Today is Tuesday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2006. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2006. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. (Felton, a Democrat appointed by Gov. Thomas Hardwick to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas E. Watson, serves only a day before Watson's elected successor, Walter F. George, takes office.)
In 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opens in New York. In 1942, the Alaska highway across Canada is formally opened. In 1964, the upper level of New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island, is opened. In 1969, the Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930. In 1979, a mob attacks the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans. In 1980, 87 people die in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. In 1985, former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard is arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleads guilty, and is sentenced to life in prison.) In 1995, The Dow Jones industrial average closes above the 5,000 mark for the first time.
November 21, 1981: Leon Fox. 56, a customer at Allen's Drugstore, 529 Gypsy Lane, is shot to death by one two men during an attempted robbery at the store. Liberty police say they have no leads.
Santa Claus arrives in downtown Youngstown in a parade that was lead by the Ursuline Irish Marching Band. Several thousand people braved a light snow and falling temperatures.
Fire of undetermined origin destroys a house at 6250 Quarry Road despite efforts of firemen from seven different departments. The firefighters were hampered by water problems and exploding ammunition that was stored in the basement.
November 21, 1966: The education of some 28,000 pupils in the Youngstown public schools comes to a halt as the Youngstown Federation of Teachers sets up picket lines at the district's 46 buildings in their continuing battle for an election for a bargaining agent for the district's 1,200 teachers.
Youngstown detectives are questioning a South High School student in the wounding of two 17-year-old youths following a dance at East High School. The victims, Richard Hill and Stephen Mosley, are in St. Elizabeth Hospital.
The Junior League of Youngstown withdraws its endorsement of a proposed zoo at Mill Creek Park.
November 21, 1956: The Rev. Willis McGill, his wife, the former Anne McAuley of Youngstown, and their three boys have elected to stay in Egypt and maintain skeleton operations at the United Presbyterian Mission despite the uncertainty of the Suez war.
Safecrackers strike the Hygrade Packing Co. at 1540 South Ave., escaping with several thousand dollars.
Mahoning County Sheriff Paul Langley posts 3,650 for a recount of all 365 precincts in the sheriff's race.Official results find Langlet losing to G. Stanley Kreiler by a margin of 44 votes out of more than 29,500 cast.
November 21, 1931: Tibley Smith, 26, of Ashtabula goes to Ohio's electric chair sobbing and maintaining his innocence in the murder of his wife, Clara. Smith's lover, Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther has admitted firing the fatal shot and was once sentenced to death, but is awaiting a new trial.
H.H. Hooper, general chairman of a stockholders committee, predicts that the City Trust & amp; Savings Bank may reopen by Christmas if a plan proposed by the state superintendent of banks is followed.
The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce protests a plan by the Erie Railroad to transfer 50 employees in its accounting office in Youngstown to Hornell, N.Y.