Today is Tuesday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2002. There are 56 days left in the year. This is

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2002. There are 56 days left in the year. This is Election Day.
On this date in 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" fails as Guy Fawkes is seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. In 1911, Calbraith P. Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, Calif., completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49 days. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson is elected president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft. In 1940, President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in office as he defeats Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie. In 1944, British official Lord Moyne is assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang. In 1946, Republicans capture control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections. In 1968, Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. In 1974, Ella T. Grasso is elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband. In 1989, death claims pianist Vladimir Horowitz in New York at age 85 and singer-songwriter Barry Sadler in Murfreesboro, Tenn., at age 49. In 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, is shot to death at a New York hotel. (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair is convicted of the slaying in federal court.) In 1996, voters return President Clinton to the White House for a second term but keep Congress in Republican control.
November 5, 1977: The Lykes Corp. agrees in principle to merge with the LTV Corp., the parent of Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Co., but just how steelmaking in the Mahoning Valley might be affected is uncertain.
The new span connecting Chester, W. Va., with East Liverpool, Ohio, will be named the Jennings Randolph Bridge, in honor of the senior West Virginia senator. Gov. Jay Rockefeller calls Randolph "the country's most authoritative spokesman for a modern highway system."
The Youngstown Hospital Association has begun scaling down services at its three hospitals after receiving notification that service employees will not work unless they get a new contract.
November 5, 1962: The numbers trial of Joseph "Joey" Naples is stopped almost before it begins when the state's evidence disappears from a Mahoning County Common Pleas courtroom. The evidence, including bug slips and numbers work sheets, was left on a table in the courtroom by assistant prosecutors Loren E. Van Brocklin and Clyde W. Osborne while they were in Judge John W. Ford's chambers with Naples' defense attorney.
A tear gas bomb set for automatic detonation thwarts safecrackers attempting to make a haul at the Borden Dairy milk products plant, 6330 Market Street.
George Vallos, 62, a proprietor of Champion Recreation Center and one of Youngstown's top bowling stars, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital after collapsing at the Arena Bowling Lanes. He had competed in American Bowling Congress tournaments for 38 years and had an average of 190-plus.
The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority's newest low-rent housing development, a 348-unit project, is being named the P.L. Strait Homes in honor of the authority's former director.
November 5, 1952: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. John W. Bricker win smashing Republican victories in Ohio, but Democratic Gov. Frank J. Lausche bucks the trend to gain an unprecedented fourth term. In Mahoning County, Adlai Stevenson outpolls Eisenhower, 67,557 to 53,039.
Boardman Township voters turn down incorporation by a convincing margin, 5,967 to 1,654. Also rejected is a .75-mill levy for a swimming pool in Boardman Park and renewal of a 1.5-mill operating levy for the township.
Congressman Michael J. Kirwan does it again, wins his ninth consecutive term, swamping his latest Republican rival, Allen Russell, head of Russell Hardwood Floor Co. of Youngstown.
November 5, 1927: An unidentified man in his early 20s is killed by an automobile in the Market St. bridge and the body is run over by a half dozen automobiles before it is realized that the object in the roadway is a man.
Franklin P. Erck, printing instructor at Rayen School, is named commander of Youngstown Post 15 of the American Legion.
Maj. Mario De Bernardi, Italian flying ace, attains a speed of more than 300 miles an hour in his hydroairplane during a test over the Venice-Lido course, smashing all existing records for speed.