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Way back when: Today in history
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Jeffrey Dahmer in 1991

By GENE CURTIS
Published: 11/28/2009 2:20 AM
Last Modified: 11/28/2009 6:13 AM

1934

Tulsa is on U.S. 75, one of the five superhighways proposed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. That highway would stretch from the Canadian to the Mexican border. Tulsa also was on a connecting highway, No. 66, that would link to St. Louis, Mo.

1941

With World War II not yet a year old for the United States, coffee rationing had begun and gasoline rationing would start Dec. 1. J.W. "Jack" Bates, chairman of the Tulsa County Rationing Board, explained that stamp No. 27 in every adult's ration book would be valid for one pound of coffee that must last until Jan. 3, which was about one cup a day.

1994

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who strangled and dismembered 17 boys and men and cannibalized some of them, was murdered in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate. Dahmer had been sentenced to 16 life prison terms for slayings in Ohio and Wisconsin.

2001

Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion deal to take it over. Investors went on a record one-day rush to unload shares — 339 million of them — that sent Enron stock down 85 percent. By the end of the trading day, one Enron share was worth 61 cents, less than a sixth of the price of a hot dog at Enron Field in Houston.

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By GENE CURTIS

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	Report Comment Elusive, Owasso (11/28/2009 3:18:19 AM) 1941: One cup of coffee a day would probably bring down our domestic violence rate and make for more pleasant coworkers. 1994: Jeffrey the sicko Dahmer, enough said don't want to think about it. 2001: Enron, oh my I couldn't begin to say how lives they affected, mine included.
	Report Comment my view, Sand Springs (11/28/2009 8:49:31 AM) 11/28/1941..."World War II not yet a year old". The United States didn't enter the war until the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 1941.
	Report Comment aint missbehavin, .. (11/29/2009 1:33:52 AM) my mom talks of the stamp days.rationing food.Those was pretty hard days back then.The ole timers could tell ya some stories.Sack flower,sack of beans and ya got potatoes out of the garden.Walk for miles to school with wired up shoes,the snow hittin ya in the buttocks...remember?everyones folks said basicly the same thing.Mine are no different.

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