Years ago

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2009. There are 36 days left in the year. On this date in 1783, the British evacuate New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the British capture Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh. In 1881, Pope John XXIII is born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy. In 1908, the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor is published. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke. In 1963, the body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 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 Ronald Reagan reveals that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. In 2002, President George W. Bush signs legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and appoints Tom Ridge to be its chief.

November 25, 1984: Evangelist Greg Morgan of Toronto is the special guest at the first service at the new $1.3 million sanctuary of Calvary Assembly of God on Glenwood Avenue.

The president of the Mahoning County Bar Association and a state legislator suggest a study aimed at reorganizing Youngstown Municipal and Mahoning County courts.

November 25, 1969: The Mahoning County Young Republican Club honors Mayor-elect Jack C. Hunter and other Republicans whose victories gave the GOP control of city hall for the first time since partisan elections were established in 1943, including councilmen Emmanuel Catsoules, William M. Bryant, William Shranko and William Wade.

More than 200 boys apply to join the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in nine city schools, says Ken Boldt, field director for the Scouts.

A Campbell man is in satisfactory condition in South Side Hospital after being mistaken for a robber and shot in the chest by the operator of Breadland Grocery on Overland Avenue minutes after a gunman robbed the store.

November 25, 1959: One gunman is wounded and captured with three others when police break up a robbery at the Western and Southern Life Insurance office in Steubenville. The Cleveland men were driving a car stolen earlier from the Sears parking lot on Market Street in Youngstown.

Happy Youngstown steelworkers pick up their first pay since the beginning of the national steel strike four months earlier.

St. John’s Episcopal Church and St. Joseph Catholic Church adjacent to Youngstown University are filled with students, faculty and staff for Thanksgiving services.

November 25, 1934: A Cleveland bank calculates that the average Ohio family of five that has an income of $2,400 a year will pay about $25 over the course of the year for the state’s new 3 percent sales tax.

Six clerks are being paid $5 a day to maintain a 24-hour guard on the vault holding ballots awaiting recount in the Mahoning County prosecutor’s race. So far, security has cost the county $600 and it is likely to cost another $300 before the recount is complete.