Today is Tuesday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2002. There are 35 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2002. There are 35 days left in the year. On this date in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt orders nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning Dec. 1.
In 1825, the first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, is formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. In 1832, public streetcar service begins in New York City. The fare: 121/2 cents. In 1940, the half-million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, are forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto. In 1942, the motion picture "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, has its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York. In 1943, during World War II, the HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American soldiers, is hit by a German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men are killed, including 1,015 American troops. In 1949, India adopts a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth. In 1950, China enters the Korean conflict, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea. In 1986, President 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. In 1990, Japanese business giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Company agrees to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.
November 26, 1977: The area's first major snowfall of the season brings wet and slippery roads, leading to a traffic fatality in Jackson Township and a number of weather related minor accidents. Dead is Mrs. Gladys M. Henning, 64, of Lake Milton.
An aircraft landing gear malfunctions, turning a sightseeing jaunt into a three-hour nightmare that ends with a belly landing on a foam coated runway at Youngstown Municipal Airport. The pilot, Dr. Robert M. Foster of Salem, and his grandchildren, Tod, 8, and Terry Miller, 6, are uninjured.
The union representing striking service employees of Youngstown Hospital Association file a $500,000 lawsuit against the YHA, claiming abuse of pickets.
November 26, 1962: Rev. Stewart J. Platt, speaking at the funeral service for Thomas Cavallaro, 11, who died in a bomb blast that also killed his father, "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallaro, says each person should examine his conscience and ask how he has contributed to the death of a child by supporting or tolerating vice.
Edward E. Hargett, special agent in charge of the Cleveland office of the FBI, arrives in Youngstown to personally direct the investigation into the Cavallaro car bombing.
Four engines and the tail section of a United Air Lines Viscount that crashed in Maryland, killing a Younstown stewardess and 16 other persons, will be rebuilt in an effort to determine the cause of the crash. A collision with a large bird, probably a goose, is suspected.
Stark County deputies arrest 15 employees at a Canton area discount store for violating the state's blue laws, which prohibit Sunday sales of nonessential items.
November 26, 1952: The Youngstown Shrine Club's Polack Bros. Circus opens the first of eight performances at the Struthers High Field House before an audience composed largely of district school children.
The U.S. Steel Corp., one of the world's biggest producers, is celebrating the world's biggest production record by pouring its one billionth ton of steel. The company has also named a new president, Clifford F. Hood of Pittsburgh, who has been in Youngstown at various times over the years for Chamber of Commerce and industrial activities.
A 1953 budget totaling more than $8.5 million and a general fund deficit of $320,000 is passed by Youngstown City Council.
November 26, 1927: State agriculture agents may give tuberculin tests to cattle and may condemn them to slaughter when the tests are positive, but the owner must be paid full value for the cattle to be destroyed, Judge Fred L. Hay of Defiance rules in a Trumbull County case.
Three witnesses have been called to testify on the opening day of the trial of 12 men charged with manslaughter in the death of Tony Popo, a Milton Township farmhand who was killed Oct. 24 in what was termed "the most brutal murder" in memory in Mahoning County.
Among the 10 questions on an examination given to 104 men seeking eight openings on the Youngstown Fire Department: Can you locate the city's 10 largest downtown banks, how many floors are in the city's skyscrapers, where does Oak Street end? There were also basic mathematics questions.