This day in history

Today is Monday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2010. There are 32 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1864: A Colorado militia kills at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.

1910: British explorer Robert F. Scott’s ship Terra Nova sets sail from New Zealand, carrying Scott’s expedition toward Antarctica on what turns out to be a futile — as well as fatal — race to reach the South Pole first.

1929: Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd, pilot Bernt Balchen, radio operator Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinney make the first airplane flight over the South Pole.

1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43.

1990: The U.N. Security Council votes to authorize military action to free Kuwait if Iraq does not withdraw its occupying troops and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991.

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1985: The FBI believes John “Peanuts” Tronolone of South Florida is the acting boss of Cleveland organized crime, following the death of James T. Licavoli in a federal prison.

The Youngstown Hospital Association is in robust economic health and can afford to give workers higher salaries and improved fringe benefits, one of its unions claims.

Eager holiday shoppers line up outside the doors of department stores at the Southern Park Mall on the day after Thanksgiving, awaiting the opening at 8 a.m., two hours earlier than normal.

1970: A 16-year-old West Side youth who stole 13 1969 and 1970 model automobiles from downtown Youngstown parking lots over a three-month period, said owners made it easy for him by leaving their keys in the cars. The boy said he never abused the cars during his joy rides and even washed some before abandoning them in Calvary or Tod cemetery.

Playing at the Southern Park Cinema, Albert Finney as the title character in a new musical, “Scrooge.”

1960: Incoming Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis names G. Stanley Kreiler to be his chief deputy.

Austintown Township trustees end their contract with the Volunteer Firemen’s Association and demand an accounting of all fund raising activities over a six year period during which approximately $25,000 was raised.

Youngstown Mayor Frank R. Franko recommends that City Council amend the smoke control ordinance to allow Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. three years to experiment with oxygen jet converters on its open hearth furnaces.

1935: East High defeats Chaney 19-6 before 5,000 fans at South Field, putting Chaney in a tie with Rayen and South for the City title.

Sixteen of the cards attached to 647 toy balloons released by Vindicator carrier boys are returned a week after their release, the farthest being reported from western Maryland, a distance of 150 miles.