Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2013. There are 38 days left in the year.

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1765: Frederick County, Md., becomes the first colonial entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.

1804: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, is born in Hillsboro, N.H.

1889: The first jukebox makes its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.

1903: Enrico Caruso makes his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.”

1910: American-born physician Hawley Harvey Crippen is hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for murdering his wife, Cora. (Crippen’s mistress, Ethel Le Neve, is acquitted in a separate trial of being an accessory.)

1936: Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce, is first published.

1943: During World War II, U.S. forces seize control of Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.

1959: The musical “Fiorello!,” starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opens on Broadway.

1963: The classic British science- fiction series “Doctor Who” premieres on BBC Television, starring William Hartnell as the first incarnation of the time-traveling title character.

1971: The People’s Republic of China is seated in the U.N. Security Council.

1980: Some 2,600 people are killed by a series of earthquakes that devastates southern Italy.

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1988: Christopher W. Magourias of Boardman is charged with aggravated murder after being implicated in the stabbing death of YSU student Kenmore Drake by Brian Blevins, who pleaded guilty to murder in Drake’s death.

Federal and local law enforcement officials charge a former Youngstown police officer with distributing cocaine following a six-month investigation into Mahoning Valley drug trafficking.

With just six weeks remaining before its deadline, a group is seeking to raise $80,000 to purchase the Harriet Taylor Upton house in Warren.

1973: Railroad engineer Raymond Wilcox, 39, of Meadville, Pa., is killed when half of a 28-car Erie-Lackawanna Railway freight derails near Windham.

Two Youngstown men are arrested by Pittsburgh police after they attempt to rob a drug store that was under police surveillance for people with bogus prescriptions.

Chaney’s Ron Calcagni and Matt Cavanaugh and East’s Ed Barnes reign as City Series champions in major statistics during the 1973 season.

1963: Youngstown area Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox churches and Jewish synagogues hold services following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan leaves Youngstown Municipal Airport on a Youngstown Airways flight for Washington, D.C., where he will pay his respects at the White House and attend the funeral of President Kennedy.

Dr. Howard W. Jones reports that Youngstown University has received an anonymous $1 million donation to its building program, which already has $3 million.

1938: Victor D. Gettys, 39, radio engineer in charge of the police radio station WPDG, is in serious condition at the South Side hospital after a fall of nearly 60 feet from an antenna pole atop No. 8 Fire Station, Market and Evergreen avenues.

Dr. Carl Watson, WPA administrator for Ohio, warns that a WPA appropriation for a Youngstown airport may be lost if the city becomes embroiled in another wrangle over the airport site.

Lachlan MacLeay, president of the Mississippi Valley Association, says a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal is an essential project for national defense. H. Ross Packard and J. Cameron Argetsinger of Youngstown are directors of the association.