Today is Saturday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2005. There are 56 days left in the year. On this date in 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" falis as Guy Fawkes is seized before he can blow up the English

Today is Saturday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2005. There are 56 days left in the year. On this date in 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" falis as Guy Fawkes is seized before he can blow up the English Parliament.
In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote for President Grant. (She never pays the fine.) In 1895, George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., receives the first U.S. patent for an automobile. 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 1985, Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Mormon Church, dies at age 90; he is succeeded by Ezra Taft Benson. 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 of the slaying in federal court.) In 1996, voters return President Clinton to the White House for a second term but keep Congress in Republican control.
November 5, 1980: Democrat James A. Traficant Jr. easily defeats Republican Terrence Shidel, 70,762 to 46,038, in the general election for Mahoning County sheriff. Traficant says he'll take on Don L. Hanni Jr., the two-term chairman of the county's Democratic Party organization.
Ronald Reagan wins 43 states over President Jimmy Carter and Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate. President Carter carries Mahoning County by a 14,005 plurality and Trumbull County by 3,316 votes. Reagan carried Columbiana County by 3,340 votes.
U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams easily defeats his Democratic challenger Harry Meshel in the 19th District congressional race.
November 5, 1965: The state Highway Department officially adopts a plan to build 2.3 miles of Interstate 680 into a new limited interchange at the Ohio turnpike, about two miles southeast of the Route 7 interchange.
Plans for a campus police force and increased campus lighting are discussed by Youngstown University President Howard Jones, Mayor Anthony B. Flask and Police Chief John Terlesky.
A 35-year-old Campbell man accused of selling dope to Youngstown University students is placed on probation for possession of narcotics by Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. after the sales counts were dismissed.
November 5, 1955: A foreman is killed and five workmen are injured by a terrific explosion at the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s Campbell Works. The explosion rocked areas of Campbell and Struthers, breaking windows and cracking plaster. Dead is David W. Prescott, 38.
The Chrysler Corp. will announce within two weeks the site of its proposed $85 million stamping plant, after it becomes known that a proposed site in Macedonia in Summit County was found to be unfit to support a plant of that size.
During a televised debate on WFMJ-TV, Republican mayoral candidate Fred Knott says as a businessman he would work to get Youngstown back on a sound business basis, and incumbent Frank X. Kryzan says "training and experience in the intricate business of government is necessary to the success of any city administration."
November 5, 1930: Democrats Robert J. Bulkley and George White are elected U.S. senator and governor of Ohio and the party increases its representation in the Ohio House by at least five seats and will win some seats in the Ohio Senate, which had been entirely Republican.
Erskine Maiden Jr., an attorney in Youngstown for 14 years who is not yet 40 years old, is elected to Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, the county's youngest judge.
Youngstown voters reject a proposed $200,000 bond issue for emergency unemployment relief, along with all proposed amendments to the city charger and salary increases for city officials and councilmen.