Today is Sunday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2002. There are 44 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2002. There are 44 days left in the year. On this date in 1800, Congress holds its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
In 1558, Elizabeth I ascends the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary. In 1869, the Suez Canal opens in Egypt. In 1917, sculptor Auguste Rodin dies in Meudon, France. In 1925, actor Rock Hudson is born in Winnetka, Ill. In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird." In 1962, Washington's Dulles International Airport is dedicated by President Kennedy. In 1968, NBC TV angers football fans by cutting away from the closing minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. (Viewers are deprived of seeing the Raiders come from behind to beat the Jets, 43-32.) In 1970, the Soviet Union lands an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod I. In 1973, President Nixon tells Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." In 1979, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
November 17, 1977: Employment in the district's steel industry receives another setback as Republic Steel Corp. announces that it will shut down its No. 1 blast furnace for an indefinite period, idling 60 workers.
Gov. James a Rhodes indicates that the Miller Brewing Co. has narrowed its choice of a site for a giant brewery to five sites, with the Youngstown area still under consideration.
All Youngstown wage earners will have to file city income tax returns as the city attempts to find more money for its coffers. City council approves a mandatory filing system that it expects will cost $24,000 to implement but will raise $300,000 in missing revenue.
November 17, 1962: Pat Appulese of Youngstown has been a big surprise at Arizona State University football camp, where the sophomore has been a starting tackle with the Sun Devils, who are unbeaten to date.
Heroic Pvt. Michael A. Murray, 17-year-old West Side paratrooper who survived the ditching of the Flying Tiger Constellation in the icy Atlantic, arrives home for a 10-day Thanksgiving furlough.
U.S. Steel Corp. will dismiss some of its management personnel, including some in the Youngstown district, because of adverse business conditions.
Vandals smear red paint on a large stone and bronze plaque in front of Youngstown University. The stone and plaque were presented to the school by the 1949 graduating class.
November 17, 1952: Capt. William C. Moskosky, 29, a physician and former Chaney student, and Pfc. Byron, Pittman, 23, Struthers athlete, are among 44 servicemen killed in the crash of an Air Force transport en route to Korea from Japan.
The Most Rev. James A. McFadden, first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown and spiritual leader of 200,000 Catholics in six northeastern Ohio counties, dies in St. Elizabeth hospital. He was 71. The Most Rev. Emmet Michael Walsh, coadjutor of the diocese since 1949, is now spiritual head of the Youngstown See.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Butler III of Walkers-Mill Road, Poland, are home from a 10-month stay in Majorca and are busy unpacking crates of oils and watercolors that they painted during their stay. About 40 of their paintings and sketches will be exhibited in February at the Butler Art Institute at the invitation of the trustees.
November 17, 1927: The new Poland High School, standing on the site of the seminary at which William McKinley was once a student and Ida M. Tarbell, historian , once a teacher, is nearing completion. The new school is built of brick in a colonial style and contains 11 classrooms, and domestic science rooms and laboratories, making it one of the most modern schools in the county.
Contributions amounting to $6,150 were received by the committee of Joe Heffernan for Mayor and expenses totaled $6,494, leaving a deficit of $344, according to a statement filed with the Board of Elections.
Ohio farmers attending the State Grange convention in Columbus pass resolutions opposing any proposal for federal control of education and expressing a believe that "athletics have come to occupy too large a portion of our school children's time."