Today is Tuesday, Nov. 25, the 330th day of 2008. There are 36 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 25, the 330th day of 2008. There are 36 days left in the year. On this date in 1908, the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor is published.

In 1758, during 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 1881, Pope John XXIII is born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy. In 1947, movie studio executives meeting in New York agree to blacklist the “Hollywood Ten” who’d been cited for contempt of Congress the day before. In 1957, President Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke. In 1963, the body of President Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

November 25, 1983: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors reaches a final agreement on a joint venture with a Mexican company to produce automotive wiring assemblies, primarily for sale in Mexico.

In a move that appeared to be designed to foil any Beirut-style bombing, the Secret Service tightens security around the White House, parking seven sand-filled dump trucks at five entrances to the grounds.

Shoppers mob area stores on the Friday after Thanksgiving, providing a strong kick-off to the holiday shopping season.

November 25, 1968: Some 250 Lawrence County bank employees meet at a banking seminar that teaches them how to prevent bank robberies and what to do in the event of a robbery.

Richard C. Rowe, 26, swims to safety after kicking out the rear window of his car to escape as it sinks in the Shenango River. Rowe’s car skidded on railroad tracks at Water Avenue and Ellsworth Street, then went over a 25-foot embankment and into the river.

Dr. Earl Young, president of the Youngstown Board of Education, saying the Youngstown Federation of Teachers is trying to unionize the city schools staff, likens the YFT to a fruit fly or mosquito that has to be brushed away all year long.

November 25, 1958: The board of directors of the Youngstown Players tours its new 500-seat Playhouse at Glenwood and Glenaven avenues before accepting the building from the general contractor, Katzman Construction Co.

Some 3,000 Mahoning County volunteers go door to door in Mahoning County in the 1958 March for Muscular Dystrophy.

Graduation ceremonies are held for 15 Indian engineers who have spent a year studying steelmaking techniques at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and taking courses at Youngstown University.

November 25, 1933: The 856 jobless women listed on Mahoning County’s relief rolls are not being ignored under the civil works program. Ray Noble, county relief chairman, is asking city, village and township officials to submit job plans for out-of-work stenographers, nurses, clerks, domestic workers and bookkeepers.

Steel output in the Youngstown district will be at 35 percent, with 29 of 83 open hearths in operation.

At the end of the first week of Civil Works Administration projects in Youngstown, more than $30,000 is distributed to 2,718 workers who have been employed on 30 projects.