Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2003. There are 56 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2003. There are 56 days left in the year. 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 Franklin 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 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.
November 5, 1978: Gov. James A. Rhodes will recommend to the General Assembly that $10 million in state money be channeled to the Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley to reopen unused portions of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s Campbell Works.
The United Appeal goal of $2.1 millions is exceeded by a scant $122, according to the agency's figures. It marks the first time in four years that the goal has been achieved.
The re-election campaign of Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-19th, spent $49,569 during the first 23 days of October, according to a report filed with the Federal Elections commission. His Republican opponent, Lyle Williams, spent $36,760 during the same period.
November 5, 1963: An estimated 5,800 individuals, including 2,100 women, are unemployed in Mahoning County in September, the Bureau of Unemployment reports. The figure represents 5.3 percent of the county's civilian workforce.
General Motors Corp. will pay common stockholders $1.1 billion in 1963, by far the richest dividend distribution ever made by a business enterprise.
Playing at the Caravan Super Club on Route 422, two miles west of New Castle, the Glen Miller Orchestra under the direction of Ray McKinley.
November 5, 1953: Ten white patients at the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Kirk Road, walk out in protest over the moving of two Negro women into a ward occupied by six white women. The sanatorium trustees and Dr. H.H. Teitelbaugm, hospital superintendent, have announced the sanatorium will be integrated, after a meeting with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Nathaniel Jones, editor of The Buckeye Review, a Negro newspaper, was a patient last spring.
The season's first snowfall comes to the Youngstown district, covering roofs and lawns in many places and making streets and highways dangerous in spots.
Youngstown's mayor and mayor elect will take short vacations to recover from strenuous campaigns for the mayoralty. Mayor Charles Henderson and his wife are leaving for Cape Cod; Mayor-elect Frank X. Kryzan and Mrs. Kryzan are going to New York City.
November 5, 1928: Fourteen master commissioners named to investigate legal conditions in Mahoning County report "gross irregularity and a total disregard of the law" on the part of five justices of the peace. In the report, filed with common pleas judges, the commissioners say the justices were using their offices as private collection agencies.
D.L. "Stravy" Thomas, former Youngstown city detective and a recent member of the vice squad for a short time, is arrested in Beaver Falls on a charge of transporting and possessing liquor. Two gallons of liquor was found in Thomas' auto.