Today is Sunday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2005. There are 48 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be

Today is Sunday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2005. There are 48 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
In 1775, during the American Revolution, U.S. forces capture Montreal. In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opens to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River. In 1942, the minimum draft age is lowered from 21 to 18. In 1956, the Supreme Court strikes down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. In 1971, the U.S. space probe Mariner Nine goes into orbit around Mars. In 1977, the comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appears in newspapers for the last time. In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., dies in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter. In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington. In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, die when a gigantic mudslide buries the city. In 1994, Sweden votes to join the European Union.
November 13, 1980: Youngstown State University is taking measures -- including a limited hiring freeze -- to deal with an additional 3 percent reduction in state funding for higher education, says YSU President John J. Coffelt.
Warren will have to layoff police and firemen or find a way of increasing taxes to cover a projected $610,000 deficit in 1981, city council is told.
Congress passes the Alaska lands bill, the largest land conservation measure since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, setting aside more than 100 million acres of unspoiled Alaskan lands for national parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness.
Mahoning County Administrator John Drummond is among thousands of county government officials from across the country who converge on Washington, D.C., to push for passage of a federal revenue-sharing bill that they say is crucial to their county budgets.
November 13, 1965: The passenger ship Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks in the Bahamas, and the Coast Guard reports that 88 of the 550 passengers and crew aboard are missing.
The warmth and friendliness shown by a little girl to an elderly man with no relatives prompted a $25,000 bequest for her college education in his will, filed in the Mahoning County Courthouse. Isador Zobel, retired owner of the Hazel Street Hotel, left an estate of $250,000, including the bequest to Candy Rose, 12. He also left $25,000 to Temple Emanuel for educational purposes.
Youngstown and Mahoning Presbytery are no better or worse than any other large city and presbytery in the country in the matter of race and religion, says a team that conducted a study of Mahoning, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties. The team was assigned by the Commission on Religion and Race of the U.P. Church, U.S.A.
November 13, 1955: Congressman Michael J. Kirwan announces that he will seek an 11th term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Youngstown's retail stores are looking forward to the best Christmas season in history, with predictions that sales will exceed those of 1954 by 15 percent.
Dr. Russell J. Humbert, president of DePaul University, will be the speaker for the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner at the Hotel Pick Ohio.
Federigo G. Ravelli , 75, a celebrated painter who had done a number of portraits, including that of James A. Campbell, former president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., dies in Pacific Grove, Calif. In 1927, Ravelli married Marie Campbell, daughter of James Campbell, in a ceremony at Elm Court, Logan Road, which was attended by many celebrities of this country and Europe.
November 13, 1930: The Dollar Savings and Trust Co., one of the leading banks in Sharon, closes its doors after Ralph E. Matthews, cashier and treasurer, admits that he embezzled over $125,000 and lost it in the stock market.
A special train will leave Youngstown taking more than 60 boosters of a Beaver-Mahoning-Shenango canal to the Mississippi Valley Association where they will seek support for the local waterway project.
To mark Armistice Day, the group of women who have been working for six years to make the highway from Kingsville to East Liverpool a "Road of Remembrance" plant more elm trees. Already, 700 elms have been planted along the road.
Officials of the U.S. Potters Association will meet with representatives of union labor leaders at East Liverpool seeking wage cuts due to the current business depression.
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