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Today's Highlight in History:

On November 26th, 1942, the motion picture "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.

On this date:

In 1832, public streetcar service began in New York City. The fare: 12 and a-half cents.



In 1825, the first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York.



In 1940, the half-million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.



In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December first.



In 1949, India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.



In 1950, China entered the Korean conflict, launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the US and South Korea.



In 1965, France launched its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit.



In 1973, President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 18-and-a-half-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.



In 1975, a federal jury in Sacramento, California, found Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford.



In 1986, President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Senator John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.



Ten years ago: Hungary held a national referendum in which voters decided that the country's next president would be chosen by parliament, following free elections.



Five years ago: Thirty clergymen were elevated to the rank of cardinal in a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope John Paul the Second. Margaret Garrish, a 72-year-old Detroit woman, committed suicide in the presence of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.



One year ago: In the first speech ever by a British prime minister to an Irish parliament, Tony Blair predicted that Northern Ireland's troubled peace accord would ultimately work because of a strengthened cooperative spirit uniting Britain and Ireland. In India, at least 211 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of Punjab.



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