Today is Thursday, Nov. 25, the 330th day of 2004. There are 36 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day. On this date in 1963, the body of President Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington

Today is Thursday, Nov. 25, the 330th day of 2004. There are 36 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day. 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 1783, the British evacuate New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War. In 1957, President Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke. In 1974, former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant dies in New York at age 65. In 1984, William Schroeder of Jasper, Ind., becomes the second man to receive a Jarvik-7 artificial heart, at Humana Hospital Audubon in Kentucky. He lives 620 days on the device. 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 1994, NATO warplanes buzz the besieged safe haven of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, but do not carry out airstrikes against rebel Serbs; Sony Corporation co-founder Akio Morita retires as chairman of the electronics giant for health reasons. In 1999, five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. Elian was one of three survivors from a boat carrying 14 Cubans that had sunk two days earlier in the Atlantic Ocean. His rescue sets off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's father in Cuba.
November 25, 1979: J. Walter Dragelevich, Trumbull County prosecutor for nine years, is named president-elect of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.
YSU Penguins trounce the South Dakota State Jackrabbits, 50-7, before 9,500 fans at Austintown Fitch stadium in the semifinal round of the NCAA Division II playoffs.
A chapter in steel-making history that began in the Mahoning Valley in 1802, the tradition of making and selling merchant iron, will come to an end in the next year or two, with an agreement between Republic Steel Corp. and the EPA that calls for Republic to dismantle its last three blast furnaces.
November 25, 1964: The Ohio House Elections-Federal Relations Committee recommends to the House that the city of Warren and Howland Township be added to the 19th Congressional District. The district covers Mahoning County and the southern tier of Trumbull County.
The Parkway Tower at 291 Park Ave. is sold by Frank Micchia to Mrs. Sylvia Copperman and Mrs. Patricia Calautti for an estimated price of $200,000.
November 25, 1954: The Mahoning County Board of Elections will hire 24 additional employees to assist in the recount of votes cast in the U.S. Senate race between Sen. Thomas A. Burke, Democrat, and Rep. George Bender, Republican.
Employees at the New Waterford Bank say four young gunmen dressed like hunters who robbed the bank of between $7,000 and $10,000 "looked like local boys." The four escaped in a green Oldsmobile "88".
A brief hailstorm strikes sections of Youngstown's South Side and forecasters predict a light covering of snow for Thanksgiving.
November 25, 1929: A survey shows there is sufficient water in the watershed of the Mahoning River to provide for a proposed canal on which large barges used on the Ohio River could travel as far north as Warren. Mosquito Creek, Eagle Creek and Lake Milton could furnish 200 million gallons per day.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCartney Stambaugh, widow of Jacob Stambaugh and one of Youngstown's oldest pioneers, dies of a heart attack in the little home at 258 W. Wood St., built in 1870 when Wood Street was on the outskirts of the city.
Farrell District Attorney Leo H. McKay invokes blue laws of 1794 to arrest three Farrell theater owners charged with keeping their theaters open on Sunday. They are fined $4 and costs and McKay says they will face arrest each week if they open on Sunday.
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