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Local history
50 years ago: 1973
The Woodbury Lodge 539 of Free and Accepted Masons, John R. Biddle worshipful master, received permission to build a new Masonic Temple on a parcel of land along Nason Drive, Roaring Spring.
25 years ago: 1998
Amtran, Eric Wolf general manager, was using a concept called "Team 2000" to upgrade the facility based on "principle-centered leadership."
10 years ago: 2013
Local bars and restaurants like Zach's, Mike's Court and the Knickerbocker said that the night before Thanksgiving did seem to be their busiest drinking day, maybe due to students and other young people coming home for the holiday. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal called the night before Thanksgiving "Blackout Wednesday."
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle
World history
Today is Monday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2023. There are 34 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985.).
On this date:
-- In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
-- In 1924, Macy's first Thanksgiving Day parade -- billed as a "Christmas Parade" -- took place in New York.
-- In 1942, during World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.
-- In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant near Seattle.
-- In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
-- In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
-- In 1998, answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Bill Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading."
-- The Associated Press