TUESDAY INHISTORY

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2017. There are 40 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On Nov. 21,1942, the Alaska Highway, also known as the Alcan Highway, was formally opened at Soldier’s Summit in the Yukon Territory.

On this date:

In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a letter expressing condolences to Lydia B ix by, a Boston widow whose five sons supposedly died while fighting in the Civil War. (As it turned out, only two of Mrs. Bixby’s sons had been killed.)

In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton, a Georgia Democrat, was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate; her term, the result of an interim appointment, ended the following day asWalter F. George, the winner of a special election, took office.

In 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed.

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s attorney revealed the existence of an 18-1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

In1974, bomb sex plode data pair of pubs in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people. (Six suspects were convicted of the attack, but the convictions of the so-called “Birmingham Six” were overturned in 1991.)

In 1992, a three-day tornado outbreak that struck 13 states began in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern U.S.; 26 people were killed.

Ten years ago: Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children’s jewelry contaminated with lead.

Five years ago: Israel and the Hamas militant group in Gaza agreed to a cease-fire to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years.

One year ago: An elementary school bus crash in Chattanooga, Tenn., claimed the lives of six children.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Joseph Campanella is 93. Singer Dr. John is 77. Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 73. Actress Goldie Hawn is 72. Movie director Andrew Davis is 71. Gospel singer Steven Curtis Chapman is 55. Singer-actress Bjork is 52. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman is 51. Footballplayer-turned-TV personality Michael Strahan is 46. Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen is 32.

Thought for Today: “You simply cannot hang a millionaire in America.” — Bourke Cockran, American politician and orator (1854-1923).