In a message dated 11/26/98 3:52:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> >     A BLAST FROM THE PAST
>  >      From UPI...Your Past Master
>  >
>  >      Today is November 25th
>  >    ---
>  >      The world mourned on this day in 1963 when President Kennedy,
>  >   assassinated in Dallas three days earlier, was buried in Arlington
>  >   National Cemetery.
>  >
>  >      Chicago went into mourning on this day in 1987 when the city's
>  first
>  >   black mayor, Harold Washington, died in office of a heart attack at
>  the
>  >   age of 65.
>  >    ---
>  >      The Iran-Contra scandal began - more or less - on this day in
>  1986...
>  >   when President Reagan announced the resignation of national security
>  >   adviser John Poindexter and the firing of Poindexter aide Lieutenant
>  >   Colonel Oliver North in the aftermath of the secret Iran arms sale.
>  >    ---
>  >      More than six-thousand British troops evacuated New York City in
>  1783
>  >   after the signing of the peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War.
>  >    ---
>  >      On this day in 1919, radio station WTAW in College Station, Texas,
>  >   broadcast the first play-by-play description of a football game,
>  between
>  >   Texas and Texas A-and-M. The world would never be the same.
>  >    ---
>  >      Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" - listed by the Guinness Book of
>  >   World Records as the world's longest running play - opened in London
>  >   this day in 1952.
>  >    ---
>  >      President Nixon ordered the national highway speed limit cut from
>  70
>  >   to 55 miles an hour in 1973 to save lives and gasoline. Sales of
>  radar
>  >   detectors and CB radios began to boom.
>  >    ---
>  >      Poland's first direct presidential elections...on this day in
>  1990...
>  >   left labor leader Lech Walesa facing a run-off against emigre
>  >   businessman Stanislaw Tyminski. President Tadeusz Maziwoecki was
>  knocked
>  >   out of race. Walesa would eventually win.
>  >    ---
>  >      On this day in 1992, the Czechoslovak Parliament voted to dissolve
>  >   the country at the end of the year into separate Czech and Slovak
>  >   states.
>  >    ---
>  >      Also on this day in 1992, a blizzard dumped up to 19 inches of
>  snow
>  >   in the Plains states...stranding motorists and snarling Thanksgiving
>  >   travel plans.
>  >    ---
>  >      Those born on this date include industrialist Andrew Carnegie in
>  >   1835...pioneer German automoble designer Karl Benz in 1844...social
>  >   reformer Carry Nation in 1846...German mathematician Felix Klein in
>  >   1849...and Pope John the 23rd in 1881.
>  >
>  >      Celebrating birthdays today are New York Yankees slugger Joe
>  >   DiMaggio, born in 1914...and actor Ricardo Montalban, in 1920.
>  >
>  >      Actress Kathryn Crosby was born on this day in 1933.
>  >      Actor John Larroquette ("Night Court") was born on this day in
>  >   1947.
>  >      George magazine editor John F. Kennedy Jr. was born on this day in
>  >   1960.
>  >      And actress Christina Applegate was born on this day in 1971.
>  >    ---
>  >      We now return you to the present...already in progress.
>  >    ---
>  >      Copyright 1998 by United Press International.
>  >      All rights reserved.
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