Today is Thursday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2008. There are 34 days left in the year. This is

Today is Thursday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2008. There are 34 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day. 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 1701, astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, is born in Uppsala, Sweden. In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad begins regularly serving New York’s Pennsylvania Station. In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of German troops. 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, 181 people are killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas airport. In 1988, actor John Carradine, known for his roles in horror films, dies in Milan, Italy, at age 82. In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroys a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

November 27, 1983: Mahoning County residents have three days to pay all delinquent real estate taxes before interest and penalties are tacked on and foreclosure proceedings are initiated.

Patricia Sledge Davis, a Youngstown native, is elected to a second term in the Alabama Legislature, defeating two challengers.

The future home of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in suburban Chicago will feature an elaborate sport complex named The Edward J. DeBartolo Athletic Center in honor of the Youngstown developer.

November 27, 1968: A tentative agreement is reached, ending a two-month strike by United Steelworkers against General Fireproofing Co.

Students in Youngstown schools complete their last day of classes for the calendar year as schools close for lack of operating funds.

Over 100 local handball players get tips for playing the game at the Central YMCA from Bill Yambrick, national YMCA four-wall handball champion for four years.

November 27, 1958: The Rev. John Lane Williams, superintendent of the Youngstown Methodist District, says at a Thanksgiving service at First Baptist Church that Roman Catholic and Methodist bishops who recent spoke out “with clarity on the issue of racial injustice” were answering God’s call.

Democratic legislators and party leaders sew up a deal that they hope will make Sen. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown the majority leader of the Ohio Senate, over the opposition of Gov.-elect Michael DeSalle.

Employment is on the upturn in the Mahoning Valley Thanksgiving week, with men being recalled to work in basic steel and steel and aluminum fabrication industries. Although 15,000 to 16,000 remain on furlough, about 100,000 workers in the district are employed.

November 27, 1933: Mayor Mark E. Moore warns city council that Youngstown will be without garbage collection and street lighting in 1934 unless council passes legislation setting up fees for the service,

The South Side Merchants & Civic Association join the effort for a new municipal airport that would put Youngstown on the air maps.

City Council’s finance committee refuses to grant a pension to John Stevens, 71, water department employee for 40 years, until the pension is reduced from $100 a month to $50. Large pensions remove the incentive for people to save, says Councilman W.S. Vaughn.