Today is Wednesday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2005. There are 52 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2005. There are 52 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurs as a series of power failures lasting up to 131/2 hours leaves 30 million people in seven states and two Canadian provinces without electricity.
In 1872, fire destroys nearly a thousand buildings in Boston. In 1918, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announces he would abdicate. He then flees to the Netherlands. In 1935, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and other labor leaders form the Committee for Industrial Organization. In 1938, Nazis loot and burn synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what becomes known as "Kristallnacht." In 1953, author-poet Dylan Thomas dies in New York at age 39. In 1963, twin disasters strike Japan as some 450 miners are killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people die in a train crash. In 1967, a Saturn 5 rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasts off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
November 9, 1980: Layoffs are looming in 1981 for some or all of Mahoning County's 500 employees following repeal of a county sales tax, but some are suggesting that reduced work weeks would be a better solution than layoffs.
Construction of a $3.6 million commercial and warehouse complex along E. Market St. near the Route 5 Bypass could be under construction by spring if Trumbull County commissioners approve annexation of the land from Howland to Warren.
Runners from 16 nations run in Youngstown's fourth annual Peace Race, with the 10-kilometer race won by Zakari Barie of Tanzania and the 25-kilometer race won by Kyle Heffner of Boulder, Colo.
November 9, 1965: Two Canfield High School girls win the sectional Prince of Peace speech contests. Suzanne Rowan, a senior, won the declamation contest at Boardman Methodist Church. Leah Flock, a sophomore, won the contest at Austintown Community Church.
Fifty-eight of the 63 people aboard an American Airlines Boeing 727 jet die when the plane crashes into a Kentucky mountain while making an approach to Greater Cincinnati Airport during a rain storm.
Mahoning National Bank President M.E. Roberts announces a rise in interest on savings accounts to 31/2 percent retroactive to Nov. 1.
November 9, 1955: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan wins his second two-year term, 33,456 to 23,715, over Republican J. Fred Knott. Council President Richard J. Barrett leads the Democratic majority on council with the most lopsided victory in city history, carrying all seven wards in a two-to-one victory over Republican William S. Pound.
A labor-sponsored law to increase worker's compensation payments is defeated by more than 600,000 votes in statewide balloting. Mahoning County is one of the few counties in which the issue was approved.
Atty. Robert A. Manchester, who practices in Youngstown and lives in Canfield, will be the 19th Congressional District's first representative on the newly created state Board of Education.
November 9, 1930: The Citizens Smoke Abatement League will meet at the YMCA opening another barrage in the battle to make Youngstown a smoke-free city.
Youngstown continues to reduce its death rate below that for 1929 and is well below the average for all large cities in the United States. Youngstown's rate for the week just past was 11.3; the national average for the year is 11.9.
More than 200 inmates and attendants at the Massilon Hospital for the Insane are forced to flee three buildings when fire destroys McKinley Hall, a dormitory and auditorium and threatens other buildings.