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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