Today is Monday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2003. There are 44 days left in the year. On this date in
Today is Monday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2003. There are 44 days left in the year. On this date in 1800, Congress holds its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol.
In 1558, Elizabeth I ascends the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary. In 1869, the Suez Canal opens in Egypt. In 1917, sculptor Auguste Rodin dies in Meudon, France. In 1925, actor Rock Hudson is born in Winnetka, Ill. In 1962, Washington's Dulles International Airport is dedicated by President Kennedy. In 1968, NBC-TV outrages football fans by cutting away from the closing minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. (Viewers are deprived of seeing the Raiders come from behind to beat the Jets, 43-32.) In 1970, the Soviet Union lands an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod I. In 1973, President Nixon tells Associated Press Managing Editors meeting in Orlando, Fla.: "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." In 1979, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
November 17, 1978: The Boardman Board of Education reaffirms its decision not to borrow money from the state's new emergency loan fund and will close schools Dec. 11.
Atty. Don L. Hanni Jr., chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic party, accuses Attorney General William Brown of being the mastermind behind a move to oust him from the State Democratic Executive Committee.
CBS Newsman Douglas Edwards tells 400 members and guests at the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner that the spirit of the Mahoning Valley will keep it strong.
November 17, 1963: President Kennedy gets a firsthand view of a launch of a Polaris missile from a submarine submerged off Cape Canaveral, Fla. He also gets a briefing on the nation's moon program from Dr. Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marshal Space Flight Center.
A bold plan whereby Trumbull County could in time eliminate its $1.8 million welfare deficit is getting careful study by county commissioners. Commissioners would encourage creditors to seek a court judgment against the county, which would allow it to sell bonds to satisfy the judgment.
Daffin Candy Co. in Sharon opens a subsidiary, Peter Rabbit Candies, in a new $75,000 plant at Water Ave. and Washington St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ashtabula, erected in 1828, will be torn down and a new building constructed.
November 17, 1953: Warren City Council votes to annex 245 acres west of the city, which will be the site of a $1 million shopping center to be known as Austin Village and 800 to 1,000 new homes.
Deepening the waterways connecting the five Great Lakes to 27 feet will yield enormous dividends, particularly to the steel industry, Dr. N.R. Danielian, president of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association, tells the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit.
Youngstown homeowners and those in neighboring cities will get substantial premium rate reductions on fire insurance -- as much as 20 percent -- based on a study of losses by the Ohio Association of Insurance Agents and the Ohio Inspection Bureau.
November 17, 1928: A 23-year-old New Castle youth is being held for questioning in the killing of Miss Emma Alley, a 17-year-old housemaid whose body was found on the banks of a small creek near New Castle. Her skull was crushed and bruises on her body indicated she put up a brave fight.
All land available for industrial site purposes within a 10-mile radius of Youngstown will be surveyed by members of the Youngstown Real Estate Board with the data to be used in a publicity campaign to bring about a Greater Youngstown.
Five bands will play at the double header at the South Field. Each school will put a band on the field at the Chaney- Steubenville and the traditional South-Girard games. The fifth band is a clever drum corps composed of girls from Steubenville. The bands will provide a musical extravaganza unequaled even in college realms.