Years Ago

Today is Friday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2011. There are 36 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1783: The British evacuate New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.

1881: Pope John XXIII is born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli at Sotto il Monte, Italy.

1908: The first issue of The Christian Science Monitor is published.

1940: The cartoon character Woody Woodpecker makes his debut in the animated short “Knock Knock.”

1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke.

1961: The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, is commissioned.

1963: The body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery; his widow, Jacqueline, lights an “eternal flame” at the gravesite.

1973: Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a bloodless military coup.

1999: Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida, setting off an international custody battle.

2002: President George W. Bush signs legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and appoints Tom Ridge to be its head.

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1986: Two Ohio companies, the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. of Youngstown and The Limited Inc. of Columbus, launch a hostile takeover of Carter Hawley Hale, the nation’s 12th largest general merchandise retailer in a deal valued at $3.8 billion.

Two of three Poland Township trustees hold a special meeting at which the township’s 22 full-time and part-time employees are given 4 percent pay raises. The third trustee, Nick Jeswald, said the trustees knew he was going to be out of town and should have waited till the next regular meeting.

The Youngstown Playhouse sets an annual campaign goal of $75,000.

1971: A threatened strike by members of Service Employees Union 627, which represents most workers at North and South Side hospitals, is averted after members ratify a new contract calling for increases of 25 cents an hour.

Danny Murtaugh resigns as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and is replaced by Bill Virdon.

Two state representatives, Robert Netzley, a Republican, and Patrick A. Sweeney, a Democrat, are proposing a tax reform package that would allow county-wide income taxes but eliminate existing municipal income taxes.

1961: Gangland executioners silence Louis Moses, a New Castle area burglar with underworld ties, who has been implicated in thefts totaling $90,000. His body was found by boys hunting near Taylorsville with four bullet wounds.

Burglars use a conveyor belt at the state store in the Austin Village Plaza in Warren to load a stolen truck with 40 cases of top-shelf liquor valued at $2,400.

Building contractor Charles Pitts and his son, William, lose $5,000 when burglars break into the son’s South Side home and cart away a 100 pound safe.

1936: Mahoning County Dog Warden George Baum warns owners to keep their dogs from running loose unless they have been treated with rabies antitoxin after a Youngstown man and two women were bitten by a rabid dog. The dog was killed.

Otis O. Cobb, 28, of Youngstown, driver of a runaway truck in Pittsburgh, chose death by steering his truck away from a car holding four people and into a train. His helper, Joseph Zdobinski, 45, also died.