YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Nov. 16, the 320th day of 2015. There are 45 days left in the year.

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1776: British troops capture Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.

1960: Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable dies in Los Angeles at age 59.

1993: President Bill Clinton signs the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, making it harder for government to interfere with religious practices.

2005: Hoping to reverse the deterioration of pension plans, the Senate votes 97-2 to force companies to make up underfunding and live up to promises made to employees. (The bill has yet to become law.)

2010: President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living service member from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to receive the nation’s top military award.

2014: The Islamic State group releases a video featuring a masked militant standing over the severed head of Peter Kassig, a former U.S. soldier-turned-aid worker in Syria; President Barack Obama denounces the killing as one of “pure evil.”

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1990: The Warren-based 192nd Quartermaster Petroleum Co. Detachment 2 of the U.S. Army Reserve is being activated in the wake of tension in the Middle East. Sixty-six Northeast Ohio reservists must report to the Kunkel Reserve Center south of Warren.

The Senate Ethics Committee’s special counsel says he found no evidence linking political contributions to Sen. John Glenn of Ohio and favors Glenn granted to the donor, savings and loan tycoon Charles Keating.

A 28-year-old South Side Youngstown man surrenders 21/2 hours after barricading himself in his mother’s home and holding police at bay, often by pointing a 22-caliber rifle at them. He was booked into city jail on charges of discharging a firearm and aggravated menacing.

1975: On the 75th anniversary of its founding, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is a thriving, profitable, robust memorial to James A. Campbell. The company furnishes some 13,000 to 14,000 jobs directly and pours $250 million to $310 million into the Mahoning Valley economy.

A new $16-million, 171,000-square-foot addition to the South Unit of the Youngstown Hospital Association is ready for occupancy.

Youngstown State University is accepting applications for the six-year program leading to a doctor of medicine degree at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, from students who will graduate from high school in June 1976.

1965: The Fisher Appliance Co. will remodel the old W.T. Grant Co. building at Federal and Hazel streets at a cost of $12,000.

The Greater Youngstown AFL-CIO Council adopts a resolution supporting the newly formed General Duty Nurses Association in its efforts to get pay raises and fringe benefits.

Mrs. Louise Miller is elected president of the Girard Petal Pushers Garden Club.

1940: Traffic is being diverted from Beard Road, Springfield Township, after part of the road at the junction with Western Reserve Road caved in over an abandoned mine.

Joseph G. Butler III, chairman of the building committee, announces the appointment of Hazel Strouss as house manager of Buechner Hall, which is under construction.

Purported operators of the Jungle Inn, notorious Trumbull County gambling casino, are named in a suit filed in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court by Helen Ingle seeking to recover $1,193 in gambling losses.