Today is Saturday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2005. There are 49 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2005. There are 49 days left in the year. On this date in 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins. (The Americans end up winning a major victory over the Japanese.)
In 1815, American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in Johnstown, N.Y. In 1920, baseball gets its first "czar" as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected commissioner of the American and National Leagues. In 1927, Josef Stalin becomes the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party. In 1929, Grace Kelly -- the future movie star and Princess of Monaco -- is born in Philadelphia. In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders are sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. In 1977, the city of New Orleans elects its first black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial. In 1982, Yuri V. Andropov is elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. In 1985, Xavier Suarez is elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor. In 1990, Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne. In 2001, an American Airlines Airbus A300-600, en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes 103 seconds after takeoff from New York's Kennedy International Airport, killing 265 people.
November 12, 1980: The Most Rev. James W. Malone, bishop of Youngstown, is elected vice president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
A federal grand jury indicts former U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown on one count of receiving an illegal gratuity from an oil firm -- use of a credit card provided by the Lyden Oil Co.
November 12, 1965: Speaking at a symposium in Youngstown's Mural Room, Arthur Hess, director of the health insurance division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, says the threat of non-participant in Medicare by the nation's doctors is not serious.
Youngstown pays tribute to the men and women who fought for liberty with the annual Veterans Day parade downtown. More than 15,000 people line the streets for the parade, which took on special significance with American servicemen defending freedom in Vietnam.
November 12, 1955: Richard E. Gibson, 20, of Leetonia, a junior at the University of Maryland, is stabbed to death while struggling with a car thief in Washington, D.C. A 16-year-old runaway from a Maryland training school is in custody.
Bebe Botty, 17-year-old Youngstown sophomore at Oberlin College, wins the Philharmonic Piano Awards competition at Strouss-Hirshberg's Music Center. She is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. John Botty; her father is pastor of the Hungarian Presbyterian Church.
An estimated 15,000 district residents line Federal Street from Andrews Ave. to Chestnut St. for the annual Veterans Day parade.
November 12, 1930: About 1,000 people are turned away from a packed Stambaugh Auditorium where a community Armistice Day program is held. John B. Kennedy, associate editor of Colliers magazine, was the principal speaker.
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper calls a special session of the Ohio legislature to consider legislation to relieve unemployment.
Dr. Shirley W. Wynne, New York city health commissioner, is on record asserting that the medical profession must give public qualified treatment at reasonable prices or face the possibility of state regulation.