Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2011. There are 34 days left in the year.

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1901: The U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.

1910: New York’s Pennsylvania Station officially opens.

1970: Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, is slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.

2005: Doctors in France perform the world’s first partial face transplant on a woman disfigured by a dog bite; Isabelle Dinoire receives the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman in a 15-hour operation.

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1986: Benny Lee Adams is sentenced to 33 to 75 years in prison for kidnapping, raping and robbing a Boardman woman. Adams’ defense lawyer, Martin Emrich, suggests the sentence may constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services is investigating allegations that a Warren Township trustee unilaterally authorized the payment of unemployment benefits to the township’s ex-police chief and his son who were fired for misconduct.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. and Joseph Hardy, president of Weatherbee Coats, work out a proposal for 140 striking workers to return to their jobs in exchange for a pledge that their pay will not be cut by more than 5 percent.

1971: Coach Mike Durina’s Hillman gridders finish their second undefeated season at 6-0-1, to win a share of the city junior high championship.

The death toll on U.S. highways climbs to 340 as the 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday period moves into its third day.

Dr. Ennis P. Thorne, chaplain of the Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital and former pastor of the old Hirmrod Avenue Baptist Church, will be honored at a reception marking his retirement.

1961: Bernard Scharsu Jr., 54, president of Youngstown Sporting Goods Co. and a prominent booster of Mahoning Valley sports, dies of a heart attack.

Edward Kavanaugh, executive vice president of Wheatland Tube Co., announces $4 million in expansion and improvements of the plant.

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority awards contracts totaling $1.5 million for construction of 150 low-rental housing units in Campbell.

1936: Mrs. Wilber B. Young, 1349 Ohio Ave., gets a Thanksgiving Day surprise when she opens a small package she received in the mail and finds a diamond horseshoe pin she had lost d0wntown 10 years earlier. She advertised widely at the time and offered a $100 reward. There was no note of explanation.

A motorist whose car struck the prone body of Henry Reardon, 39, in Market Street and dragged it 100 feet is being sought while the coroner tries to determine whether Reardon died of injuries from a fall on the ice or being struck by the car.

Rayen School gridders enter their 24th Thanksgiving Day game against South as underdogs, but emerge victorious, 13-0.