Today is Wednesday, Nov. 3, the 308th day of 2004. There are 58 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 3, the 308th day of 2004. There are 58 days left in the year. On this date in 1936, President Roosevelt wins a landslide election victory over Republican challenger Alfred M. "Alf" Landon. .
In 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant wins the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour. In 1896, Republican William McKinley defeats Democrat William Jennings Bryan for the presidency. In 1900, the first automobile show in the United States opens at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America. In 1908, Republican William Howard Taft is elected president, outpolling William Jennings Bryan. In 1957, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik II, the second man-made satellite, into orbit; on board is a dog named "Laika" who is sacrificed in the experiment. In 1979, five radicals are killed when gunfire erupts during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Greensboro, N.C., after a caravan of Klansmen and neo-Nazis had driven into the area. In 1992, Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President Bush.
November 3, 1979: The Hooker Chemical & amp; Plastics Co. says quantities of the chemical C-56 stored in a Deerfield dump "do not pose any danger to the public or the environment." Hooker says there are about 2,000 gallons of the chemical stored in two above ground tanks; Attorney General William J. Brown says there are nearly 12,000 gallons of the chemical on site.
A spurt of layoffs, mostly among women and blacks, pushes the nation's unemployment rate up to 6 percent in October.
November 3, 1964: The stomping of an Ursuline High School science teacher mars a comparatively peaceful night in the football season, which has only two weeks to go. Police are attempting to round-up a group of teenagers, who turned on John P. Ulicney, 28, when he came to the aid of a youth being attacked during the Ursuline-South game.
The Johnson-Goldwater campaign has failed to arouse the enthusiasm of the 1960 race between Kennedy and Nixon in the Mahoning Valley, when Mahoning County registration reached 151,000 and 90 percent of the registrants went to the polls.
November 3, 1954: Mahoning County elects a complete slate of Democratic candidates, but with much reduced majorities over that given the party's candidates in most of the elections since 1934.
Thomas J. Carney is elected Mahoning County commissioner over Edwin J. Anderson, 43,021 to 37,290.
Twenty-four local issues, the majority for school construction bonds or operating levies, are approved by Mahoning County voters. Three issues failed.
Gov. Frank J. Lausche wins a fifth term. He carries Mahoning County with 58.,672 votes to Republican James A. Rhodes' 28,993.
November 3, 1929: Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, former secretary of war and one of the nation's most able lawyers, will argue that the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District is a constitutional entity when the MVSD case is heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The University of Pittsburgh crushes Ohio State on a slippery field in the Pitt Bowl, 18-2.
William A. Cleaver, chief probation officer in Mahoning County juvenile court, says white slave ring recruiters are active in Youngstown, signing up girls who are sent to all parts of the world.