Today is Wednesday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2002. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2002. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date in 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station opens.
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C. In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. In 1945, Gen. George C. Marshall is named special U.S. envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the nationalists and the Communists. In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at age 65. In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, is slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. In 1973, the Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned. In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. In 1983, 183 people are killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport. In 1985, the British House of Commons approves the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland. In 1989, 107 people are killed when a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroys a Colombian jetliner.
November 27, 1977: U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown says the highlight of his political career may be having been present in Jerusalem for the meeting of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin.
Mayor-elect J. Phillip Richley names his brother-in-law, Matthew J. DeCarlo, Youngstown fire chief and Kenneth Gran as water commissioner. Julius J. Geewax will fill a new post to deal with economic revitalization in the city.
A new group of former Ursuline High athletic stars is inducted into the Ursuline Boosters Hall of Fame. They are Joe Locicero, Dick Angle, John Rorick, Mike Banks, Frank Knisley, all football; Joe Dominic, Robert Harrison, Bennie Allison, all basketball; Glen Hodge, track, and Tom Carey, honorary.
November 27, 1962: About a dozen irate citizens attend a meeting of Boardman Township trustees to protest the establishment of a club-sponsored swimming pool and other recreational facilities on the east side of West Boulevard near Boardman-Canfield Road.
Four college students are killed in a crash near Delaware, Ohio, while returning to school. Dead are Anthony Lowry, 20, of Youngstown, a student at Ohio State, and Bruce Seeman, 17, of Damascus, Gary W. Hartle, 19, of Shippenville, Pa., and Tom Switzer, 18, of Knox, Pa. All were students at Urbana College. Their car collided with a pick-up truck.
Martin Gail, 50, manager of Welles Family Store on Garland Ave., is arrested on a warrant charging him with violating the state's Sunday sales law. The warrant was sworn out by John Dios, an employee in the housewares department of G.M. McKelvey Co., acting at the request of the Downtown Board of Trade.
November 27, 1952: Seventh Ward Councilman Stephen R. Olenick will ask East Ohio Gas Co. officials to delay the 8 percent rate increase as was done in Cleveland
Herman F. Steinfurth, 77, of 808 Lexington Ave., Youngstown fire chief from 1935 to 1939, dies of pneumonia at his home.
The Youngstown Post Office hires an additional 1,100 temporary employees to handle the Christmas mail rush, which is expected to be the biggest in history in the Mahoning Valley.
Hundreds of Youngstown College students attend the annual Thanksgiving chapel service at St. John's Episcopal Church and a Thanksgiving Mass at St. Joseph Church, which hosts the Newman Club.
November 27, 1927: Ray Dahman, former Youngstown South High football star, scores Notre Dame's touchdown and then drop kicks the extra point to give the Irish their only points in a 7-6 win over the University of Southern California. The game was played at Soldiers Field before 113,000 spectators, the greatest throng that ever witnessed a gridiron struggle in America.
Eight members of the Otterbein College football team are suspended or placed on probation as the result of a drinking party following the Otterbein-Heidelberg game at Tiffin.
George M. Cohan brings his whimsical play. "The Tavern," to the Park Theater in Youngstown for three days and nights. Matinee tickets from 50 cents to $1.65; nights, from 75 cents to $2.75.