Today is Saturday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 2008. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All

Today is Saturday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 2008. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day. A reminder: Daylight-saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Clocks go back one hour. On this date in 1512, Michelangelo finishes painting the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

In 1765, the Stamp Act goes into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists. In 1870, the United States Weather Bureau makes its first meteorological observations. In 1936, in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini describes the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Rome and Berlin. In 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists try to force their way into Blair House in Washington to assassinate President Truman. One of the pair and a White House police officer re killed. In 1973, following the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appoints Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.

November 1, 1983: Ruthann Paul, an art teacher in the Niles City Schools, designs the official logo for the Niles Sesquicentennial celebration.

Three Youngstown area men are sentenced to prison in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas for selling $90,000 worth of stolen jewelry to an FBI agent posing as a Las Vegas fence. Ernest Biondillo, 40, is sentenced to 12 years.

November 1, 1968: Leaders of the major political parties in Mahoning County join in urging passage of the 12-mill operating levy for Youngstown public schools.

Charles M. Beeghly, member of one of Youngstown’s most prominent families, will retire as chairman and chief executive officer of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., which he helped forge into one of the nation’s largest steel makers.

November 1, 1958: State Sen. Charles Carney, 45, and two city policemen are injured when the senator’s car crashed into the rear of a police cruiser at 3:30 a.m. in front of South High School. Carney is cited for failure to stop in an assured clear distance.

The “fiery mass of metal” that an unidentified motorist said “plunged out of the sky” in Boardman was a Halloween hoax. The “meteorite” was a piece of calcium silicon used in steel mills.

November 1, 1933: The Youngstown Players open their sixth season at the Playhouse in Arlington Street with a performance of George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Candida.”

Stockholders and attorneys who fought the merger of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. lose in the Ohio Supreme Court, where they argued that the Youngstown company should pay more than $1 million in court expenses and attorney fees.