Today is Saturday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2002. There are 31 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2002. There are 31 days left in the year. On this date in 1782, the United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill is born at Blenheim Palace. In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde dies in Paris at age 46. In 1936, London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, is destroyed in a fire. In 1939, the Russo-Finnish War begins as Soviet troops invade Finland. In 1962, U Thant of Burma is elected secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold. In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados becomes independent.
November 30, 1977: Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., vice president of the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp and owner of the San Francisco 49ers, resigns as a trustee of Youngstown State University, citing the press of business. He delivers his resignation personally to Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes.
Alfred Solis of E. Lucius Ave., Youngstown, a meter reader for the East Ohio Gas Co., uses cardiopulmonary resuscitation as he had seen it on television and saved the life of an 11-month-old East Palestine child who had an obstruction in her throat.
Lawrence County Commissioner Frank Vitril charges that the majority membership on the commissioner board is moving without court approval on a new $4.4 million courthouse construction project.
November 30, 1962: "Several dozen public officials I knew, including policemen, were mixed up in bribery," former Youngstown Police Chief Paul H. Cress testifies during a suit brought by a Center Street tavern owner against The Vindicator.
Martin Gail, manager of the Welles Family Store, 609 N. Garland Ave., is found guilty of violating the Sunday opening law and fined $25 and costs. He was found guilty of sell toys and other nonessentials on a Sunday. The complaint was filed by the Downtown Board of Trade.
Federal, state and city liquor agents break up a South Side moonshine operation. They confiscate a copper drum, copper tubing and 10 gallons of "white lightning" from a home on W. Woodland Ave.
November 30, 1952: Carolyn Hargate Evans of 22 N. Richview Ave. is signed as a member of "The Chordettes," the quartet that rose to fame on Arthur Godfrey's radio and television shows. She will be leaving for rehearsals in New York but doesn't know when her first appearance on the Godfrey show will be.
President Truman goes through his traditional pregame ceremony of wishing both the Army and Navy football teams well before their faceoff. He simultaneously shakes the hands of Army Captain Al Paulekas and Navy Captain John Gurski. Paulekas is from Farrell, Pa., and Gurski from Ford City, Pa. Navy defeated Army, 7-0, before 102,000 fans.
The season's first generous snowfall hits the Youngstown district, causing accidents in which six persons are injured. Bus schedules throughout the city are snarled.
November 30, 1927: The joint trial of 12 men on charges of manslaughter in the death of Milton Township farmhand Tony Popo comes to a halt when one of the defendants is confined to his home with tonsillitis. Judge David G. Jenkins says the men will now be tried three at a time.
A Trumbull County Common Pleas jury returns a verdict of $500 in favor of Frank Jackson Jr., who accused former Warren policeman John E. Barnes of assault.
At a meeting of the Disarmament Commission in Geneva, Soviet Russia proposes the complete abolition of all land, marine and air forces. The sweeping proposal causes a sensation at the conference.