Today is Monday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2002. There are 36 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2002. There are 36 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, the body of President Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1758, in the French and Indian War, the British capture Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh. In 1835, American industrialist Andrew Carnegie is born in Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1881, Pope John XXIII is born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy. In 1957, President Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke. In 1973, Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a bloodless military coup. In 1974, former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant dies in New York at age 65. In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupts as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese reveal that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. In 1987, Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, dies in office at age 65. In 1990, Poland held its first popular presidential election. (Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, who received a plurality of votes, won a runoff the following month.)
November 25, 1977: A Colum-biana family of six escapes from their burning home at 18 E. Woodland Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flohr and their four children are released after being treated for smoke inhalation at Northern Columbiana County Community Hospital, Salem.
The old Walmo Elementary School on Maitland Lane near New Castle will be converted into a meeting place for the elderly and retirees of Neshannock Township.
The Carter administration is considering loans to make domestic steel plants more efficient as part of its five-point plan to reduce imports.
November 25, 1962: The North Side home of "Cadillac" Charlie Cavallaro attracts two kinds of visitors: police and state officials examining the rubble for clues to the explosion that killed Cavallaro and a son, and hundreds of curiosity seekers who stand in the street craning their necks or tromp through neighboring yards to get a glimpse of the rubble behind the house.
The Youngstown area receives $1.6 million under the accelerated public works program since its inception a month earlier, the Area Redevelopment Administration announces.
The Mahoning County Chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America has some 3,000 volunteers out ringing doorbells between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. to raise funds for the medical crusade against he mysterious crippling disease.
November 25, 1952: The Youngstown Citizens Council, a group of civic leaders whose goal is to study and promote ways of improving the community, adopts a constitution and elects 21 members to its board of trustees at a meeting in the Butler Art Institute.
Approximately 25 million gallons of sewage and industrial waste are being dumped daily into the Mahoning River by the municipalities of Youngstown, Struthers and Campbell, according to a report given to members of city council.
Youngstown Third Ward Councilman Anthony B. Flask charges that William G. Evans, clerk of municipal courts, "strayed far out of bounds" and played politics in limiting increases of two of his employees to $10 a month in order to give Byron Leedy, chief deputy, $75.
November 25, 1927: John Loney, 78, retired contractor and Civil War veteran, former commander of Tod Post, GAR, dies in Youngstown Hospital.
Hundreds of football fans who were kept away from the Rayen-South Thanksgiving Day game by threatening weather, hear the play-by-play over WKBN, with Vindicator Sports Editor Frank B. Ward doing the honors. The South gridders prevailed over Rayen, 12-0 in the 17th edition of the holiday contest.
Mahoning County Juvenile Court launches an intensive campaign to break up liquor drinking among young girls and to arrest the men who furnished them with booze.