Today is Saturday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2003. There are 53 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2003. There are 53 days left in the year. On this date in 1923, Adolf Hitler launches his first attempt at seizing power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, called the "Beer-Hall Putsch."
In 1837, Mount Holyoke Seminary, a college exclusively for women, opens in South Hadley, Mass. In 1889, Montana becomes the 41st state. In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency. In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed. In 1942, Operation Torch begins during World War II as U.S. and British forces land in French North Africa.
November 8, 1978: Lyle Williams, 36, of Lordstown, wins election as the first Republican in 42 years to represent the 19th Congressional District. He defeats the Democratic incumbent, Charles Carney, 71,267 to 69,375.
Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes wins an unprecedented fourth term as Ohio governor with a narrow victory over Democrat Richard F. Celeste.
Ted M. Vannelli, a political unknown a few months ago, pulls an upset victory over Anthony Bernard, the Republican incumbent Trumbull County commissioner.
November 8, 1963: Sixty-seven Mahoning County gamblers, racketeers and others are subpoenaed in a grand jury investigation against the rackets engineered by county Prosecutor Clyde W. Osborne and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Two of the biggest names in the Youngstown underworld -- Carabbia and Naples -- are among the 70 gambling stamp holders, racketeers and bombing targets getting subpoenas.
The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of Youngstown, will sail for New York from Naples after spending six weeks at the second session of the Vatican Council in Rome.
McKay Machine Co. is granted an exclusive license to design, sell, build and service pipe mill machinery formerly marketed in the United States by Mannesmann-Meer Inc. of Henricks Road.
November 8, 1953: A 24-year-old ex-convict from Youngstown who was recently paroled after serving more than three years in the Mansfield Reformatory gives himself up to police, admitting that he tried to rob a grocery store because he was "broke, hungry and out of work."
A series of fires break out atop a number of Ohio Edison poles in the Youngstown area as wet snow causes short circuits. Power outages were reported in Youngstown, Girard, McDonald and Vienna.
The annual tri-state chess tournament, being held in Youngstown for the first time, draws 50 players from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to the Manchester Room of Central YMCA.
November 8, 1928: A police crusade against reckless driving, with arrests and jail sentences threatened for careless motorists, is being launched by Youngstown Chief James J. McNicholas.
Clarence Wiggins, 35, is killed when a charge of dynamite being used in the Campbell plant of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. explodes prematurely.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for governor of New York, defeats Atty. General Albert Ottinger by 29,000 votes out of more than 4 million cast. Roosevelt carried New York City by 400,000 votes. He will succeed Al Smith as the state's governor.