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Today is Monday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2016. There are 40 days left in the year.

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1789: North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1922: Rebecca L. Felton, a Georgia Democrat, is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate; her term, the result of an interim appointment, ended the next day as Walter F. George, the winner of a special election, took office.

1969: The Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, 55-45, the first such rejection since 1930.

1973: President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 181/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

1980: Eighty-seven people die in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

2011: Congress’ bipartisan deficit reduction “supercommittee,” tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in cuts over a decade, fails; under the law that established the committee, inability to reach a compromise would trigger about $1 trillion in automatic spending cuts in military and domestic government programs beginning in 2013.

2015: Belgian authorities close Brussels’ subway system and flood streets with armed police and soldiers in response to what they say is a threat of Paris-style attacks.

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1991: Pennsylvania legislators who approved a $14 billion budget and $3 billion tax increase in August say they did not realize the changes would make Social Security payments to the state’s residents subject to the state income tax.

W. Lawrence Weeks, president of CSC Industries Inc., parent of Copperweld Steel Co., which employs 1,500 workers in Warren, says if the company is not able to borrow $45 million, the Warren plant will be shut down.

Harry Manganaro of Youngstown Construction and Excavation Co. says that if Youngstown City Council bans construction-debris dumps in the city, the cost of tearing down a house in the city will jump from $1,500 to $5,000.

1976: Frank Ventura, 17, a part-time attendant at a New Castle Sunoco station, is credited for reporting to state police a suspicious car, which led to police stopping the car after it crossed into Ohio and rescuing Anne Ryan, 18, New Castle’s homecoming queen, who had been abducted as she walked to her car at the Towne Mall.

“We can no longer afford the luxury of wasting talent as we have in the past,’’ says Dr. Wilbur D. Simmons, a consultant hired to develop a plan for Trumbull County school districts to challenge unusually bright and talented students.

Youngstown district basic steel firms, the area’s largest employers, are paying an estimated $12 per hour for men working in the mills.

1966: The education of some 28,000 Youngstown city school students comes to a halt when teachers who are members of the Youngstown Federation of Teachers place pickets around the district’s 46 buildings in their campaign to be recognized as the bargaining agent for 1,200 teachers.

Vandals used blue spray paint to paint 20 windows at Cardinal Mooney High School and the windshield of a school bus in the parking lot.

Two different unions claim to be the bargaining agent for employees at the Mahoning County Nursing Home.

Sandra Bair of Canfield is named Miss Youngstown University in the first beauty pageant in the university’s history. Miss Bair, an education major, was crowned in a ceremony in C.J. Strouss Auditorium.

1941: Building the Berlin Dam will require 60,000 barrels of cement and 450,000 pounds of steel. Bids will be opened Dec. 18.

The loss of Case to Western Reserve leaves the Youngstown College Penguins the only undefeated collegiate football team in Ohio.

Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. will bank its No. 5 blast furnace at the Ohio Works. A blast furnace was banked and six open hearths suspended at the Farrell plant, all because of the coal strike.