Today is Friday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2015

Today is Friday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2015. There are 34 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1815: The constitution for the Congress Kingdom of Poland is signed by Russian Czar Alexander I, who is also king of Poland.

1901: The U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.

1910: New York’s Pennsylvania Station officially opens.

1924: Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade – billed as a “Christmas Parade” – takes place in New York.

1939: The play “Key Largo,” by Maxwell Anderson, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

1942: During World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttles its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

1945: Gen. George C. Marshall is named special U.S. envoy to China by President Harry S. Truman to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.

1955: Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, 63, dies in Paris.

1962: The first Boeing 727 is rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant.

1973: The Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who resigned.

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.

1983: One hundred eighty-one people are killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas airport.

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.

2005: Doctors in France perform the world’s first partial face transplant on a woman disfigured by a dog bite

2010: The State Department releases a letter from its top lawyer to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning that an expected imminent release of classified cables would put “countless” lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Warren G. Harding’s state championship football team receives a heroes’ welcome at a school rally. The Raiders beat Cincinnati Princeton at the Akron Rubber Bowl to win the Division I title.

A tractor-trailer runs a red light at state Routes 14 and 45, ramming a Salem school bus. Sixteen people, including 14 students, are sent to Salem and Alliance hospitals, where four were admitted.

Browns teammate Ozzie Newsome says quarterback Bernie Kosar took a risk that may blow up in his face when he publicly questioned the work ethic and sense of pride by some players after a 30-13 drubbing the Miami Dolphins gave the Browns.

1975: Retail stores in downtown Youngstown will be open from 9 a.m. Monday through Saturday and on Sunday afternoons through Dec. 21.

A teenage bandit armed with a blue steel handgun holds up a teller at he Potter’s Savings & Loan branch in the St. Clair Plaza shopping center in East Liverpool.

The University of Notre Dame Glee Club presents its final concert of its Eastern tour at Passavant Center, Thiel College.

1965: Temperatures drop from 57 degrees to 25, bringing thunderstorms and wind gusts of nearly 50 mph.

A 34-year-old Struthers businessman, James Yallech, is shot accidentally while examining a gun for sale in an automobile near the Parkmore Restaurant in North Lima.

Columbiana County 4-H members pack a ton of homemade cookies for air shipment to American servicemen in Vietnam.

The tree-lighting on Central Square takes place under the sponsorship of United Church Women, Mahoning Deanery, National Council of Catholic Women, the Chesterton Club and Order of Protestant Men.

1940: Louis Simko, former Youngstown College basketball player, wrestles with a husky intruder who apparently planned to attack his sister at their Simon Street home. The intruder broke away and is being sought by city police.

Winners of the $10,000 1940 National Newspaper Snapshot Contest, in which The Vindicator took part, will be on display in the Manchester Room of the Central YMCA in downtown Youngstown.

Several traffic policemen adopt white raincoats and boots so they can be seen better by motorists.