Today is Wednesday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2003. There are 42 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2003. 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 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, is born in Orange, Ohio. 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 World War II, Russian forces launc 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. In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make man's second landing on the moon. In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to visit Israel. In 1985, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev meet for the first time as they begin their summit in Geneva. In 1988, shipping heiress Christina Onassis dies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at age 37.
November 19, 1978: A study by Battelle Memorial Institute reports that the price of coal from mines owned by electric utilities may be 62.5 percent higher than coal from independently owned mines.
The State Department announces that U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., has been killed in an attack during a fact-finding mission of 25 lawyers and journalists to Port Kaituma, Guyana. Ryan was leading a mission to investigate a religious settlement called "The People's Temple."
November 19, 1963: Republic Steel Corp.'s Manufacturing Division will spend more than $3 million to improve and expand its Truscon plant on Albert Street in Youngstown and three plants in Niles.
Niles McKinley High School is undisputed king of Ohio high school football for 1963, according to both the Associated Press and United Press International polls.
President Kennedy settles back into his workaday routine, but only temporarily after a hectic Florida trip capped by an appeal to the Cuban people to overthrown the Castro regime. The president will be leaving in two days for a fast-paced Texas trip.
November 19, 1953: A huge new shopping center valued at $145,000 will be erected by the M. DeBartolo Construction Co. at Garland Avenue and McGuffey Road. The center, the first on the East Side, will have space for 18 stores.
Boardman Township trustees launch an investigation into bingo games at the Arena in Boardman. The twice-weekly games have been going on for months, co-sponsored by church and veteran groups.
A thick gray mantle that has hung over the Youngstown area for several days is a pall of smoke trapped by a freakish air condition, says U.S. Weatherman Fred Branden.
November 19, 1928: City and county authorities in New Castle are attempting to find a clue that would lead them to the murderer of Emma Alley, 18-year-old school girl, whose body was found along a stream near Auburn Mills. They admit that they are baffled.
Making good on a threat that she would never enter Marysville Reformatory, Helen Sargent, self-styled prison reformer, escapes from a slow-moving train taking her from Mahoning County to Marysville. She had been sentenced to one to three years in the reformatory after pleading guilty to bad check charges.
A German process for making synthetic gasoline from soft coal is described to the second international conference on bituminous coal at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Standard Oil Co. has acquired the U.S. rights to the process.