YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 29
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2017. There are 32 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1961: Enos the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which would orbit Earth twice before returning.
1972: The coin-operated video arcade game Pong, created by Atari, debuts 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 after a battle with cancer. He was 58.
2007: Former General Motors chief executive Roger B. Smith dies in Detroit at 82.
2012: The United Nations votes overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state, a vote that came exactly 65 years after the General Assembly adopted a plan to divide Palestine into separate states for Jews and Arabs.
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1992: Youngstown Architect Raymond J. Jaminet predicts that a study will show it is feasible to convert the former Higbee building in downtown Youngstown to house various state agencies that are scattered throughout Mahoning County.
The parents of a Mineral Ridge High School football player say he was beaten after the last game of the season as part of a tradition known as Senior Hit Day. School officials says the student was struck during a personal dispute, not a hazing tradition, although neither is acceptable.
Youngstown State University keeps its football playoff hopes alive with a 23-20 victory over Villanova in front of 9,465 fans at Stambaugh Stadium. Villanova Coach Andy Talley argued that there should have been two seconds left on the clock when Villanova got a first down at the 12-yard line. Referees ruled the game over.
1977: Eighty members of Youngstown’s Hungarian community leave for Washington, D.C., where they will join thousands of marchers protesting the return of the crown of St. Stephen of Hungary to Hungary.
The Hubbard Board of Education changes its policy to allow residents to speak at school board meetings without first giving written notice. The board, however, said it will not listen to personal complaints about school personnel.
James A. Denney, a 1967 graduate of Chaney High School, opens a law office in the Realty Building after passing the Ohio bar examination.
1967:One of the Youngstown district’s historic industrial sites, the Hubbard blast furnace, will be dismantled by its owner, Valley Mould and Iron Co. The work will be done by J.D. Fowler Co., which recently dismantled Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Anna furnace in Struthers.
Ohio Bell Telephone Co. will build a $350,000, 170-foot microwave tower at North Phelps Street and Lincoln Avenue, adjacent to Youngstown State University.
“Up With People,” a program of inspiring songs about America featuring the voices of 175 young people, thrills more than 2,000 at South High Field House.
1942: The War Production Board will allow Youngstown only two of the four big Chrysler Bell air-raid sirens ordered by the board of control. Only 300 of the 5,100-pound sirens have been manufactured.
John Carlin, 17-year-old New Castle pianist and winner of his class in the young artists competition conducted by the Youngstown Symphony Society, will be a guest artist at the symphony’s next concert.