YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2015. There are 37 days left in the year.

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1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

1865: Mississippi becomes the first Southern state to enact laws that came to be known as “Black Codes” aimed at limiting the rights of newly freed blacks; other states of the former Confederacy soon follow.

1963: Jack Ruby shoots and mortally wounds Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television.

1974: The bone fragments of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid are discovered by scientists in Ethiopia; the skeletal remains are nicknamed “Lucy.”

2005: A suicide bomber strikes outside a hospital south of Baghdad while U.S. troops are handing out candy and food to children; the blast kills some 30 people.

2010: A jury in Austin convicts former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, on charges he’d illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. (DeLay’s convictions were overturned on appeal.)

2014: A grand jury in St. Louis County, Mo., decides against indicting Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown; the decision enrages protesters who set fire to buildings and cars and loot businesses in the area where Brown had been fatally shot.

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1990: About 75 anti-abortion demonstrators and 60 abortion-rights advocates face off at the Mahoning Women’s Clinic, but there are no violent confrontations or arrests.

Animal-rights activists, some wearing raccoon, rabbit and leopard suits, gather on the busiest shopping day of the year to protest fur sales at Kaufmann’s department store in Boardman.

Evangel Baptist Church, at 5248 Southern Blvd., completes its yearlong celebration of the church centennial.

1975: Struthers police are investigating a shotgun shooting that damaged the car of 2nd Ward Councilman Robert Carcelli while it was parked in his garage at 594 Lincoln St.

Negotiations between the city and Mahoning County over new water rates break off, with the dispute apparently headed back to court.

Dr. Richard D. Murray’s Medart Building on Glenwood Avenue is the setting for a gala reception for top officials of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine hosted by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Mahoning County Medical Society.

1965: Seven young men from the New Castle, Pa., area enlist in a six-month training program in New Castle’s 1st Motor Transport Maintenance Co. After six months at Parris Island, S.C., and Camp Lejeune, N.C., the men will return to New Castle to serve in the Marine Corps Reserve.

State highway patrolmen, deputy sheriffs and city policemen plan to be out in force over the holiday weekend to prevent a high accident toll.

McDonald Board of Education votes to put a $750,000 bond issue on the May primary ballot. The money is needed to build an addition to the high school.

St. Elizabeth Hospital will pay $162,000 to the family of Daniel Slifka, 16, of Youngstown, who was blinded and paralyzed by an overdose of morphine administered by a student nurse.

1940: Dr. Harry D. Gideonse, president of Brooklyn College, will speak on “Education and the Preservation of Democracy” at the annual meeting of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce.

Edward McQuillan, Struthers Draft Board clerk, receives a card from Fort Knox signed by Frank Zarisky, John Botsko and Dan McAllister proclaiming, “We’re in the Army now.”

The Butler Art Institute has 10 artists and craftsmen doing demonstrations to mark National Art Week. One of them, A.H. Vaughn of Salem, shows how etching is done.