YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2014. There are 29 days left in the year.

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1814: French author Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, Comte de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade, dies in an insane asylum at age 74 after a lifetime of notoriety for his sexual perversities and writings.

1823: President James Monroe outlines his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

1859: Militant abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry in October.

Artist Georges-Pierre Seurat is born in Paris.

1927: Ford Motor Co. unveils its Model A automobile that replaces its Model T.

1939: New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field (later LaGuardia Airport) goes into operation as an airliner from Chicago lands at one minute past midnight.

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1989: Ladbroke Group LTD of London, which owns and operates the Meadows, a harness racing track in Washington County, Pa., proposes opening an off-track betting parlor in the Westgate Plaza in Union Township.

Tamco Distributors Inc. is spending $3.5 million to open a warehouse at the Ross Industrial Park in Youngstown that would create 250 jobs.

1974: A wild late-autumn snowstorm dumps 8 to 12 inches of snow on the Youngstown area, closing all schools and scores of businesses.

A crowd of only 24,559 sees the Cleveland Browns defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 7-0, in Cleveland, the smallest crowd for a Browns home game since 1956.

1964: Dave Beck, Teamsters Union head, is granted parole and probation after serving two years of a five-year sentence for income tax fraud.

Dr. Hugh Bennett, president of the local Heart Association, announces the group has changed its name to the Heart Association of Eastern Ohio.

Coach Paul Bryant is elated as Alabama’s Crimson Tide is named 1964 college football champions by the Associated Press.

1939: Edward F. Corll, a 24-year-old Canfield man who ran a matrimonial bureau in the name of “Appleton Beemster,” says he is retiring from the business and going into advertising. He never completed a marriage deal between his clients, but says there is one likely marriage “on the fire.”

Joanne Redmond, 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Redmond, 145 Upland Ave., Youngstown, is flown to Philadelphia and will be operated on at Temple University Hospital for removal of an open safety pin she swallowed.

Hostesses for the Totem Club dance at the Youngs-town Country Club are Misses Margaret Gessner, Lillian Kramer, Doris Cavanaugh, Marjorie Phibbs and Jane Milburn. Shy Lockson and his orchestra play.