YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 26

Today is Sunday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2017. There are 35 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1789: Americans observe a day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to mark the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

1832: The first streetcar railway in the United States starts operating in New York City with 12- cent fares.

1864: English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson presents a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” to his 12-year-old friend Alice Pleasance Liddell; the book later would be later turned into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

1917: The National Hockey League is founded in Montreal, succeeding the National Hockey Association.

1933: A judge in New York rules the James Joyce book “Ulysses” is not obscene and could be published in the United States.

1940: Nazi Germany begins walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw.

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: The Warner Bros. motion picture “Casablanca,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, has its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.

1950: China enters the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.

1965: France launches its first satellite, the 92-pound Asterix, into orbit.

1973: President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court that she’d accidentally caused part of the 181/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.

1986: President Ronald Reagan appoints a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran- Contra affair.

1990: Japanese business giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agrees to acquire MCA Corp., owner of Universal Studios, for $6.6 billion.

1991: The Stars and Stripes are lowered for the last time at Clark Air Base in the Philippines as the United States abandons one of its oldest and largest overseas installations, which was damaged by a volcano.

1992: The British government announces that Queen Elizabeth II has volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income, and would take her children off the public payroll.

2007: President George W. Bush meets separately at the White House with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority a day ahead of a major Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland.

President Bush greets the 2007 Nobel Prize winners – including former Vice President Al Gore – in the Oval Office.

Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott announces his retirement after a 35-year career in Congress.

Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor, 24, is mortally wounded during a botched armed robbery at his home in Palmetto Bay, Fla. (Taylor died the next day.)

Hall of Fame jockey Bill Hartack dies in Freer, Texas, at age 74.

2012: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak abruptly quits politics, saying in a surprise announcement, “I feel I have exhausted my political activity, which had never been a special object of desire for me.”

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie announces he will seek re-election, so he can continue to guide the state through a recovery from Superstorm Sandy.

2016: Cuba says it will observe nine days of mourning for Fidel Castro, including a three-day journey by his ashes along the route taken by the rebel army he’d led on a victorious march across the island in 1959.

Tony Award-winning character actor Fritz Weaver dies in New York at age 90.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Mahoning County commissioners come up with an extra $32,000 that will allow Sheriff Edward P. Nemeth to hire up to 20 deputies to bolster jail staffing through the year’s end.

Nicholas A. Creatore Jr., 13 months old, will compete in the finals of the Huggies Diapers Happy Derby crawling competition during halftime of the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants football game. The winner will get a $2,000 savings bond.

Youngstown City Council votes to abolish two vacant jobs, the risk manager and assistant risk manager. Risk Manager John Franken retired two years ago.

1977: FBI agents arrest a 29-year-old Lowellville man on a charge he attempted to extort $50,000 from the Lowellville Savings & Loan Co. on the pretext that he had kidnapped a bank official.

Stewart Wagner, retired superintendent of the Austintown Local School District, is named to fill the unexpired term of Harold Ohl on the Mahoning County Board of Education.

A sightseeing flight for Dr. Robert M. Foster of Salem and his grandchildren, Tod and Terry Miller, ends with a dramatic belly-landing of his Cessna 210 on a foam-coated runway at Youngstown Municipal Airport after the landing gear became stuck. No one was injured.

1967: Paul A. Johnson is president of Adolph Johnson & Sons, a Youngstown contractor that has been constructing landmark churches, schools and homes for 60 years.

The first units of a “steel mill of the future” are put into operation in Weirton, W. Va.

Two Austintown Boy Scouts receive Eagle awards from Troop 131 in ceremonies at Smith’s Corner Evangelical United Brethren Church: Richard Mitchell and Robert Alleman.

1942: Frank W. Mouery, Youngstown merchant and civic leader, is named the Mahoning County bond committee’s “Man of the Month.”

Frank B. Ward, Vindicator sports editor, who has covered every Rayen- South game will not be present this year due to illness.

The War Production Board orders from 2 to 3 inches taken off the length of men’s and boy’s new shirts made after Dec. 15. More than 10 million shirts will be made from material saved.