Years Ago

Today is Friday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2014. There are 33 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

1861: The Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union.

1905: Sinn Fein is founded in Dublin.

1922: Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gives the first public skywriting exhibition, spelling out, “Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200” over New York’s Times Square; about 47,000 calls in less than three hours resulted.

1944: The MGM movie musical “Meet Me in St. Louis,” starring Judy Garland, opens in New York, six days after its world premiere in St. Louis.

1958: Chad, Gabon and Middle Congo become autonomous republics within the French community.

1961: President John F. Kennedy dedicates the original permanent headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va.

Ernie Davis of Syracuse University becomes the first African-American to be named winner of the Heisman Trophy.

1964: The United States launches the space probe Mariner 4 on a course toward Mars. (It flew past Mars in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet.)

1979: An Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashes into a mountain in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.

1987: A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into the Indian Ocean with the loss of all 159 people aboard.

1994: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer of Akron is murdered in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.

Sixties war protester Jerry Rubin dies in Los Angeles, two weeks after being hit by a car; he was 56.

2001: Enron Corp., once the world’s largest energy trader, collapses after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backs out of an $8.4 billion takeover deal.

2004: NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol is injured, his 14-year-old son Teddy among three people killed, when a charter plane crashes during takeoff outside Montrose, Colo.

Al-Qaida in Iraq claims responsibility for slaughtering members of Iraq’s security forces in Mosul, where dozens of bodies have been found.

A gas explosion in a central Chinese coal mine kills 166 people.

2009: A conservative Iranian legislator warns his country might pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after a U.N. resolution censuring Tehran.

For a second straight day, Tiger Woods is unavailable to speak to the Florida Highway Patrol about an accident involving his SUV that sent him to the hospital with injuries.

2013: China says it has sent warplanes into its newly declared maritime air defense zone, days after the U.S., South Korea and Japan all sent flights through the airspace in defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed in the East China Sea.

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1989: On the first day of deer-hunting season in Ohio, Dave Brown, an Ohio Division of Wildlife game protector, is in the woods on the lookout for hunters who aren’t in compliance with hunting safety laws.

East Liverpool is one of two places in Ohio being considered for a nationwide earthquake monitoring system.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon bars the Ohio Department of Natural Resources from demolishing the Lake Milton Marina, owned by David and Judy Alltop. Some of the buildings are on the couple’s land and some are on land now controlled by the state.

1974: City Council adopts a safety inspection code for buses transporting school children in the city in response to complaints by some residents about students being transported on WRTA buses.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Henderson of 1365 East High St. celebrate their 68th Thanksgiving together at 1365 East High St., in a house where they have lived for 65 years.

Held over at the Eastwood Cinema, “Airport 1975,” starring Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Helen Reddy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Sid Caesar, Linda Blair and Dana Andrews.

1964: Roman Catholic churches begin using English as a replacement for some of the Latin in the Mass. Other changes include audience responses with the priest and the singing of hymns in some churches.

Interplanetary spaceship Mariner 4 is launched from Cape Kennedy, headed for Mars to take photographs when it arrives in 7 Ω months.

1939: Sanford Vanmir, 75, a resident of the Mahoning County Infirmary, is killed by a hit-skip driver on Route 45 near Ellsworth, several hours after he strayed from the home.

William H. Muldoon, vice president and general manager of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co., says trolley bus service is scheduled to begin Dec. 6 on the Mahoning Avenue and Ohio Works lines.

Youngstown’s 122 “part-time” soldiers are back at their jobs after an intensive five-day training period at Camp Perry, with more than 3,000 Ohio National Guardsmen.