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Good morning, it’s Tuesday November 27 and after a chilly start it should warm up into the 60s. It’s been a year since President Bush gave the go-ahead to open US highways to Mexican trucks, but only a select few are on the road.
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Good morning, it’s Tuesday, November 27, the 331st day of 2007. There are 34 days left in the year. After a chilly start, temperatures should rise into the 60s under a sunny sky.
A year ago today, President Bush gave the go-ahead to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks. But the issue remains the focus of a fight on a number of fronts including the courts and Capitol Hill, and so far only a select few truckers are actually enjoying free access to U.S. roadways.
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Children’s wagons filled with pumpkins greet visitors on Main Street in Salado at an annual fall fundraiser for St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church. The photo was taken by Fred Daschofsky of Gatesville and was selected for the 2007 KWTX Hometown Calendar. Click here for information about the 2008 KWTX Hometown Calendar.
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Today's Highlight in Local History:
On November 27, 1941, Louisiana unsuccessfully challenged Texas’ eastern border, insisting that it extended not to the center, but just to the west bank of the Sabine River.
Today's Highlight in History:
On November 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.
On This Date:
In 1701, astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad began service at New York's Pennsylvania Station.
In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special U.S. envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.
In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.
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 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
In 1989, a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca jetliner, killing all 107 people on board.
Ten years ago:
A day after saying it would open its presidential palaces to international observers, Iraq declared that U.N. weapons monitors were not included in the invitation. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York was marred when a gust of wind knocked part of a lamppost onto a 34-year-old woman, fracturing her skull and leaving her in a coma for almost a month.
Five years ago:
U.N. specialists began a new round of weapons inspections in Iraq. President Bush appointed former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to lead an investigation into why the government failed to foil the September 11th attacks. (The following month, Kissinger stepped down, citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his business clients.) President Bush gave the go-ahead to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks.
One year ago:
President Bush, stopping over in Estonia en route to a NATO summit in Latvia and meetings in Jordan, intensified diplomatic efforts to quell rising violence in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fire burned down a group home for the elderly and mentally ill in Anderson, Missouri, killing 10 residents and a caretaker.
Today's Birthdays:
Actor James Avery is 59. TV host Bill Nye ("Bill Nye, the Science Guy") is 52. Actor William Fichtner is 51. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is 50. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) is 48. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) is 45. Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith
No More) is 45. Actor Fisher Stevens is 44. Actress Robin Givens is 43. Actor Michael Vartan is 39. Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX) is 37. Rapper Twista is 35. Actor Jaleel White is 31.
Thought for Today:
"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life." -- Eugene O'Neill, American playwright (1888-1953).
(Source: Associated Press)
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