Today is Saturday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2002. There are 52 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2002. There are 52 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurs as several states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
In 1872, fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston. In 1918, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announces he would abdicate. He then flees to the Netherlands. In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders form the Committee for Industrial Organization. In 1938, Nazis loot and burn synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what becomes known as "Kristallnacht." In 1953, author-poet Dylan Thomas dies in New York at age 39. In 1963, twin disasters strike Japan as some 450 miners are killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people die in a train crash. In 1970, former French president Charles De Gaulle dies at age 79. In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approves 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate." In 1988, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, dies in Washington at age 75. In 1989, communist East Germany throws open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans dance atop the Berlin Wall.
November 9, 1977: Democrat J. Phillip Richley is elected mayor of Youngstown in a three-way race. Richley got 22,349 votes; Emanuel Catsoules, 14,586; Ron Daniels, independent, 8,134.
Rose DeGise and Annabelle Bodnar, in what may have been the most stunning victory of election day in Youngstown, soundly defeat two of three incumbents on the Youngstown Board of Education. The two women were members and leaders in the Citizens for the Rights of the Majority.
The Mahoning County half-percent piggyback tax levied by commissioners to raise revenue for bridges, the county home and other purposes, is repealed by a five-to-one vote.
November 9, 1962: U.S. Treasury agents raid five alleged gambling joints in Mahoning, Trumbull and Stark counties, arresting six persons and confiscating several unlicensed pinball machines.
A small arsenal of guns introduced into evidence in the trial of Joseph "Joey" Naples are taken from the Mahoning County Courthouse to a vault in the Mahoning National Bank, where they will be held for safekeepng, pending Naples' possible appeal of his conviction on charges of receiving stolen property. Several of the guns had been stolen from Stambaugh Thompson Co.
Yeggs open a vault at the Army Reserve Center, 399 Miller St., Youngstown and take an inoperable 30-caliber machine gun and six 45-caliber pistols.
President Kennedy gives United Fund of Washington, D.C., its largest gift ever, $220,000 that was left over from the presidential inauguration of 1961.
November 9, 1952: The ground is so hard that it takes an electric drill to break the surface and the drought has left many wells in the Youngstown district at their lowest point in 20 years.
In the year since Felice Pipolo took the helm of the American Limoges China Corp. in Sebring he has taken a sick company to one where production has increased by 15 percent and four kilns are kept working 24 hours a day. Pipolo predicts the company, which has been operating for more than 50 years, will be around for another 50.
Book review: Few writers in our generation have made such a resounding comeback as Ernest Hemingway has done with his superb short novel, "The Old Man and the Sea."
November 9: 1927: In one of the most hectic elections in Youngstown history, Judge Joseph L. Heffernan of the municipal court defeats Finance Director Arthur H. Williams for mayor by a margin of 343. Heffernan got 14,369; Williams, 14,026, and Frank Vogran, former county treasurer, 7,206. Four other candidates who had withdrawn got 1,112 votes.
For the first time in Youngstown's history, a colored man will sit on Youngstown's city council. He is W.S. Vaughn, who was elected from the Third Ward.
Youngstown gets its first taste of big time elections via the radio when WKBN broadcasts results as they are phoned in to the YMCA building.
Area winners in mayoral races: David J. Rees in Girard; W.C. Kilpatrick, Warren; T. Roy Gordon, Campbell; George Marshall, Niles; Thomas Roberts, Struthers; P.G. Hiddleston, Salem and C.F. White, Hubbard.