Today is Wednesday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2002. There are 48 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2002. There are 48 days left in the year. On this date in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington.
In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opens to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River. In 1940, the Walt Disney animated movie "Fantasia" has its world premiere in New York. In 1942, the minimum draft age is lowered from 21 to 18. In 1956, the Supreme Court strikes down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. In 1971, the U.S. space probe Mariner Nine goes into orbit around Mars. In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., dies in a car crash. In 1977, the comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appears in newspapers for the last time. In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, dies when a gigantic mudslide buries the city.
November 13, 1977: Bill Rogers of Boston, Mass., wins the 25-kilometer Peace Race in 1 hour, 17 minutes and 37 seconds. About 1,100 runners cover the course from Federal Plaza through Mill Creek Park and back to the plaza.
The Youngstown Street Department could muster no more than eight trucks when the city was hit by its first snow storm of the year. Mayor Jack C. Hunter says City Council didn't appropriate the money needed for new equipment.
Trumbull Savings and Loan Co. holds its grand opening for the new main office in downtown Warren at High and Park. Grand price is an Amana Radarange, which cooks food in a fourth of the time and uses 75 percent less electricity than conventional cooking.
November 13, 1962: The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of Youngstown, returns home from the Ecumenical Council in Rome. He arrived in New York aboard the liner Constitution and then took a Pennsylvania Railroad train to Youngstown.
William D. Whitney, cashier of the Farmers National Bank, Conneautville, Pa., is named president of the Dollar Savings Bank Co. of Niles, coincident with the retirement of Col. William H. Hamrick, president, and John H. Fusco, vice president and secretary.
A crowd of 15,000 lines Central Square eight-deep for the annual Veterans Day parade, which featured 100 units. Many who came downtown to shop saw the parade as a bonus.
More than $110,000 is cut from the 1962-63 budget of the Austintown Local Schools as the board of education begins adjusting to a tighter budget and the sound defeat of a 3-mill operating levy and bond issue. Closing all kindergarten classes will save $53,800 and discharging three nurses will save $11,628.
November 13, 1952: A gray fox that attacked and bit Mrs. Frances Osterling of Poland Township had rabies, says Mahoning County Dog Warden Daniel E. Pecchio. She has begun receiving antirabies vaccine. The fox jumped from a wooded area and bit Mrs. Osterling on the left knee and ankle. She strangled the fox with her hands, which allowed authorities to test the animal's carcass.
Judge Forrest J. Cavalier begins displaying a small black flag in his Youngstown Municipal Courtroom for 24 hours after the city registers a traffic fatality.
Fifty motorists are arrested for crashing a newly installed traffic light on Lincoln Park bridge in its first two days of operation. City police will continue to monitor the intersection 24 hours a day.
A 45-year-old Negro man is given a six-month suspended jail sentence in Yanceyville, N.C., and put on probation for five years after being found guilty of assault on a 17-year-old white girl by "leering" at her from a distance of about 75 feet.
November 13, 1927: The new Youngstown-Erie Terminal Co. warehouse is introduced to the public of Youngstown by its sponsors as the dawn of a new era in Youngstown's prosperity and future. The building, the largest in Youngstown, occupies 420 feet by 87 feet along the Erie tracks between North and Belmont avenues.
The new $48 million Holland tunnel -- a submarine boulevard linking New York City and Jersey City under the Hudson River-- is formally opened with elaborate ceremonies on both sides of the river.
"Ben Hur," the super-special photoplay at Youngstown's Hippodrome is attracting large crowds of school children to the theater to see the film because of its biblical and historical interest. Teachers have been bringing whole classes to the show.