Today is Monday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2005. There are 47 days left in the year. On this date in
Today is Monday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2005. There are 47 days left in the year. On this date in 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) sets out to travel around the world in less than 80 days. (She makes the trip in 72 days.)
In 1851, Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick" is first published.In 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation begins its domestic radio service. In 1943, an American torpedo is mistakenly fired at the battleship USS Iowa, which was carrying President Roosevelt and his joint chiefs to the Tehran conference; the torpedo explodes harmlessly in the Iowa's wake. In 1968, Yale University announces it is going co-educational. In 1969, Apollo 12 blasts off for the moon. In 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 1,000 level for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.
November 14, 1980: Toro Enterprises Inc. will reactivate and operate U.S. Steel Corp.'s McDonald Mills under a three-way agreement announced by Judge Thomas J. Lambros.
Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin warns county commissioners that he will sue them if they cut his staff by 50 percent as part of the budget-trimming process.
November 14, 1965: A New Castle couple, Earl W. McKissock, a Bell Telephone official, and his wife, Louise, a home economics teacher, are among the 459 people rescued from the Yarmouth Castle cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan says that while a multi-million dollar atom smasher may aid Ohio's economy, the Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway is of much greater lasting importance for new industries and jobs.
A large four-point buck deer from Mill Creek Park leaps through the front windows of the Glacier Inn at 311 Glenwood Ave. and goes on a rampage, frightening the barmaid, before it was shot by a Youngstown patrolman.
November 14, 1955: Republic Steel Corp. will move its steel door department from its Berger Manufacturing Division at Canton to the Niles Steel Products Division in Walnut St.
A 23-year-old Denver man is accused of putting a bomb in his mother's luggage, causing the United Airlines plane she was riding in to explode in flight, killing all 44 aboard. John Graham had taken out a $37,500 flight insurance policy on his mother and stood to share in her estate, valued at $150,000.
More than 800 people attend dedication ceremonies at the new Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church in Campbell.
November 14, 1930: R.W. Yengling, manager of the Elthor Drug Co. store at 1453 Elm St., is slightly wounded by a lone bandit during a robbery in which $200 was taken.
Youngstown City Council is considering a 1 cent per gallon gasoline tax that would raise an estimated $20,000 a month to provide aid for the city's needy.
A new hard-surfaced road along the west side of Lake Glacier from the Mill Creek Park bathhouse to Price Road is open to traffic.
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