Today is Thursday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2003. There are 41 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Thursday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2003. 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 1943, during World War II, U.S. Marines begin landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands, encountering fierce resistance from Japanese forces but emerging victorious three days later. In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders go on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1967, the Census Clock at the Commerce Department ticks past 200 million. In 1975, after nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco dies, two weeks before his 83rd birthday.
November 20, 1978: Thomas A. Cleary Jr., a one-time steel mill laborer who had a meteoric rise to Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s No. 3 spot and a top place in the Lykes Corp. hierarchy, is taking early retirement to "pursue other business interests."
Coach Bill Narduzzi's Youngstown State University football team will play host to the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Division II Playoffs at Falcon Stadium in Austintown.
November 20, 1963: The evening shopping volume in downtown Youngstown is described as fair by merchants, who are experimenting with a free parking plan to make downtown trips more attractive.
Large inroads into the Youngstown Transit Co.'s revenues have been made by increased use of cars and shopping plazas, but the future still looks good, a company official tells the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce.
The death toll in the Iraqi military coup that toppled the Ba'athist Socialist regime is estimated unofficially at 200 and the pro-Nasser President Abdel Salam Aref appears to have gained firm control of the country.
November 20, 1953: Mayor-elect Frank X. Kryzan declares he will demand the "highest order of law enforcement ever seen" in Youngstown and promises priority treatment for such urgent problems as downtown parking and attracting new industries.
Ray Baer, 19, is killed and William Braun, 20, injured when one wall of a 13-foot deep sewer ditch at Cornersburg collapses. The men, employees of the Fred A. Miller Construction Co., had laid the sewer line and were removing cribbing boards when the ditch collapsed.
Mahoning Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins lashes out at the "breakdown in our moral senses" as he sentences a 19-year-old Kyle Street man to spend six months of a three-year probation period in county jail. The judge assailed a public attitude "that allows bars to operate so freely that 19-year-olds are able to drink enough that they commit acts of crime and violence. "
November 20, 1928: The Youngstown Board of Education authorizes the Rayen relations committee to confer with Rayen school trustees to secure permission to remodel the old Rayen school on Wick Avenue for a technical high school.
Dr. Carlos C. Booth, 66, widely known as a surgeon, astronomer, Boy Scout worker and the man who designed Ohio's first automobile, dies of pneumonia at his home at 1012 Bryson St., Youngstown. He was elected a member of the Youngstown Hospital medical staff in 1892 and built his automobile, the first in Ohio and one of the first in the United States, in 1894.