Today is Thursday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2005. There are 44 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2005. There are 44 days left in the year. On this date in 1800, Congress holds its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
In 1558, Elizabeth I ascends the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary. In 1869, the Suez Canal opens in Egypt. In 1917, sculptor August Rodin dies in Meudon, France. In 1925, actor Rock Hudson is born in Winnetka, Ill. In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird." In 1962, Washington's Dulles International Airport is dedicated by President Kennedy. In 1970, the Soviet Union lands an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1.
November 17, 1980: "It feels good to be free," says Maggie Wellington, one of 15 Boardman teachers who completed serving 10-day jail sentences for contempt of court for defying back-to-work orders issued by Common Pleas Judge Clyde Osborne during a six-week teachers strike.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, an adviser to President-elect Ronald Reagan, predicts the American hostages in Iran will be freed before the Jan. 20 inauguration.
A touchdown pass from Terry Bradshaw to Lynn Swann with 11 second left gives the Steelers a 16-13 victory over the Browns at Three Rivers Stadium. The Browns haven't won at Three Rivers in the 10 years the stadium has been open.
November 17, 1965: A tornado strikes isolated sections of Green and Poland townships in Mahoning County, causing no deaths or serious injury but leaving property damage estimated in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Extensive planning and construction will be necessary to meet the stepped-up sewage treatment requirements announced by the federal government, says Youngstown City Engineer J. Phillip Richley.
November 17, 1955: Youngstown area boys and girls are emptying their piggy banks as bankers send out an appeal for pennies. The banks say they are only getting 50 percent of their normal supply of pennies from the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland.
Edward J. DeBartolo's third request for zone changes for a shopping center at Gypsy Lane and Belmont Ave. runs into another snag when the City Planning Commission recommends that city council disapprove the rezoning.
November 17, 1930: After a closed session, the City High School Athletic Council announces that there will be no post-season football tournament. The tournament had been suggested as a way of raising money for charity. The council says the proceeds from the South-Chaney Thanksgiving Day game will be donated to charity.
The dismembered body of Eddie Mason, 1408 Oakland Ave., Youngstown is found by a boy in an open field of the John Doughton farm, near the Doughton golf course west of Hubbard. Mason had been missing for two months and police are searching for a former roomer in Mason's home.
Atty. Fanyerose Gancfried is exonerated by the committee on professional ethics after being accused by Prosecutor Ray L. Thomas of asking a state witness to leave Ohio. The committee says that Miss Gancfried, the youngest member of the Mahoning bar, had no intent to do wrong.