Today is Friday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2005. There are 57 days left in the year. On this date in 1979, the Iranian hostage crisis begins as militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing its

Today is Friday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2005. There are 57 days left in the year. On this date in 1979, the Iranian hostage crisis begins as militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants. For some of the hostages, it is the start of 444 days of captivity.
In 1879, humorist Will Rogers is born in Oologah, Okla. In 1880, the first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. In 1884, Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine. In 1922, the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb is discovered in Egypt. In 1924, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming is elected the nation's first female governor to serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross. In 1942, during World War II, Axis forces retreat from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson. In 1956, Soviet troops move in to crush the Hungarian Revolution. In 1980, Ronald Reagan wins the White House as he defeats President Carter by a strong margin. In 1991, Ronald Reagan opens his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.
November 4, 1980: Heavier-than-usual voting in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys indicates some district voting records in a presidential election could be broken.
Dr. Norman M. Parr, 66, former executive director of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches, dies in South Side Hospital after suffering a heart attack at his physician's office.
The heads of two predominantly black organizations are asking for a Justice Department investigation into the shooting death of a 14-year-old North Side girl.
November 4, 1965: A 21-year-old East Side man is arrested in the kidnaping of a Youngstown University coed. Meanwhile the university has hired an armed guard to patrol student parking areas and will install brighter lights at two lots.
Eight Boardman High School students who admitted painting "BHS" on the Struthers High stadium are arrested and will spend the weekend in the Juvenile Research Center. The county is enforcing a strict anti-rowdyism standard imposed in 1962 by Juvenile Court Judge Harold B. Rickert Sr..
November 4, 1955: The first widespread cold snap of the season tumbles temperatures in the Youngstown district, dropping temperatures to 28 degrees and bringing a light coating of snow to much of the area.
The dramatic life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer is described by a co-worker in his leper hospital in Africa during a lecture to more than 500 Youngstown University students and faculty members in a crowded C.J. Strouss Memorial Auditorium.
Police are speculating on what happened to eight cases of dynamite, 50 sticks to the case, stolen from a rural warehouse operated by the Johnson Hardware Co. of Poland. In all, 34 cases were taken, but 26 of those were found in a ditch alongside Liberty Road near Applegate Road.
November 4, 1930: Youngstown banks report area residents have saved $669,000 in Christmas savings clubs in 1930, about the same as a year earlier.
A delegation representing nine civic organizations will demand a federal probe of the Niles police scandal after seven officers are suspended on graft charges.
Despite the approval of the Youngstown Board of Education, the proposal for a post-season football tournament with all four city high schools competing seems doomed, with two of the four coaches definitely opposed and a third doubtful that his team would be able to play.