Today is Tuesday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2002. There are 42 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2002. There are 42 days left in the year. On this date in 1863, President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address as he dedicates a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
In 1794, the United States and Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which resolves some issues left over from the Revolutionary War. In 1919, the Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification. In 1942, during WWII, Russian forces launch their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front. In 1949, Monaco holds a coronation for its new ruler, Prince Rainier III, six months after he succeeds his grandfather, Prince Louis II.
November 19, 1977: Fourteen Toronto-area headquartered industrial firms that might be interested in locating new job-creating facilities in the Youngstown have been identified by N. Laird Eckman, director of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce's Regional Growth Division. Eckman was a member of an Ohio Development Department team that took a week-long trip to Canada.
The Mahoning Valley Economic Development Committee picks the Battelle Memorial Institute, a Columbus think tank widely experienced in urban planning, to help the committee rebuild the economy of Greater Youngstown.
U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-19th, is one of 15 members of Congress on an official visit to Egypt and Israel and will witness the historic speech of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Israeli Knesset.
November 19, 1962: The Austintown board of Education is debating whether to call a special election on a 3-mill school operating levy. More than 100 members of the Austintown Council of Parent-Teacher Associations obtain 4,130 signatures asking for a special election and raise $2,203 toward the cost of the election.
The benign Indian statue quietly guarding the front of the Butler Institute of American Art on Wick Ave. is swathed with red and green "warpaint" by vandals. Curator Ed Perkins says removal of the paint will be a slow process to guard against damaging the bronze statue's delicate surface. The vandalism followed by a few days the smearing of red paint on a bronze plaque in front of Youngstown University.
Columbus, Ohio, stands to gain up to 2,000 Defense Department jobs, according to a Detroit Free Press report that says the defense automotive supply center is being moved from Detroit to Columbus.
November 19., 1952: Thousands of friends of the Most Rev. James A. McFadden, bishop of Youngstown, pass by the bishop's bier in endless lines at St. Columba Cathedral. Meanwhile a 125-pound doe that ran wild on the North Side is captured in the basement of the cathedral by Vindicator reporter Stephen L. Ritz, photographer Lloyd S. Jones and Joseph McCullion, operator of a Wood St. parking lot.
A new plan for streamlining Central Square is being developed by the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce for presentation to city council and the state highway department. It would provide for four lanes of straight traffic north-south and east-west.
Innocent pleas are entered before Municipal Judge John W. Powers by three men charged in connection with a brawl at Local 207, Structural Iron Workers Union.
Russell McKay, president of Home Savings & amp; Loan Co., receives special recognition of his outstanding civic work at the Chamber of Commerce annual dinner.
November 19, 1927: Ground is broken for the new Hillman Street Christian Church which will rise at Avondale Avenue and Hillman Street at a cost of $100,000.
John Reese, a prominent Girard resident, lies in wait for his wife and shoots her in the temple as she walks into the kitchen. He then turns the gun on himself. Police say the couple was having domestic problems.
East High students are reported pleased with the initial issue of the Echo, a student newspaper being produced by the journalism and commercial departments of the school. Nathan Rabinowitz is the editor-in-chief.
Three Youngstown gasoline filling station managers and the woman proprietor of a store are held up and robbed of more than $500, all within two hours.