YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 28

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2017. There are 33 days left in the year.

Associated Press

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: Fire engulfs the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever.

1964: The United States launches the space probe Mariner 4 on a course toward Mars, which it would fly past in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet.

1990: Margaret Thatcher resigns as British prime minister during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II, who then confers the premiership on John Major.

2012: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says his state will need nearly $37 billion to recover and rebuild from Superstorm Sandy.

2016: An 18-year-old Somali native drives a car into a crowd of students at Ohio State University, then attacks bystanders with a knife before he is shot and killed by a campus police officer; 13 people are injured.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Atty. Timothy E. Franken, representing the Doll House, a nonalcoholic “juice bar” on Wilson Avenue that features nude dancing, is trying to block a Campbell ordinance prohibiting such entertainment.

U.S. News and World Report lists Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., as fourth among the top 10 liberal arts colleges in the northern region of the country.

General Motors Corp. says it will add 500 jobs in Defiance, Ohio, where the automaker is seeking a tax break on a $30.8 million improvement at its Powertrain Division plant.

1977: Lawyers in Ohio will be allowed to advertise in print media and on radio and television under a new set of rules established by the Ohio Supreme Court.

U.S. Steel Corp. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency apparently have settled their environmental disagreements over the proposed construction of a $3.5 billion steel mill on a 3,000-acre site at Conneaut, Ohio.

Ten inches of snow and temperatures in the teens did not stop the parade welcoming Santa Claus to Girard, although crowds were sparse. About 300 attended a party afterward in the city gymnasium.

1967: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. dedicates one of the largest blast furnaces in the world at its Indiana Harbor Works, a unit that produces 4,000 tons of iron a day.

A 20-foot blue spruce, the personal Christmas tree of President and Mrs. Johnson, will be cut at the Ravenna township farm of Howard Cowan and shipped to the White House.

Soda & Luscher Construction Co. of Niles submits the low bid of $4.8 million for the 4.3-mile section of I-80 west of Hubbard. It includes bridges over Sampson, Logan and Mt. Everett roads.

1942: A temporary restraining order preventing Youngstown police from seizing marble boards owned by Lois Kroeck is dissolved by the court of appeals, which found the city’s antigambling ordinance constitutional.

The Youngstown and Mahoning County Community and War Chest drive for $305,472 is taking considerably more walking than driving compared to former campaigns due to gas rationing.

The feature on Sunday’s Parochial Football League program will be the clash between the undefeated St. Columba and St. Patrick teams.