Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2014. There are 34 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day.

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1839: The American Statistical Association is founded in Boston.

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

1910: New York’s Pennsylvania Station officially opens.

1924: The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — takes place in New York.

1939: The play “Key Largo,” by Maxwell Anderson, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

1942: During World War II, the Vichy French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

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1989: U.S. Sen Arlen Specter, R-Pa., tours the Lawrence County jail and discusses what can be done to fight drugs, terrorism and crime in general.

Creegan Co. in downtown Steubenville continues to create animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer under a contract reached with Robert L. May, who created the character for Montgomery Ward Co. 50 years ago.

A Leavittsburg man who said it took five visits to the city prosecutor before he was permitted to file an assault charge against former Safety-Service Director Stephen Papalas drops the charge, apparently in exchange for having $1,500 in medical bills paid.

1974: Arsonists hurl Molotov cocktails into occupied houses in Hillman Street and Republic Avenue, frightening occupants and causing some fire damage.

A 19-year-old coed is captured running from a room in the old Rayen School in which a fire had been started using a flammable liquid. Paul Cress, head of YSU security, says the girl admitted starting fires Oct. 23-24 and Nov. 13.

Carrie Blice, 63, struck by a car while crossing Oak Hill Avenue after visiting her husband at South Side Hospital, dies in the hospital.

1964: Liza Minelli, Judy Garland’s daughter, announces her engagement to Australian singer Peter Allen.

1939: Burglars break into the Youngstown Board of Education office on West Wood Street and spend hours burning open a safe and escape with only $50, leaving behind a certified negotiable check for $2,470.

Movie star Jackie Coogan arrives in Youngstown from Hollywood to appear in the play, “What a Life,” at the Park Theater.

Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who is willing to run for president if enough Republicans want him, has been making speeches through the farm belt describing the Republican Party as the “peace party” that will keep the United States out of the European war.