YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 30, the 335th day of 2016. There are 31 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1782: The United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War.

1803: Spain completes the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States.

1835: Samuel Langhorne Clemens – better known as Mark Twain – is born in Florida, Mo.

1874: British statesman Sir Winston Churchill is born at Blenheim Palace.

1940: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Greenwich, Conn. (The marriage ended in divorce in 1960.)

1982: The Michael Jackson album “Thriller” is released by Epic Records.

1996: 1960s novelty singer Tiny Tim, best remembered for his rendition of “Tip-toe Thru’ the Tulips,” dies in Minneapolis.

2011: Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia dismantle Occupy Wall Street encampments in both cities.

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1991: The Warren John F. Kennedy Eagles win the Division IV state football championship, beating Springfield Central Catholic, 20-7, at Massillon Paul Brown Stadium.

Mahoning Valley merchants report that hard times brought a smaller group of shoppers out the day after Thanksgiving than a year earlier.

A state official says there is no obligation to alert the Shenango community when an inmate escapes from the Youth Development Center on Frew Road, rejecting requests by residents and a state senator that an alarm siren by installed.

1976: Two young men force their way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jackson on Idlewood Avenue and hold them at gunpoint while looting the house.

The Youngstown Board of Education will meet privately with representatives of the NAACP in an attempt to settle the school desegregation suit before it goes to trial in Cleveland on Dec. 20.

A 12-year-old Farrell boy, Wayne Thompson Jr., is killed by his own weapon while hunting deer in Elk County

1966: North and South Side hospitals cancel elective surgeries under the threat of a nurses strike, but say emergency services will be maintained.

Gov. James A. Rhodes calls for his inauguration on Jan. 9 to be conducted “in an atmosphere of simplicity, informality and at no cost to the taxpayer.” It is scheduled for 8 a.m. and will be followed by a normal workday.

Low-flying airplanes approaching a landing at Southern Airways have snapped high-tension lines on Hitchcock Road 13 times in four years.

1941: Youngstown’s early Christmas shopping tempo, aided by ideal weather of 64 degrees, increases over the weekend as thousands jam downtown streets and stores.

Florence Miller, wife of Youngstown traffic officer Charles Miller, is killed in a car-truck collision near Saranac, N.Y. Officer Miller and two others were injured. The Millers’ daughter, Elaine, died in January of a brain tumor.

Stambaugh Thompson’s Christmas sale has Community silverplate service for eight for $40.68. English china lamps with silk shades for $6.95 and wool auto blankets with a carrying bag for $5.95