Today is Thursday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2002. There are 47 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2002. There are 47 days left in the year. On this date in 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 1,000 level for the first time, ending the day at 1003.16.
In 1851, Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick" is first published. In 1881, Charles J. Guiteau goes on trial for assassinating President Garfield. (Guiteau is convicted and hanged the following year.) In 1922, the British Broadcasting Corp. begins its domestic radio service. In 1935, President Roosevelt proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth. In 1940, during WWII, German planes destroy most of the English town of Coventry. In 1943, an American torpedo is mistakenly fired at the U.S. battleship Iowa, which was carrying President Roosevelt and his joint chiefs to the Tehran conference; the torpedo explodes harmlessly in the Iowa's wake. In 1943, Leonard Bernstein, the 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, makes his debut with the orchestra as he fills in for the ailing Bruno Walter during a nationally broadcast concert. In 1944, Tommy Dorsey and Orchestra record "Opus No. 1" for RCA Victor. In 1969, Apollo 12 blasts off for the moon. In 1973, Britain's Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey. (They divorce in 1992, and Anne re-marries.)
November 14, 1977: Local 627 of the Service Employees International Union strike the Youngstown Hospital Association, setting up picket lines at South Side, North Side and Tod Babies and Children's hospitals.
Warren Safety-Service Director Robert L. Dawson announces a four-step program to meet federal and state minority hiring requirements.
Some 7,000 elementary school children in Mahoning County are "reading for the needs of others" in the Multiple Sclerosis Read-a-thon. Participation is twice what it was a year before.
November 14, 1962: The body of Mrs. Mary Kakish, 69, a widow, is found in the kitchen of her Mabel St. home on Youngstown's South Side. She had been slashed to death, apparently by an intruder who cut the outside phone lines of the house and entered by breaking the glass in a back door.
Dr. Ernest O. Melby, speaking at the annual Family Life Institute in Youngstown, says the American community is taking on new importance at a time when the individual human being is in danger of being lost in a world of vast labor combines, business enterprises and big government.
The president of a Dayton liquor distributor, called to testify before a grand jury in Columbus investigating allegations that distillers were forced to make payoffs to get their brands carried in Ohio's monopoly liquor stores, takes the fifth amendment.
November 14, 1952: Two hundred alleged cases of tax fraud by rackets figures are under investigation in the Cleveland collection district, Bureau of Internal Revenue officials announce.
The Wilford P. Arms estate on Logan Road extension is sold to William F. Stewart, executive vice president of the FitzSimons Steel Co. The 110-acre estate includes a lake and was landscaped under the direction of Mr. Arms.
Through the cooperation of the Youngstown Federation of Women's Clubs and outside groups, members of 34 clubs assist the Mahoning Chapter of the Red Cross to wrap 150 Christmas gifts to be distributed to servicemen on ships at sea.
Trumbull County commissioners order all Trumbull officeholders to cease purchasing supplies until further notice because the county has no money to pay for them.
November 14, 1927: Fourteen persons are known to have died and more than 500 are injured when the world's largest natural gas storage tank explodes at the Manchester works of Equitable Gas. Co. in Ohio. Debris was spread over a square mile area on the banks of the Ohio River.
Waterfowl numbering 687 individuals of 11 species are listed in the Youngstown district by H.W. Welsgerber, Edward Minich and W.D. Rook, who conducted the census as part of a nationwide study by the Department of Agriculture.
An ordinance authorizing the employment of 24 new policemen and eight firemen is being prepared for consideration by Youngstown City Council.