Today is Tuesday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2005. There are 53 days left in the year. This is Election Day. On this date in 1923, Adolf Hitler launches his first attempt at seizing power with a failed

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2005. There are 53 days left in the year. This is Election Day. On this date in 1923, Adolf Hitler launches his first attempt at seizing power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, the "Beer-Hall Putsch."
In 1837, Mount Holyoke Seminary, a college exclusively for women, opens in South Hadley, Mass. In 1889, Montana becomes the 41st state. In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency. In 1933, President Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed. In 1942, Operation "Torch" begins during World War II as U.S. and British forces land in French North Africa. In 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. In 1965, the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" premieres on NBC. In 1988, Vice President George Bush wins the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
November 8, 1980: U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Lambros refuses to allow Community Steel to add a conspiracy charge to its lawsuit against U.S. Steel, which leased to Toro Enterprises parts of the McDonald Mill that Community Steel wanted to take over.
Actor Steve McQueen, who had been pursuing high-risk treatment for cancer, dies of a heart attack.
Two men are dead as a result of industrial accidents in Warren and Youngstown: Andrew Lancy, 65, a crane operator who fell at Copperweld Steel's melt shop; and James Benton, 56, of Struthers, who was struck by a crane at J & amp;L's Campbell boiler and weld shop.
November 8, 1965: In a statement of policy, the board of trustees of the Youngstown Hospital Association announces that collective bargaining with any organization representing employees is not appropriate for a nonprofit hospital.
A statewide higher education financing plan laid out by the Ohio Finance Department calls for spending more than $24 million in construction at Youngstown University.
The bodies of Thomas Helman of Brecksville and two unidentified women are found in the wreckage of a Cessna 172 airplane on a farm near West Salem. The plane struck a barn as Helman evidently attempted to make a forced landing.
November 8, 1955: Youngstown's public schools are as good as most schools and better than many in a five-state area, Dr. M. M. Szucs, board member, reports to his colleagues. He recently returned from a trip during which he covered five states and visited many schools.
The Youngstown Board of Education approves the purchase of 10 acres of land for a new Kimmelbrook area school from the Robert McCurdy estate at a cost of $10,330.
Heavy noon-hour voting in many of Mahoning County's 358 precincts pushes the total in the county to above 35,000 votes cast despite chilly weather, which observers thought would keep the balloting down. Among the first to cast their ballots are Youngstown's mayoral candidates, Incumbent Frank X. Kryzan and Republican challenger J. Fred Knott.
November 8, 1930: The trial in the proposed merger of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. and the Bethlehem Steel Corp., which began on a warm summer day, June 25, comes to a close at 8:25 p.m. on a cold November night before Municipal Court Judge David Jenkins. The judge made no prediction of when he would complete studying the record and issue his ruling.
Democrat William O. Pickerel's lead for lieutenant governor of Ohio is cut to just 623 votes in the state through the discovery of a 9,350-vote error in the unofficial count in Mahoning County.
The U.S. output of oil in 1929 was equal to the oil that would have been produced by killing 20 million whales in the days before oil was extracted from the ground.