Today is Friday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2004. There are 56 days left in the year. On his date in

Today is Friday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2004. There are 56 days left in the year. On his date in 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" fails as Guy Fawkes is seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
In 1911, Calbraith P. Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, Calif., completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49 days. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson is elected president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft. In 1940, President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in office as he defeats Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie. In 1944, British official Lord Moyne is assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang. In 1946, Republicans capture control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections. In 1968, Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. In 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, is shot to death at a New York hotel. (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair is convicted in federal court of the slaying.) In 1996, voters return President Clinton to the White House for a second term but keep Congress in Republican control.
November 5, 1979: Ohio Hotel Management Corp. will receive $760,000 for the aging Ohio Hotel, slated for remodeling to provide housing for the elderly and handicapped in downtown Youngstown.
Some 450 employees at the Eljer Plumbingware Division of Wallace-Murray Corp. in Salem return to work after ratifying a new three-year contract, ending a 39-day strike.
November 5, 1964: Democrats elect 16 governors in President Johnson's landslide, bringing the party's hold on governor ships to at least 35 of the 50 states, with one race still too close to call.
World leaders almost unanimously express pleasure at the re-election of President Johnson over Sen. Barry Goldwater, the glaring exception being Nationalist China, where officials says Goldwater may have given Chiang Kai-shek a freer hand to strike against Communist China.
There are 10 candidates for homecoming queen of Youngstown University: Estelle Casalandra, Jeanne Cegledy, Sally Ann Crespy, Joann Johnson, Marsha Roselle, Gwen Stone, Gayla Corcoran, Malirat Saguansin, Lynn Lockwood and Geraldine Bertolotti.
November 5, 1954: Ohio Secretary of State Ted Brown says it could be months before it is known whether Republican challenger George Bender or Democratic incumbent Thomas A. Burke is the state's U.S. senator. The preliminary count shows Bender with a 9,000 vote lead out of more than 2.5 million votes cast.
A 1955 Youngstown budget of $9 million, which shows a $250,000 deficit in the general fund, is presented to city council by Mayor Frank X. Kryzan.
November 5, 1929: On his 15th birthday, a Boardman St. boy is sentenced to the Lancaster Industrial School for delinquency, stealing an automobile and the unlawful death of Teddy Duran, 3, on Halloween. Sentencing of two other boys in the stolen car was delayed.
With increased consumption and a decrease in production, Youngstown is facing a shortage of eggs. Local wholesalers say they could sell another 1.5 million eggs a year in Youngstown if they had them.