YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 24

Today is Friday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2017. There are 37 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1784: Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, is born in Orange County, Va.

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

1917: Nine members of the Milwaukee police department and two civilians are killed when a bomb explodes inside a police station.

1947: A group of writers, producers and directors who became known as the “Hollywood Ten” is cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry.

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

1991: Rock singer Freddie Mercury dies in London at age 45 of AIDS-related pneumonia.

2007: A fast-moving wildfire pushed by Santa Ana winds races through the canyons and mountains of Malibu, Calif., for the second time in little more than a month, destroying some 50 homes.

2012: Fire races through a garment factory in Bangladesh that supplied major retailers in the West, killing 112 people.

2016: Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America’s most beloved television moms in “The Brady Bunch,” dies in Los Angeles at age 82.

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1992: About 500 people jam the Chaney auditorium, most opposed to Superintendent Alfred Tutela’s proposed $8.6 million in cuts to Youngstown City Schools’ budget.

Former Phar-Mor President Michael I. Monus, who filed for bankruptcy protection, has $22 million in assets and $19 million in liabilities for a net worth of $2.9 million. Among the assets is the 14,000 square-foot, $1.2 million home in Vienna Township.

1977: Youngstown City Council clears the way to join the Steel Communities Coalition, but questions paying $3,500 in dues. Council refuses to transfer $7,000 from the Water Department to buy a new car for the use of Mayor-elect J. Phillip Richley.

U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-Youngstown, chairman of the Congressional Steel Caucus, says he’s been told the Carter administration hopes to cut foreign steel imports by 50 percent.

Bill Jones, who operates a bookstore in downtown Warren, has written his own book, “The Natural Way to Good Vision Without Glasses or Exercise Your Way to Visual Health.”

1967: New gold stage curtains are installed at Stambaugh Auditorium in time for holiday performances, part of a $100,000 renovation project.

Seven prisoners in the East Liverpool City Jail ate Thanksgiving dinner courtesy of Municipal Judge Samuel Cheroff, a practice since 1960. The meals are served by a restaurant.

Anna Grimm, seventh- grade geography teacher at Center Street School, Newton Falls, is chosen as the city’s Teacher of the Year by fellow teachers and school administrators.

1942: The Youngstown division of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. adds 10 production records “that will eventually lead to Axis destruction,” according to the War Department.

Youngstowners who take Thanksgiving trips by rail this week will get a taste of the impending travel crush that is expected at Christmas.

Dyson Metal Manufacturing Co., one of Youngstown’s newest war industries, expects to go into production next week, say Atty. Clyde Dyson, head of the firm.