Today is Saturday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2004. There are 55 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2004. There are 55 days left in the year. On this date in 1854, the "king" of American march music, John Philip Sousa, is born in Washington, D.C.
In 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeats three other candidates for the presidency. In 1861, Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. In 1888, Benjamin Harrison wins the presidential election, defeating incumbent Grover Cleveland with enough electoral votes, even though Cleveland leads in the popular vote. In 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53. In 1900, President McKinley is re-elected, beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan. In 1906, Republican Charles Evans Hughes is elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. In 1928, in a first, the results of Herbert Hoover's election victory over Alfred E. Smith are flashed onto an electric sign outside The New York Times building. In 1956, President Eisenhower wins re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson. In 1976, Benjamin L. Hooks is chosen to be the new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins. In 1977, 39 people are killed when an earthen dam bursts, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
November 6, 1979: Water sample tests on the Berlin Reservoir turn up no chemical contamination from the Deerfield dump, but the company making the analysis says there is no guarantee that conditions won't change.
Rich Karlis, the former Salem High kicker and bare-foot kickoff specialist for the University of Cincinnati, is averaging 65 yards per kickoff, with many going out of the end zone for no return. The junior business major was a walk-on to the football team as a freshman.
November 6, 1964: Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis is returned to office, defeating Democratic challenger Joseph G. Barrett, 68,980 to 50,21.
A permit is issued by the Youngstown building inspection department for construction of a $140,000 branch library at 1344 Fifth Ave., which will be named for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John H. Clarke, who left the library $100,000.
Joyce Fabrizio, a majorette, editor of the school newspaper and member of the National Honor Society, is North High School's 1964 Homecoming Queen.
November 6, 1954: Only three days remain to raise $264,000 toward the Community Chest's drive of $825,000.
Youngstown firemen spend a second day flushing several streets and sewers in W. Rayen Avenue with thousands of gallons of water to rid the area of dangerous gasoline fumes spread by an overflowing tank at the Texas Oil Co.'s bulk plant in Marble Street.
Experts have determined that a bombing in July at the home of Jack Sulligan, Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman, and one in May at Johnnie's Grocery Store on W. Rayen Avenue were both the work of the same man.
November 6, 1929: Republican John Davidson defeats Democrat George McArtor for mayor of Salem, 1,484 to 1,147. A $220,000 bond issue to provide a new water supply for the city is defeated, 1,385 to 1,061.
Ohio voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that will allow different taxation rates to be established for property based on the use classified for an individual parcel.
A close fight for the Youngstown Board of Education results in the election of Warren Williamson, T. Lamar Jackson, William Rowney and William C. Gubbins to the board.
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