Years Ago
Today is Saturday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2011. There are 35 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1789: This is a day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1842: The founders of the University of Notre Dame arrive at the school’s present-day site near South Bend, Ind.
1933: A judge in New York decides the James Joyce book “Ulysses” was not obscene and could be published in the United States.
1941: U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivers a note to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, proposing an agreement for “lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area.” The same day, a Japanese naval task force consisting of six aircraft carriers leaves the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii.
1943: During World War II, the HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American soldiers, is hit by a German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men are killed.
1950: China enters the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.
1973: President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court that she’d accidentally caused part of the 181/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
VINDICATOR FILES
1986: Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro’s ad hoc advisory committee is recommending that Youngstown adopt comprehensive new development standards governing zoning, architecture and landscaping downtown.
Dr. Terry Buss, director of YSU’s Center for Urban Studies, says Daniel R. DeSantis, director of the Warren Redevelopment and Planning Corp., has created confidence in Warren’s downtown, helping bring occupancy from 65 percent to 95 percent.
The Mill Creek Park Commission accepts a deed for 51 acres of land in the Tippecanoe Road area contiguous to the park from Dr. Anthony M. Pannozzo.
1971: A new night bus service of the Western Reserve Transit Authority is used only moderately by shoppers who flocked downtown for Friday night shopping after Thanksgiving. Forty-seven riders took advantage of store-to-door bus service.
Republicans file an expected suit in the Ohio Supreme Court seeking to block the Democratic reapportionment plan and enjoin 1972 elections until after a new apportionment plan is adopted.
Bruce Murphy, 19-year-old son of a former Struthers councilman, escapes a fusillade of bullets that blew out the windows of his car. Police arrest four men, who are members of the Chosen Few motorcycle gang, a half mile way.
1961: The Mahoning County Medical Society is making plans for distribution of the Sabin oral polio vaccine at 18 stations throughout the county on two dates, Nov. 30 and Dec. 2. The 150,000 doses cost 50 cents a piece, but no one will be refused for inability to pay.
Ohio State University trounces Michigan, 50-20, with one of the Buckeye touchdowns scored by Warren sophomore Paul Warfield.
An 18-inch high-pressure East Ohio Gas Co. pipeline that feeds the Youngstown district explodes near Cadiz, but the company bypassed the damaged area so that service was not disrupted.
1936: Vandals break a window to enter South High School and make a mess of it, strewing books and papers throughout and breaking into the cafeteria, where food stored in the refrigerator was lost.
Howard Stilson, assistant postmaster, says that “bug” operators are required to file Social Security forms for their numbers pick-up men, just as any employer must.
Frank A. Sebring, one of seven brothers who were pioneers in the pottery industry, dies in Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, at 71. He was also one of the founders of Sebring.