YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2015. There are 38 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: Frederick County, Md., becomes the first Colonial American entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.

1804: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, is born in Hillsboro, N.H.

1889: The first jukebox debuts in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)

1903: Enrico Caruso makes his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.”

1936: Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce, is first published.

1945: Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, expires by day’s end.

1959: The musical “Fiorello!,” starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opens on Broadway.

1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims Nov. 25 a day of national mourning after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1971: The People’s Republic of China is seated in the U.N. Security Council.

1980: Some 2,600 people are killed by a series of earthquakes that devastate southern Italy.

1995: Movie director Louis Malle (“Pretty Baby,” “Atlantic City,” “My Dinner with Andre”) dies in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 63.

2005: In Iraq, gunmen break into the home of a senior Sunni Arab leader and kill him, three of his sons and a son-in-law.

2010: North Korea bombards South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island with artillery fire, killing four people and raising tensions between the two countries.

2014: Israel’s Cabinet approved a bill to legally define the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry dies at age 78.

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1990: The Saturn Corp. selects Jim Pace as the dealer for GM’s new nameplate in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys. He will build a Saturn dealership next to his Pontiac dealership in Niles.

CSC Industries, parent of Copperweld Steel Co., is seeking a tax abatement for a planned $26 million expansion and renovation project in Champion Township.

Advertisement: “Kids: Head to toe, Bernie Kosar watches you grow.” Bernie Kosar growth chart, $2.99 at Phar Mor, while supplies last. Register to win a Bernie Kosar autographed football, no purchase necessary.

1975: Youngstown State University announces that it will begin occupying the William F. Maag Jr. Library on Dec. 15 and should move into the new School of Education Building (the former Elm Street School) by Dec. 1.

Mahoning Valley mayors will meet with U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney to make the case that the federal government should invest at least as much in beleaguered U.S. cities as it does on foreign aid.

The New York Times reports on a secret study by the Stanford Research Institute for the National Football League that shows that football is the most dangerous game played anywhere, with the NFL’s 1,000 players from 1969 through 1972 suffering 1,274 injuries.

1965: Dr. David A. Belinky, Mahoning Country coroner, is presented an award at the Mayor’s Safety Committee meeting for his work in traffic safety.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. celebrates its 65th birthday.

Toys for Tots sets a goal of collecting Christmas toys for 10,000 underprivileged children.

1940: Mrs. Perry B. Owen, outstanding in civic, church and social affairs, dies of a heart ailment at her Wick Avenue residence.

Joseph Smith, WPA projects engineer, reports that runways, taxi strips and driveways at the municipal airport in Vienna are finished and will be open to the public to drive on during a one-day open house.

A wave of shoppers sweeps through downtown Youngstown as holiday shopping begins. Youngstown Railway reports 3,749 people used the free ride coupons that appeared in The Vindicator.