Today is Sunday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2018. There are 36 days left in the year.

November 25, 2018 at 12:00a.m.

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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 were quickly extinguished.

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

1940: The cartoon character Woody Woodpecker makes his debut in the animated short “Knock Knock.”

1947: Movie-studio executives meeting in New York agree to blacklist the “Hollywood Ten” who had been cited for contempt of Congress the day before.

1961: The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, is commissioned.

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.

1986: The Iran-Contra affair erupts as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese reveal that profits from secret arms sales to Iran have been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.

1987: Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, dies in office at age 65.

1999: Elian Gonzalez, a 5-year-old Cuban boy, is rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida, setting off an international custody battle.

2001: As the war in Afghanistan enters its eighth week, CIA officer Johnny “Mike” Spann is killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America’s first combat casualty of the conflict.

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

2008: President-elect Barack Obama says economic recovery efforts will trump deficit concerns after he takes office in January; at the same time, Obama pledges a “page-by-page, line-by-line” budget review to root out unneeded spending.

Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick pleads guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge, receiving a three-year suspended sentence.

2013: Pushing back against critics, President Barack Obama forcefully defends the temporary agreement to freeze Iran’s disputed nuclear program, declaring that the United States “cannot close the door on diplomacy.”

Prosecutors close their yearlong investigation into the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that claimed the lives of 26 victims; their report says the motive of gunman Adam Lanza, who also killed his mother and himself, might never be known.

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.

2017: On what is designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, President Emmanuel Macron launches an initiate to combat violence and harassment against women in France.

Veteran Hollywood actor Rance Howard, the father of director Ron Howard, dies at the age of 89.

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1993: Ben Feldman, who died in East Liverpool at the age of 81, is remembered as perhaps the greatest life insurance salesman of all time, having sold insurance policies for New York Life with a face value of $1.5 billion during his career.

Lordstown Mayor Arno Hill suggests two sites in the village as possible sites for a proposed 1,000-bed maximum security prison: the Space Center on Route 45 and a private parcel on Bailey Road near the Ohio Turnpike.

Although thousands of poor Ohio children suffer from lead poisoning, state legislators have begun to address the problem only after more affluent families have been shown to be affected, public health officials allege.

1978: Coach John Delserone’s Brookfield Warriors drub Hamilton Baden 28-0 to win the state AA football champion before 5,676 fans in Dayton. Brookfield had a 11-0 season and became the first area team since Warren Harding in 1974 to bring home the state title.

WKBN Broadcasting Co. of Youngstown reaches an agreement in principal to buy Lima Broadcasting Corp. for $3.6 million.

A combination of freezing rain and falling temperatures is responsible for more than 70 overnight traffic accidents in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties.

1968: The J. Fearnley Bronnell home at 1200 Broadway near Fifth Avenue is razed, the final private home taken down to clear the way for construction of a $4 million Presbyterian home to serve Northeastern Ohio.

Funeral services are scheduled at Shriver-Allison North Side Chapel for Abraham Hume, 73, Gypsy Lane, president of Hume’s Furniture Store, who died at Northside Hospital.

Pastor Harold Deitch, First Friends Church in Salem, announces the World’s Most Unusual Thanksgiving at which three choirs will perform.

1943: Bishop James A. McFadden will pontificate at a solemn high Mass opening 40 hours of devotions at St. Columba Cathedral. The 28 seminarians of the Youngstown Diocese who are studying at Our Lady of the Lake Seminary in Cleveland will participate.

Sigmond Romberg, composer of “Desert Song,” “Student Prince” and other successful operettas, will return for a one-night stand at Stambaugh Auditorium. Sellout audiences have greeted Romberg and his cast of 50 everywhere.

Breaking a 75-year tradition, Burch Directory Co. of Akron is gathering information for its new Youngstown City Directory by mail instead of sending out canvassers.