YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2014. 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.)

1860: The Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” is first published in weekly serial form.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln sends his Second Annual Message to Congress, in which he calls for the abolition of slavery, and goes on to say, “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.”

1921: The Navy flies the first nonrigid dirigible to use helium; the C-7 travels from Hampton Roads, Va., to Washington, D.C.

1934: Soviet communist official Sergei M. Kirov, an associate of Josef Stalin, is assassinated in Leningrad, resulting in a massive purge.

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.

1942: Nationwide gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States.

1944: Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra is premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky.

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.

1969: The U.S. government holds its first draft lottery since World War II.

1973: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, dies in Tel Aviv at age 87.

1974: TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashes in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board are killed.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashes near Stony Point, N.Y., with the loss of its three crew members (the plane had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, N.Y.)

1989: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev meets with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

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1989: The Western Reserve Transit Authority adopts a tough new policy concerning testing for employee alcohol and drug abuse.

After a year on the market, the Howland house in which Marie Poling killed her husband, Richard, and had his body dismembered, is sold for $19,500. It had first been listed at $23,000.

Ohio state Sen. Cooper Snyder, R-Blanchester, says he is drafting a bill that would require the sterilization of women who give birth to drug-addicted babies.

1974: The Delaware Hens and Youngstown State Penguins are tied 14-14 at the half of their NCAA playoff game, but two interceptions and a fumble lead to three Hen goals and a final score of 35-14.

Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter says the city will be able to hire 39 employee for 18 months under a federal grant of $250,000 available to cities with high unemployment.

Montgomery County, Md., a Washington, D.C., suburb, will begin shipping its trash to a Smith Township landfill in Mahoning County by rail under an agreement between a local landfill operator and Browning-Ferris Industries.

1964: Golden-Age and Pepsi-Cola products officials tour a construction site of the new Trumbull County Pepsi Center.

The University of Detroit drops its intercollegiate football program, citing the continuing losses of games and money.

Three men and a women are killed in a collision of two cars near Mercer, Pa. Dead are John P. Hines, 63; Betty L. Buckley, 33; the Rev. Ernest Rumbaugh, 51, and John E. Heberling, 82,

1939: A search party of 200 scour the area of Diamond looking for 3-year-old Joseph Mordew for nearly 12 hours before his body was found in an unused cistern behind his grandparents’ home. He had disappeared while going to visit his grandparents, who lived about 50 yards away.

About 1,150 delegates to the 36th annual Ohio Hi-Y conference arrive in Youngstown from all parts of the state for the three-day session to take place in South High School.

Hiram college dedicates its new library with Dr. Kenneth I Brown, president of the college, presiding.