YEARS AGO

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Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2016. There are 34 days left in the year.

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1815: The constitution for the Congress Kingdom of Poland is signed by Russian Czar Alexander I, who is also king of Poland.

1901: The U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.

1910: New York City’s Pennsylvania Station officially opens.

1924: Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade – billed as a “Christmas Parade” – takes place in New York.

1939: The play “Key Largo,” by Maxwell Anderson, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

1942: During World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttles its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

1953: Playwright Eugene O’Neill dies in Boston at age 65.

1962: The first Boeing 727 is rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant.

1973: The Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.

1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter; he committed suicide in October 1985.)

1983: Some 181 people are killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas airport.

1989: A bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroys a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

2006: President George W. Bush, stopping over in Estonia en route to a NATO summit in Latvia and meetings in Jordan, intensifies diplomatic efforts to quell rising violence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

2015: A gunman attacks a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., killing three people and injuring nine. (Suspect Robert Dear has been undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital after being deemed incompetent for trial.)

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1991: Greenville Regional Hospital and Shenango Valley Medical Center in Farrell are merging.

A consultant hired by the city to study the potential of the Youngstown Municipal Airport tells Mahoning County commissioners that they won’t be making a mistake by joining in the regional operation of the airport.

The Youngstown Board of Education rejects by a vote of 6-1 a recommendation by board member Don L. Hanni III that a 15-member committee be formed to study potential consolidation of the district’s five high schools and other buildings. Board member Anthony Julian says he will have a different proposal regarding the consolidation issue at the December board meeting.

1976: U.S. Treasury Department agents arrest two former Youngstown residents in Daytona Beach, Fla., in connection with a counterfeit money operation involving $150,000 in $20 bills that were believed to have been printed on a West Side printing company press.

The long-awaited Tower Plaza Mall planned for Urban Renewal land in Sharon should be under construction in 1977, representatives of the William J. Cafaro Co. tell Sharon officials.

Airway Industries Inc., an important manufacturer of luggage, will move its offices and manufacturing facilities from West Pittsburgh to Ellwood City.

1966: Catholic Youth Organizations in the Youngstown area will attend a Thanksgiving “hootenanny” mass at St. Patrick Church on Youngstown’s South Side, followed by a dance in the auditorium.

Workmen begin installing three 36-foot tall refrigerated milk storage tanks at Isaly Dairy’s new bulk facility at the Mahoning Avenue plant.

Royal Prince Arthur, 4-year-old Shorthorn bull owned by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Withers Honey Creek Farm in Petersburg, wins a supreme grand championship at the Royal Agricultural Fair in Toronto, Canada.

1941: Patricia Penguin, newest Youngstown College mascot, only toddles when she walks, but naturalist Lindley Vickers says she’s greased lightning in the water and can out-swim and catch a speedy black bass.

Verne J. Wilson, president of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, urges president Franklin D. Roosevelt to intervene in the railroad wage dispute to avoid an interruption in the transportation of materials needed by industrial areas such as the Mahoning Valley.

Mayor William Spagnola orders an investigation at Youngstown Municipal Airport after it is alleged that the furniture delivered under a $3,482 contract does not meet specifications.