Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2014. There are 32 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1314: King Philip IV of France dies; he is succeeded by his eldest son, Louis X.

1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England’s King Henry VIII, dies.

1864: A Colorado militia kills at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.

1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies in Brussels before he could complete his opera “Turandot.” (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)

1947: The U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

1961: Enos the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits Earth twice before returning.

1964: The U.S. Roman Catholic Church institutes sweeping changes in the liturgy, including the partial use of English instead of Latin.

1972: The coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, makes its debut at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.

1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43.

1986: Actor Cary Grant dies in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.

2001: George Harrison, the “quiet Beatle,” dies in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.

2004: President George W. Bush picks Carlos Gutierrez, the chief executive officer of cereal giant Kellogg Co., to be commerce secretary.

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1989: Two deer, likely spooked on the first day of hunting season, crash through the front doors of the Salem Campus of Kent State University, brush past a few students and crash through a window to leave.

A 9-mm semiautomatic pistol stolen from an unmarked Youngstown police car is found at a South Side house by police conducting a search of the Warren Avenue residence for drugs.

Bettie Krauss, the Howland woman who founded Aid to Appalachia, says the 23rd annual collection of food, clothing and Christmas toys for Kentucky hill people will be her last. At its peak, Aid to Appalachia served 7,000 people a year.

1974: General Motors’ Lordstown Vega/Astre assembly line faces another week or two of layoffs in January, reflecting the declining auto market. About 5,000 idled workers will be back on the job for two weeks before shutting down again.

Two sisters, Agnes Rokop, 54, and Stela Rivalsky, 57, are beaten and robbed by a young tough outside Abbas Food Market on McGuffey Road.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge David F. McLain signs a temporary restraining order barring the finalization of almost all annexations in Trumbull County until the constitutionality of the state’s annexation law is clarified by higher courts.

1964: The 38-year-old Palace Theater closes its doors at midnight and wreckers move in to remove the structure. Stephen Baytos and Associates plan a $3 million entertainment, shopping and apartment complex for the site.

The 24th Masonic District’s Past Masters’ Association, elects Arthur Swanson president at its 29th annual meeting.

Pope Paul VI gets ready to travel to India, and elaborate steps are taken to protect the pontiff until his return.

1939: An unexpected Christmas gift amounting to $154,000 will be distributed before the holidays to 12,266 people in the Youngstown area. The money represents additional unemployment benefits recalculated under a new formula.

“All the ‘ism’ movements in the United States are inspired, directed and partly financed by the foreign powers they represent,” John C. Metcalfe, a Chicago newspaperman, tells 300 people at the Junior Chamber of Commerce “Bosses’ Night” at the Hotel Ohio.

Ray G. Hagstrom, chairman of the city committee of the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Association, says about 3 million Easter Seals will be distributed to Mahoning County residents.