1990 – 25 years ago
• Rochester Lourdes senior basketball standout Lori Lawler has selected the University of Minnesota to continue her education and basketball career.
• Stevenson's women's apparel store at Apace Mall will close after 68 years of operation in the city of Rochester. Stevenson's opened in Rochester in 1922 in a building on the southwest corner of Broadway and First Street Southwest, where the Galleria shopping center now stands.
1965 – 50 years ago
• New Rochester Lourdes boys basketball coach Orris Jirele is a former high school (Austin Pacelli) and college (St. Bonaventure) cage great in his own right. This year's team has no lettermen returning.
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• It was announced that the Cassius Clay-Floyd Patterson heavyweight championship will be presented at the Mayo Civic Auditorium via closed circuit television. Tickets for the showing are $5.
1940 – 75 years ago
• Record November cold has sent the mercury to -24 in Minneapolis. Some roads are open but not at the full width. Cautious or limited travel is still advised. Three freighters on the Great Lakes and many sailors were lost during the ferocious storm. Freighters that sank were SS Anna C. Minch, SS Novadoc and SS William Davock.
• Joe Fritsch, Mayo Clinic doorman, reported that the wind was the strongest he had ever experienced. Many persons lost their hats. They were carried away with such swiftness that they'd be a couple of blocks down the street before one could get started after them.
1915 – 100 years ago
• The Case Auto Co. has received a carload of Studebakers. A real beauty is the 50 horsepower runabout, which is included in the shipment.
• Nine Rochester pastors, members of the Ministerial Association, were seated at the get together banquet at the Cook House this noon.
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Ten years ago: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Jerusalem, strongly rebuked Iran's leadership, saying "no civilized nation" can call for the annihilation of another — a reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remark that Israel should be "wiped off the map." An Iraqi woman arrested by Jordanian authorities confessed on television to trying to blow herself up with her husband in one of the three Nov. 9 suicide attacks in Amman. American Indian historian and activist Vine Deloria Jr. died at age 72.
Five years ago: Pro-democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi walked free in Myanmar after more than seven years under house arrest. Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel officially announced his ultimately successful candidacy for mayor of Chicago.
One year ago: The European Space Agency published the first images taken from the surface of a comet; the photos sent back to Earth showed a rocky surface, with one of the lander's three feet in the corner of the frame. Clayton Kershaw became the first pitcher to win the National League MVP award since Bob Gibson in 1968; Los Angeles Angels' outfielder Mike Trout was a unanimous pick for the AL MVP.
Today's birthdays: Actress Madeleine Sherwood is 93. Journalist-author Peter Arnett is 81. Producer-director Garry Marshall is 81. Actor Jimmy Hawkins is 74. Country singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard is 69. Actor Joe Mantegna is 68. Actress Sheila Frazier is 67. Actress Frances Conroy is 62. Musician Andrew Ranken (The Pogues) is 62. Actress Tracy Scoggins is 62. Actor Chris Noth (nohth) is 61. Actress-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is 60. Actor Rex Linn is 59. Actress Caroline Goodall is 56. Actor Neil Flynn is 55. Former NFL quarterback and College Football Hall of Famer Vinny Testaverde is 52. Rock musician Walter Kibby (Fishbone) is 51. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel is 48. Actor Steve Zahn is 48. Actor Gerard Butler is 46. Writer-activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali is 46. Actor Jordan Bridges is 42. Actress Aisha Hinds is 40. Rock musician Nikolai Fraiture is 37. NBA All-Star Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest) is 36. Actress Monique Coleman is 35. Actor Rahul Kohli (TV: "iZombie") is 30.
