Today is Saturday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2005. There are 42 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2005. There are 42 days left in the year. On this date in 1863, President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address as he dedicates a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
In 1794, the United States and Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which resolves some issues left over from the Revolutionary War. In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, is born in Orange, Ohio. In 1919, the Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification. In 1942, during World War II, Russian forces launch their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front. In 1949, Monaco holds a coronation for its new ruler, Prince Rainier III, six months after he succeeds his grandfather, Prince Louis II. In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make man's second landing on the moon. In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
November 19, 1980: A draft report compiled by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources recommends that, because many of the mills that used and dirtied its water for decades have closed, the Mahoning River should be considered as a future source of drinking water.
Television cameras are banned from Municipal Court when two men are bound over to the Mahoning County grand jury in connection with the Nov. 1 shooting death of Veronica Vaughn.
Willie Sutton, the "Babe Ruth of Bank Robbers," whose varying disguises over three decades of crime earned him the nickname "Willie the Actor" is dead at 79. He was perhaps best known for his oft-quoted response to why he robbed banks: "Because that's where the money is."
November 19, 1965: Trumbull County Commissioner Gary Thompson suggests that part of the Lordstown Military Reservation be used for a countywide vocational school.
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, says the 1967 defense budget will probably exceed $55 billion, an $8 billion increase over the 1966 budget approved by Congress.
U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan announces that the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency has approved a loan of $1.6 million to build a senior citizens housing facility in Youngstown.
November 19, 1955: Motorists throughout the Youngstown district skid along city streets and highways as the first heavy snowfall of the season covers the area in a five-inch blanket of wet snow.
A threatened strike by locomotive engineers on the Youngstown & amp; Northern Railroad Co., which serves the Ohio and McDonald works of U.S. Steel and could have thrown 10,000 Youngstown steelworkers out of work, is averted.
Commercial Motor Freight Inc. opens its new terminal at 3821 Crum Road, offering overnight service to all major cities in Ohio.
November 19, 1930: There are plenty of children in Youngstown who have just enough to eat to barely get along, though none are starving, says D.E. Lehman, chair attendance officer for city schools. The schools spent $985 in October for shoes for children who would otherwise have been unable to attend.
Three bandits, their faces blackened and all carrying guns, force their way into a farm house north of Hartford in Trumbull County and bind farmer C.L. Clark and his elderly parents before ransacking the house and escaping with $26 in cash and Clark's automobile.
Parker Beck, exalted ruler of the Youngstown Elks, sends members a questionnaire asking whether a new Elks home should be built downtown or on the North Side.