Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2014. There are 35 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1789: This is a day of Thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1825: The first college social fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Society, is formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
1842: The founders of the University of Notre Dame arrive at the school’s present-day site near South Bend, Ind.
1864: English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson presents a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” to his 12-year-old friend Alice Pleasance Liddell; the book is later revised and turned into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
1933: A judge in New York rules the James Joyce book “Ulysses” is not obscene and can be published in the United States.
1941: A Japanese naval task force consisting of six aircraft carriers leaves the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii.
1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning Dec. 1.
The motion picture “Casablanca,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, has its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.
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1989: Robert E. Williams, 76, former executive officer of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and GF Business Equipment Inc., dies at his Walnut Creek, Calf., home.
Suzanne Tartan of Youngstown and Brian Anderson of Warren return home after six weeks in Germany, where they witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall.
1974: William Olson, 22, of West Boulevard, a senior engineering student at Ohio State University, is killed when his car slams into a utility pole on the North Fourth Street Viaduct in Columbus.
The Youngstown Board of Control authorizes a monthly parking rate of $10 for those willing to sign a 30-month contract at the city’s new downtown parking deck.
1964: The Federal Communications Commission announces the Bell System will cut interstate rates $100 million early in 1965. Reduction in interstate rates are to be negotiated.
The Christmas tree in Children’s Hospital, Oakland, Calif., decorated with baseballs autographed by Major League greats and Willie Mays’ used baseball glove that he had for four years, will be auctioned off for the hospital’s benefits.
1939: Archbishop Edward Mooney of Detroit, a Youngstown native, and Archbishop John Joseph Mitty of San Francisco emerge as the most likely prelates to succeed the late George Cardinal Mundelein as archbishop of Chicago.
A tidal wave of shopping men, women and children engulfs Youngstown’s downtown stores — large and small — on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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