Today is Friday, Nov. 26, the 331st day of 2004. There are 35 days left in the year. On this sate in

Today is Friday, Nov. 26, the 331st day of 2004. There are 35 days left in the year. On this sate in 1942, the motion picture "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, has its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.
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, President Roosevelt orders nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning Dec. 1. 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 adoptes a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth. In 1950, China enters the Korean conflict, launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea. In 1965, France launches its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit. In 1973, President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 181/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape. 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 1994, 30 clergymen are elevated to the rank of cardinal in a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope John Paul II; Margaret Garrish, a 72-year-old Detroit woman, commits suicide in the presence of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
November 26, 1979: The slowdown in American automobile sales will be further reflected in the Mahoning Valley with the layoff of some 1,300 employees at the General Motors Packard Electric Division in Warren.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash of a single-engine plane on the runway of the New Castle Airport. The pilot walked away from the crash and disappeared.
Victor Posner's Sharon Steel Corp. is the apparent high bidder for the U.V. Industries Inc. sale of its remaining assets. The competing bidder, Reliance Group Inc., is backing off in its bidding for the company.
November 26, 1964: The 910th Troop Carrier Group at Youngstown Municipal Airport is honored at the Second Air Force Reserve Region commanders conference. The conference, which involves a six-state area, was held at the Youngstown Air Reserve Base for the first time.
Hugh R. Jones, a Youngstown University graduate employed in the research and development laboratories of the Army Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va., wins a $50 award for his invention of a new muffler, which features a replaceable cartridge.
November 26, 1954: Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. lights its "A" blast furnace at the Campbell Works, boosting its pig iron production as the upturn in iron and steel production continues to gain ground. Steel operations will reach 86 percent of capacity with two Bessemer converter plants, 57 open hearths and 16 blast furnaces in operation.
Red and green Yuletide decorations are back in place on Federal Street, the "talking Santa" is in his usual store widow seat and even 38-degree temperatures add to the Christmas atmosphere as thousands of shoppers throng downtown Youngstown streets and stores.
The take from a robbery at the New Waterford Bank has been computed at $16,610, higher than had first been thought because of the unusually heavy supply of cash that was on hand because of heavy deposits the day before Thanksgiving.
November 26, 1929: Ambulance chasing and other evils in the legal profession in Mahoning County have been corrected and conditions are good, the 14 commissioners named to study the problem report to common pleas judges and the Mahoning Bar Association.
A building permit is issued for construction of a $1.2 million, 20-story hotel to be built on Federal Street near Chestnut and to be called the Warner Hotel. It will be named for the Warner brothers, but is separate from their new $1.5 million theater that will be built nearby.
Professional profit-taking in preparation for the three-day holiday depresses stock prices in late afternoon trading. The volume of trading was small.