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Today is Sunday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2006. There are 56 days left in the year. On this date in 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" fails as Guy Fawkes is seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defies the law by attempting to vote for President Grant. (She is convicted by a judge and fined $100, but never pays the fine.) In 1895, George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., receives the first U.S. patent for an automobile known as the "Road Engine." In 1912, Woodrow Wilson is elected president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft. In 1940, President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in office as he defeats Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie. In 1942, American showman George M. Cohan dies in New York at age 64. In 1946, Republicans capture control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections. In 1956, Britain and France start landing forces in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal. (A cease-fire is declared two days later.) In 1968, Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. In 1985, Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Mormon Church, dies at age 90; he is succeeded by Ezra Taft Benson. In 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, is shot to death at a New York hotel. (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair is convicted of the slaying in federal court.)
November 5, 1981: A light plane carrying three adults and a child attempts an emergency landing in the parking lot of the Eastwood Mall and crashes atop the roof of the Sears Automotive Service Center. Police report injuries, but no fatalities.
Buckingham Palace announces that Diana, Princess of Wales, who wed Prince Charles in July, is expecting a child in June.
November 5, 1966: Youngstown University inaugurates its second president, Dr. Albert Pugsley, who succeeds Dr. Howard Jones, who built YU from a small night school to its present enrollment of 12,000. Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of the former president, gives the address.
Kathleen Mehle, a 1965 graduate of Austintown Fitch, is elected princess of the Pershing Rifles at Youngstown University.
Hubbard wraps up its first outright Steel Valley Conference football championship by defeating Brookfield, 46-12, before 4,000 fans at Hubbard Stadium. John Brideweser's Eagles won eight straight games, including all six Steel Valley contests, after an opening loss to Farrell.
November 5, 1956: With fair weather in the forecast, Mahoning County election officials are expecting more than 130,000 voters at the polls.
J.L. Mauthe, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., speaking at a luncheon meeting of the New York Society of Security Analysts, says the company's million-ton expansion program will include a new battery of coke ovens at the Campbell Works in Youngstown.
Mrs. Adelaide Stambaugh Jackson, who formed the first volunteer corps of home service workers for the Mahoning Red Cross Chapter during World War II, dies in North Side Hospital.
November 5, 1931: A dynamite explosion destroys two large brick buildings, a 5 & amp; 10 cent store and the Casino Italian Restaurant on Robinson Road in Campbell. Damage is estimated at $50,000.
Thomas "Arch" Dickinson, 35, of Poland, an efficiency engineer for the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. and father of several inventions at the plant, including an automobile hub and a radio that could be built for 40 cents, shoots himself behind the estate of W.L. Countryman, Poland mayor. Dickinson was of a nervous temperament, especially since returning from the World War in which he was a combat aviator who won the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Croix de Guerre.
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