YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 21

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2018. There are 40 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1927: Picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado are fired on by state police; six miners are killed.

1931: The Universal horror film “Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff, is first released.

1980: Eighty-seven people die in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1992: A three-day tornado outbreak that would strike 13 states begins in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern U.S.; 26 people are killed.

1995: Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initial a peace plan to end 31/2 years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

2008: Wall Street stages a comeback, with the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 points.

2017:President Donald Trump speaks up about the sexual assault allegations against Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, discounting them and says voters must not support Moore’s “liberal” rival.

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1993: When the 1971 class of Ursuline High School has its reunion an unusually high number of politicians will attend : Mahoning County Juvenile Judge James McNally, Youngstown Councilman Joseph Naples, Coitsville Trustee Nick Pope, Youngstown Prosecutor Maureen Cronin, 7th District Court of Appeals Judge Gene Donofrio, Canfield Trustee-elect Joseph Warino and Youngstown Councilwoman-elect Ann Mancino Nemeth.

Youngstown State University defeats Akron University 19-0 in the last regular game of the season and will next make its fifth-straight appearance in a Div. 1-AA playoff game.

Pauline Meredith Taylor, 93, an activist for peace, civil rights and organized labor, who was a friend of W.E.B. DuBois, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

1978: The Trumbull County Planning Commission seeks $50,000 from county commissioners to update aerial photographs of the county.

Sharon, Pa., Realtor Fernando A. Dalo Jr. announces that the Outdoor Army-Navy Store has bought the Ashton Estate Building downtown, which housed the G.C. Murphy store for 50 years until it closed in July.

Youngstown Steel Door Co. will spend $2.6 million for improvements at its booming railroad car parts plant on Henricks Road.

1968: The Youngstown Community Action Council will seek $151,383 in federal funding for a summer Head Start program that would serve 630 children in the county.

Ten members of Teamsters Local 377 filed suit in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to stop a proposed election they claim is an effort by present union officials to prevent the plaintiffs from gaining control of the local.

Central Square’s “Man on the Monument,” in imminent peril of being removed due to remodeling of the Public Square, is offered a new home. Thomas Bertch, owner of a West Side plaza, would buy a site on Schenley Avenue at Bears Den Road to save the statue. (The statue remains in Central Square today.)

1943: Two army air cadets parachute to safety when their plane ran out of gas and crashed into the woods near Salineville. Cadet Pilot J.M. Beyer, 19, and co-pilot M. E. Baumbartner, 21, were westbound from Pittsburgh when the plane ran out of fuel.

Congressman Michael J. Kirwan is confident Democrats will gain some seats in the House of Representatives in November 1944. He will run again and believes President Franklin D. Roosevelt will seek a fourth term.