YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

YEAR AGO

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2015. 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.

1864: During the Civil War, Confederate agents set a series of arsons in New York; the blazes quickly are extinguished.

1963: The body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1986: The Iran-Contra affair erupts as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese reveal that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.

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

2014: Attorneys for Michael Brown’s family vow to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who killed the unarmed 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson, who insists in an interview with ABC News that he could not have done anything differently in the confrontation with Brown. (The Justice Department later declines to prosecute Wilson.)

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1990: A game-ending, tie-breaking field goal ends the Youngstown State University Penguins’ perfect season with a 20-17 loss to the University of Central Florida in the first round of playoffs in NCAA Division I-AA. Some 12,500 fans attended the game at Stambaugh Stadium.

Previously uncounted ballots provide the final results in the race to succeed Judge Elwyn Jenkins, giving R. Scott Krichbaum a 144-vote margin, 47,841 to 47,697, over Beth Smith.

Chris Columbus, a 1976 graduate of Warren John F. Kennedy High School, is happy, proud and overwhelmed that the new comedy he directed, “Home Alone,” is the hottest movie in the nation.

1975: By a vote of 8 to 2, Warren City Council kills a proposal to create a five-person committee for 60 days to investigate charges of police brutality and misconduct.

The Campbell Schools Citizens Committee recommends that the Board of Education place an emergency 10.8-mill, five-year levy on the ballot as soon as possible. The district ran out of money and closed its doors until Jan. 3.

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who were 17-year-old high-school students in Cleveland when they came up with the idea of Superman in 1933, are seeking an old-age pension from the owners of the “Man of Steel,” Warner Communications Inc. Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to their creation for $130 to Detective Comics.

1965: The G.M. McKelvey Co.’s Parkade garage opens to provide inside parking for more than 200 cars during the Christmas shopping season.

Sandra Hill, Youngstown speech therapist, addresses the first meeting of the New Castle Voice Club for laryngectomy patients at the VFW Home in New Castle, Pa.

Clergymen of three faiths stress the true significance of Thanksgiving during a service at St. John Episcopal Church for Youngstown University students as they prepare to leave campus for the holiday.

1940: Traffic Commissioner Clarence Coppersmith suggests to Youngstown City Council that penny-nickel parking meters be installed on Central Square Two-hour limits would be used on other downtown streets.

Six area high-school English teachers attend the National Council of English Teachers convention in Chicago: Marian Maiden, Irene Wilson, Lucille Patterson, Elizabeth Miller, Isabel Bacon and Helen Pond.

The Moyer Manufacturing Co. in Youngstown receives a contract for $19,475 for 30,000 pairs of serge pants for the Army.