YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2015. There are 35 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day.

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On this date in:

1789: President George Washington declares a day of thanksgiving to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

1941: A Japanese naval task force consisting of six aircraft carriers leaves the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii.

1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders nationwide gasoline rationing beginning Dec. 1.

1950: China enters the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.

1973: President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, of Sebring, tells a federal court that she accidentally caused part of the 181/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.

1975: President Gerald R. Ford, having previously opposed a bailout of New York City, announces he will ask Congress to provide a temporary line of credit, citing progress made by the city in putting its financial affairs in order.

1986: President Ronald Reagan appoints a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.

2000: Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certifies George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin.

2010: Nineteen-year-old Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud is arrested by federal agents in Portland, Ore., culminating an elaborate sting operation in which Mohamud was led to believe he would be detonating a van of explosives during the city’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony. (Mohamud later was sentenced to 30 years in prison.)

2014: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a heart stent implanted, reviving talk about how long the 81-year-old liberal jurist would be staying on the court. (As of November 2015, Justice Ginsburg remains on the bench.)

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1990: Trumbull County’s Human Services Department has grown to 200 full-time employees as efforts have increased to put people to work rather than keep them on the dole.

A group of Youngstown State University students brought together by public-relations consultant Vic Rubenstein are sending letters to every newspaper and television station in the country to decry what they describe as character assassination of the city of Youngstown by a “60 Minutes” profile.

With an average of 45 bars open until 2:30 a.m., 16 more open until 1 a.m. and 47 beer and wine carryout sites, Austintown leads Mahoning County townships in liquor permits.

1975: A Mahoning County grand jury recommends that Sheriff Ray T. Davis be found in contempt of court for neglecting court rules for the operation of the county jail.

The Mahoning County grand jury indicts an employee in the Welfare Department who is accused of taking part of a welfare client’s check in exchange for keeping her on the rolls after she became ineligible.

Arby’s, which built its first restaurant in 1964 in Boardman, opens its 500th store across the street form the original.

1965: Fred W. Green Sr., vice president and secretary of Home Savings and Loan Co., dies of a heart attack while visiting his wife’s family in Indiana. The Japanese garden at the Greens’ Glenwood Avenue home has been visited by many people.

Two Youngstown area training centers for the unemployed receive a federal allocation of $372,722 for programs at Mahoning Valley vocational schools.

A threatening crowd of youths, many shouting profanities, gather outside Youngstown police headquarters to protest an officer’s use of force in arresting two youths during a disturbance outside Hotel Pick-Ohio. Patrolman Benjamin F. Smith Jr., 32, suffers a broken ankle while struggling with two men.

1940: Twelve volunteers, the last needed by Youngstown to meet Mahoning County’s draft call for the Army, leave by bus for Fort Hayes at Columbus. Among them is the county’s first married volunteer, Glen Roy Myers, 24.

The War Department awards a contract for $1.4 million for small army trucks to the American Bantam Car Co. in Butler, Pa.

With downtown stores flying American Red Cross flags to remind the public of the campaign, 35 more organizations sign 100 percent pledges.

Local football players figure out enough winning combinations on Saturday’s games that they were collectively due to collect $33,000 – before Youngstown police raided the Wick Club and confiscated the betting slips, including the 100 winners.