Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2005. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist,

Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2005. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date 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 1901, the U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C. In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station opens. 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'd resigned. 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, 1980: The Ohio Senate Finance Committee adjourns without considering a pay raise bill for county officials and judges, which may kill any action on the bill in 1980.
Youngstown plans to double the rate it charges Mahoning County for using the city sewage treatment plant after finding that the county is paying only 20 percent of the plant's annual operating cost while pumping the same amount of sewage as the city.
The last Chevrolet Monza -- number 514,252 -- rolls off the General Motors assembly line at Lordstown, and 5,000 workers are furloughed while the plant is converted for production of the new J-car, which is to begin in March.
Gov. James A. Rhodes urges the Ohio Development Financing Commission to approve $4 million in loan guarantees toward construction of the $34 million Commuter Aircraft Corp.'s assembly plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
November 27, 1965: Columbiana County 4-H members are sending more than a ton of homemade cookies to American servicemen in Vietnam.
Gusts of wind approaching gale force strike the Youngstown district, bringing grim reminders of the devastating storms of a week earlier that did heavy damage in southern Mahoning County. With the winds came a cold front that dropped temperatures from 57 degrees to 27 degrees overnight.
Construction of two recreational areas along the shores of the Shenango Reservoir is included in the 1966 projects slated by the U.S. Army Corps of engineers.
Dr. William A. Welsh, 74, of 214 S. Cadillac Drive, dies in North Side Hospital, three days after resigning as Mahoning County Jail physician because of ill health.
November 27, 1955: The Massilon Tigers Swing Band of Washington High School is featured on a segment of NBC-TV's "Wide Wide World." The band is the only high school unit from east of the Mississippi to be invited to march in the Rose Parade on New Year's Day.
At 67, Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd sets off on another expedition to the South Pole. Byrd, who has spoken a number of times in Youngstown, expressed a desire to return to the Antarctic during an address in the city in 1947.
Police and Vindicator reporters are unable to trace the source of an explosion that shook a section of the East Side about midnight. Residents in a six-block area near Garland Ave. and Shehy Street reported hearing the explosion and feeling their houses shake. It is possible that a jet plane crashing the sound barrier caused the phenomenon.
Blanton Collier, former defensive coach of the Cleveland Browns and now head coach at Kentucky, will be the speaker at the Calvin Center for the annual Chesterton Club Football Round-up.
November 27, 1930: As a Thanksgiving gift, Judge George H. Gessner orders the release of two Youngstown men from the Canton workhouse, where they were confined since Oct. 16 on petit larceny.
Warren subscribes $155,648 to its eighth annual Community Chest drive, which is $37,000 more than ever raised before, but $28,000 short of the goal.
Youngstown City Council rejects Police Chief Paul Lyden's request for 20 additional men, but agrees to purchase two new cruiser cars equipped with radios.
Old-time newsboys distribute Thanksgiving turkeys to 827 destitute families in the Vindicator's charity drive.
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