Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2011. There are 30 days left in the year.

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1824: The presidential election is turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock develops between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams ends up the winner.)

1909: The first kibbutz is founded in the Jordan Valley by a group of Jewish pioneers; the collective settlement becomes known as Degania Alef.

1941: Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approves waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands after his government rejects U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note, including a call for Japan to withdraw all of its forces from China and French Indochina.

1955: Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, is arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus; the incident sparks a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.

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1986: Trumbull County Board of Elections officials tell county commissioners that a cracked wall and leaking roof at the headquarters on Youngstown Road SE could prove dangerous to employees and costly to the county.

Mt. Union College football team loses an NCAA Division III playoff game to Augustana College, the three-time defending champion, before a sellout crowd of over 7,000 at Mt. Union Stadium. Augustana has a 46-game winning streak.

1971: U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti issues a temporary restraining order that blocks the Ohio Apportionment Board from implementing its plan for redistricting of the Ohio General Assembly.

Eighty-year-old Elmer Eugene Stockman dies in a fire apparently sparked by an overheated furnace in his Oriel-Rodgers Road home in Liberty Township.

1961: Mayor Frank R. Franko, who had threatened to fire 35 city employees in retaliation for city council’s refusal to allow Franko to award consulting contracts for three city projects, relents and issues only one firing notice, that of Traction Commissioner James Cannon.

1936: For the first time in eight years, the Retail Merchants Board has erected a giant Christmas tree on Central Square. The tree, harvested from a Negley farm, is decorated with 400 lights.

John W. Deetrick, a metallurgist and member of a prominent Youngstown family, is indicted by the Mahoning County grand jury on a charge of murder in the Aug. 1 death of his wife, Ruth.