Today is Wednesday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2002. There are 41 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2002. There are 41 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in a ceremony broadcast worldwide from Westminster Abbey.
In 1789, New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. In 1910, revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero. In 1925, Robert F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Mass. In 1929, the radio program "The Rise of the Goldbergs" debuts on the NBC Blue Network. In 1959, the United Nations issues its "Declaration of the Rights of the Child." In 1967, the Census Clock at the Commerce Department ticks past 200 million. In 1969, the Nixon administration announces a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout. In 1975, after nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain's General Francisco Franco dies, two weeks before his 83rd birthday. In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
November 20, 1977: Paul C. Wigton, manager of the Mahoning Valley District of the Republic Steel Corp., says his company's operations in the Youngstown district are not immune to the American steel industry crisis. Mahoning Valley mills account for 23 percent of Republic's national output.
An unexpected manpower shortage puts security at the Mahoning County jail in the hands of one man and county roads unpatrolled for a brief period. Due to a mix-up, reserve deputies did not show up for midnight turn to replace deputies who had been given the night off.
Two former Trumbull County judges, Thomas MacDonald and George Buchwalter, failed to list a backlog of nearly 250 cases in their annual reports to the Ohio Supreme Court. The incorrect reports covered 1972 to 1976.
November 20, 1962: Youngstown Board of Education members are meeting to find ways of cutting $500,000 from the budget following the loss of a 2.8-mill levy.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. will build its huge research center, one of the basic steel industry's finest and most elaborate, at Boardman, adjacent to its general office building. The cost is estimated at more than $4 million.
Fire guts the Dickson Restaurant and Don's Grill in the S. Mercer St. business district of Greenville. Damage is estimated at $80,000.
November 20, 1952: Edward Cardinal Mooney, archbishop of Detroit, presides at the funeral Mass of Youngstown Bishop James A. McFadden at St. Columba Cathedral and Archbishop Karl Alter of Cincinnati delivers the sermon. More than 3,000 persons, including hundreds of priests and nuns, fill the cathedral to overflowing.
Del Courtney, manager of Hotel Pick-Ohio, is elected a new member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Seven other directors were re-elected, says H.R. Packard, executive director of the chamber.
A complete portable television receiver functions perfectly in tests conducted by RCA in Princeton, N.J., without radio vacuum tubes. Instead, it utilized 37 bits of laboratory magic known as transistors.
November 20, 1927: Youngstown Law Director William E. Lewis says critics who object to a joint water district between Youngstown and Niles on the basis of projected costs are off the mark. Lewis says water will cost Youngstown just 21/4 cents per thousand gallons for the first 25 years.
Two Youngstown firemen are overcome by smoke while fighting an early morning fire in the basement of the People's Market, 35 S. Watt St.
Memories of Morgan's raid on Southeastern Ohio during the Civil War are uncovered by excavators building a bridge over Leading Creek in Meigs County. Huge logs were found that local old-timers say were part of a span that Morgan forced residents of the area to build for his confederate troops to use.