YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Nov. 26, the 331st day of 2016. There are 35 days left in the year.

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1941: U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivers a note to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, setting forth U.S. demands for “lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area.” The same day, 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, a native of Sebring, Ohio, tells a federal court that she’d accidentally caused part of the 181/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.

2006: In New York City, an angry crowd demands to know why police officers killed Sean Bell, an unarmed man, on the day of his wedding by firing dozens of shots that also wounded two of Bell’s friends.

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1991: Wellsville is the first Columbiana County community to close its local jail, but Columbiana and East Palestine say they’d like to follow suit.

Trumbull County commissioners say there should be a period during which commissioners from Mahoning and Trumbull counties directly oversee the transition of the Youngstown Municipal Airport into a regional facility, but Mahoning County commissioners say a separate seven-member port authority should be established from the start.

A total of 7,668 Mahoning Valley residents slipped under the poverty level in the last year, reflecting a growth in poverty among blue-collar workers as manufacturing jobs decrease.

1976: Angela Jackson, 72, of Salem wins the top prize of $250,000 in the Ohio Lottery’s Pot O’ Gold game.

Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, returns from a Mideast trip saying he was encouraged by comments from the Shah of Iran and the King of Jordan expressing a desire for peace with Israel.

The Mahoning County Tuberculosis & Health Association is conducting a survey of area dentists and physicians to determine how many have either asked their patients not to smoke or restricted smoking in their offices.

1966: Acting on a recommendation of the county engineer, Mahoning County commissioners increase the residential sewer tax from $18 to $27 a year.

Common Pleas Judge Elwyn Jenkins grants a temporary injunction sought by the Youngstown Board of Education, ending a strike by teachers.

General Motors Corp.’s 12,000 employees at the Lordstown Complex and Packard Electric Division are getting a 3-cent-per-hour cost-of-living increase.

Members and guests of the merrymakers Dance Club stage a Thanksgiving dance at the American Legion Hall in Canfield, dancing to the music of George Guzzo and the Four Notes.

1941: Harry Goldstein, vice president and general merchandise manager of Strouss-Hirshberg Co., dies in the Cleveland Clinic after a long illness. His career spanned from selling papers and shining shoes to a top executive.

Burglars break into the Poland home of Roy Hum, making off with $2,665 in cash, securities and household goods.

The work of clearing a site and constructing foundations for a radio range station near Fowler to aid airplanes using the new Youngstown Municipal Airport is proceeding rapidly.