YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 25

Today is Saturday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2017. There are 36 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1783: The British evacuate New York during the Revolutionary War.

1864: During the Civil War, Confederate agents set a series of arson fires in New York. The blazes are quickly extinguished.

1915: A new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, is founded by William Joseph Simmons.

1920: Radio station WTAW of College Station, Texas, broadcasts the first play-by-play description of a football game, between Texas University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. (Texas won, 7-3.)

1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke.

1963: The body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. His widow, Jacqueline, lights an “eternal flame” at the gravesite.

1992: The movie “The Bodyguard,” starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, is released by Warner Bros.

2002: President George W. Bush signs legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and appoints Tom Ridge to be its head.

2016: Fidel Castro, who led his rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, dies at age 90.

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1992: Four Warren police officers are assigned to bicycle patrol in Fairview Gardens, a housing project notorious for drugs and violence.

Sharon Steel Corp.’s gas and electric suppliers have notified the company that they will terminate services within 14 days unless the steelmaker can pay its utility bills.

Trumbull County’s 911 plan clears a major hurdle with Warren City Council’s unanimous approval of joining the countywide emergency phone system. Votes are pending in Niles, Liberty and Newton Falls.

1977: The old Walmo Elementary School in Neshannock Township, Pa., will be converted into a meeting place for retired and elderly people.

A 39-year-old Ravenna man who was fired from the Youngstown Police Department in 1969 after a complaint by the father of a 17-year-old girl has been charged with rape in Kent.

Mickey Mouse will visit the Montgomery Ward store on Boardman-Canfield Road and give free autographed pictures.

1967: Three Youngstown banks, the Union National Bank, Mahoning National Bank and People’s Bank, are following the lead of major banking institutions and increasing their prime interest rates for loans from 51/2 percent to 6 percent.

A Molotov cocktail is tossed into the Brown’s Drug Store on Southern Blvd, about 5 a.m., but quick action prevented a serious fire.

The Leetonia-Washingtonville Boosters Club will sponsor a donkey basketball game with the Leetonia High faculty playing the Leetonia merchants.

1942: Dr. W.V. Moyer, a Youngstown dentist for five years, is commissioned a lieutenant in the Army and is stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison.

Youngstown housewives, maids and patriotic men join the “Can Gang” to help Uncle Sam win the war. The city has collected 115 tons of cans and sent seven railroad cars of cans to Vulcan Detinning Co.

Bruce Rogers, a co-founder of Mill Creek Park and prominent local amateur historian and Baptist Church worker of more than 40 years, dies at 88.