YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 29

Today is Thursday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2018. There are 32 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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

1890: The first Army-Navy football game is played at West Point, N.Y.; Navy wins, 24-0.

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.

1963: President Johnson names a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

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.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Judith Morris Delgros, 43, found guilty in Trumbull Common Pleas Court of aggravated murder in the deaths of her husband, Donald, and 5-year-old son, Christopher Styles, is sentenced to life in prison and will be eligible for parole in 30 years.

Austintown kindergarten students in the Davis Elementary classes of Sandra Metts and Kathy Callery are raising money for books by selling cookbooks that not only include their recipes, but recipes submitted by celebrities, including Grandma’s corn pudding submitted by Mr. Rogers and chocolate chip cookies from first lady Hillary Clinton.

In the 11 months since the new commissioners Frank Lordi and David Engler joined veteran Thomas Carney, eight department heads or other managers who answer to the commissioners have either quit, retired or been fired.

1978: The Higbee Co. announces it will close the McKelvey Loft stores aimed at younger buyers in its Southern Park, Eastwood Mall and Akron, Canton, Elyria and Randall Park stores.

The Youngstown Health Department agrees to contract for six months with the Mahoning County Health Department for nursing services rather than establish its own public health nursing division.

Lyle Williams, the Republican congressman-elect for the 19th Congressional District, names Struthers Mayor Anthony Centofanti, a Democrat, as the congressman’s Mahoning County aide.

1968: A high-speed crash into a tree on old Route 82 near Belmont Avenue leaves two dead and two seriously injured. Dead are Walter Pietrouski and Carl Chito Jr.

More than 300 are on hand when Catholic and Protestant clergy and faithful take to give thanks for America’s many blessings at the first ecumenical Thanksgiving worship service at St. Columba Cathedral.

TV sets, radios and stereo components stolen from Exhibitors Service Co. and valued at $30,000, are recovered in a barn on Route 616 just outside of Hubbard.

1943: Sheriff Ralph Elser receives orders from county probation officer George Hadnett to release Dominic Mallamo, confessed lottery house chief, so he can work at Ohio Valley Roofing & Painting Co.

The Sharon plant of Westinghouse Electric is building three 96-ton transformers for the Grand Coulee Dam that will take 13,600 volts from the whirling generators at the dam and step it up to 230,000 volts, which is most suitable for long-distance transmission.

Arthur Williams, a Republican who lost the Youngstown mayoral election by eight votes in a recount, has 10 days to bring action in common pleas court to contest the election.