25 Years Ago

 It's November 1981. Buckingham Palace announces that Diana, Princess of Wales, is expecting a baby in June.

 Katherine Hepburn, 72, returns to Broadway in the comedy West Side Waltz.

 The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on its second mission with astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly.

 Actor William Holden, 63, dies from injuries suffered in a fall in his apartment. Holden, who won an Oscar for his performance in Stalag 17 was the best man at President Reagan's wedding to Nancy in 1952.

 Susan St. James marries Dick Ebersole, producer of Saturday Night Live.

 Actor Jack Albertson, 74, dies of cancer. He was best known for his role in the TV show Chico and the Man.

 Actress Natalie Woods, 43, accidentally drowns while she and her husband, Robert Wagner, are  spending the night on their yacht The Splendor near Catalina Island. A former child actress, Woods played the little girl who learns to believe in Santa Claus in the 1947 movie  Miracle on 34th Street.

 Juanita Crabb is elected the first woman mayor of Binghamton.  

 Fowler's Department Store, Binghamton's oldest and last department store, closes. 

 The Ritz Theater on Clinton Street in Binghamton, which recently switched from showing X-rated movies to second-run family movies, is saved from closing when it is sold. The new owners plan to renovate the theater and eventually show first-run movies.

 At the Forum, Dawn Wells and Richard Ryder appear in They're Playing Our Song Tickets cost $13.50 to $15.50.

 A Veteran's Day parade is held in downtown Owego.

 The Giant-Oakdale Shopping Center in Johnson City celebrates its grand opening. 

 The A&P at the Endicott Plaza will close next month. It was the first store to open at the plaza in the early 1960s, and was the last A&P store in Broome County.

 Masterpiece Theatre airs the final episode of its first non-British series, A Town Like Alice. 

 The TV show Father Murphy starring Merlin Olsen premieres.

 Thirty million people tune in General Hospital to watch Luke and Laura get married.

 Movies playing in local theaters include Arthur, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Time Bandits, Gallipoli, Southern Comfort, Breaker Morant, and Absence of Malice. 

 Top tunes include Physical by Olivia Newton-John, Private Eyes by Hall and Oates, Waiting for a Girl Like You by Foreigner, Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones, and Here I Am by Air Supply.

 And a Betamax SL-5800 video recorder sells for $995.

 Happy Thanksgiving.