YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Nov. 28, the 333rd day of 2016. There are 33 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

1861: The Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union.

1942: Nearly 500 people die in a fire that destroys the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston.

1975: President Gerald R. Ford nominates federal judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas.

1990: Margaret Thatcher resigns as British prime minister.

1994: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is slain in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.

2001: Enron Corp., once the world’s largest energy trader, collapses after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backs out of an $8.4 billion takeover deal. (Enron filed for bankruptcy protection four days later.)

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1991: Mahoning County commissioners will borrow $300,000 to put finishing touches on the $8 million Ccourthouse restoration project.

The interior of the 76-year-old McKinley Memorial auditorium is being meticulously restored, including removing multiple coats of beige paint from rich mahogany woodwork. The McKinley Memorial Library and the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association have spent $250,000 so far.

The Assumption Nursing Home abandons plans to build a $6 million nursing home and retirement community on Messerly Road in Canfield after the zoning board imposes a buffer zone and the discovery that some of the site is a wetlands.

1976: The body of a Warren man, James Caroots, 27, was pulled from Mosquito Creek Reservoir and Trumbull County deputiy sheriffs said searchers expect to find the bodies of Thomas Klacic, 26, and William Marrie, 27, when dragging operations resume. The men had been duck hunting.

Soaring imports of cheap foreign-made steel are endangering the jobs of many of Youngstown’s 40,000 steelworkers. An estimated 6,000 to 8,000 Youngstown district jobs already have been lost to imports that cost $40 to $50 less per ton than domestic steel.

Dom Rosselli captures his 503rd victory as Youngstown State University holds off stubborn Kenyon College before an opening game crowd of 3,006 at Beeghly Center.

1966: Leaders of the Youngstown Federation of Teachers, the Youngstown Education Association and the Board of Education agree to hold an election among teachers in 1968 to determine a bargaining agent for teachers.

Kenneth Waggener is named superintendent of Republic Steel’s open hearth blooming mill and Walter Cook is named superintendent of the open hearth’s 16-14 bar mill.

Seventy percent of Warren’s police and fire departments join a mass resignation movement that they say will be stopped only when officials agree to negotiate improvements in wages and benefits.

1941: Youngstown experiences the heaviest fog in the memory of local residents. It disrupted bus schedules, delayed trains canceled one airplane flight and slowed auto traffic to a crawl.

Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., has decided against going to Washington, D.C., as head of the U.S. Office of Production Management, iron and steel section.

Youngstown’s general fund is shy $306 as a result of a record-breaking month of parking-ticket fixing by Municipal Judge Peter B. Mulholland. Some of the tickets were issued to candidates in the November election or their wives and to current officeholders.