Today is Wednesday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2005. There are 31 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2005. There are 31 days left in the year. On this date in 1782, the United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
In 1803, Spain completes the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States. In 1804, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase goes on trial, accused of political bias. (He is acquitted by the Senate.) In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- better known as Mark Twain -- is born in Florida, Miss. In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde dies in Paris at age 46. In 1936, London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, is destroyed in a fire. In 1939, the Russo-Finnish War begins as Soviet troops invade Finland. In 1962, U Thant of Burma is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold. In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados becomes independent. In 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union open negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe. In 1993, President Clinton signs into law the Brady bill, which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers. In 1995, President Clinton becomes the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland, where he implores Roman Catholics and Protestants alike not to surrender to the impulses of "old habits and hard grudges."
November 30, 1980: Three area hospitals, North Side and South Side in Youngstown and Warren General in Warren, have refused to recognize a new cost-saving policy of Blue Cross that is meant to control weekend and dental admissions to hospitals.
Hillsville, Pa., paving contractor Joseph "Blackie" Gennaro meets with Warren city officials to discuss his plan to bring a multi-million-dollar asphalt plant operation to Warren.
Popular Youngstown Playhouse actor John Griffith will go from the fantasy "Harvey," which he is playing at the Playhouse, to the fantasy of Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" as he narrates the Pickwick Puppet Theater production at Powers Auditorium.
November 30, 1965: The Conneaut area is digging out of a 24-hour snow storm that dumped 23 inches of snow on the area. Youngstown was surprised by a 2-inch snow fall that caused king-sized traffic tie ups.
William Carney, a 26-year veteran A & amp;P employee, is named manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.'s new Canfield Road store in Cornersburg.
Construction of the Mahoning-W. Federal Expressway will be held up indefinitely by the lack of a bid on moving 11 Westlake Terrace housing units out of the highway's path.
November 30, 1955: A jet fighter plane crashes into housing units at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, killing 13 people, including the year-old triplet sons of Sgt. and Mrs. William Temple, formerly of Ellwood City, Pa.
Four suspected bug runners are arrested by Youngstown vice detectives, a day after a Vindicator expos & eacute; on the city's thriving numbers rackets.
A recommendation that a proposed playground on the East Side be named Pemberton Park in memory of Tom Pemberton, the late park superintendent, is presented to City Council by 2nd Ward Councilman John Palermo.
November 30, 1930: Ohio will have one of the nation's youngest "first ladies" in Mary Louise White, the 24-year-old daughter of Ohio's Gov.-elect George White. She has presided over her father's household since her mother died a year earlier.
A plane ride for two Westminster College students ends in disaster as the small monoplane strikes a tree while taking off near Edinburg, Pa. The passenger, Fleming W. Comstock, 18, was killed and the pilot, Arthur Barlett, also 18, was injured.
Warren F. Perry, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce tax committee, suggests that city, school and county employees, from the head of each government to the last salaried employee, voluntarily agree to assume at least a portion of the deficits facing public service budgets in 1931.