Today is Tuesday, Nov 4, the 309th day of 2008. There are 57 days left in the year. This is Election

November 4, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Nov 4, the 309th day of 2008. There are 57 days left in the year. This is Election Day. On this date in 1979, the Iran hostage crisis begins as militants storm the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants. For some of the hostages, it is the start of 444 days of captivity.

In 1884, Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine. In 1922, the entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb is discovered in Egypt. In 1924, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming is elected the nation’s first female governor to serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross. In 1942, during World War II, Axis forces retreat from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson. In 1956, Soviet troops move in to crush the Hungarian Revolution. In 1980, Ronald Reagan wins the White House as he defeats President Carter by a strong margin. In 1988, in a ceremony at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, President Reagan signs a measure providing for U.S. participation in an anti-genocide treaty signed by President Truman in 1948. In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a festive peace rally.

November 4, 1983: The Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency says at least $151 million must be spent and up to $304 million could be spent to build and repair roads and bridges in Mahoning and Trumbull counties by the year 2005.

Atty. Richard McLaughlin is offered the post of secretary-treasurer of the Trumbull County Democratic Party by Chairman Dr. William J. Timmins. The job has been vacant since Mitchell Shaker became a Trumbull County Common Pleas judge.

Navy Commander William M. Bokesch, a 1961 graduate of Ursuline High School, is named head of the Combat Information Center aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, an aircraft carrier.

U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams announces an $821,000 federal grant for construction of a downtown terminal for the Western Reserve Transit Authority.

November 4, 1968: A three alarm fire fed by dry timber spreads through the main section of the old Stambaugh Lumber Co. building at 55 S. Worthington Street.

Negotiations are underway to sell control of the Ohio Leather Co. in Girard to Talcoot National Corp. of New York City.

With nearly 4,000 absentee ballots already being arranged for tabulation in Mahoning County, election officials expect a near-record turnout for the presidential election in Mahoning County.

November 4, 1958: Youngstown Police Chief Paul Cress lauds four police officers who solved the abduction-rape case of a 15-year-old Struthers girl and arrest four youths. Cress credits Patrolmen Anthony Ignazio, Harold Lattanzi and John E. Leonard and Detective James Flauto.

Police capture three Warren youths burglarizing McAllister’s Farm Market at 2105 South Ave.

Turnkey John Sorvillo thwarts a jail break by four youths being held in the Trumbull County Jail on armed robbery charges.

November 4, 1933: Youngstown St. Patrick and St. Brendan battle to a 13-13 deadlock in the Parochial League at Bort’s Field.

Clarence P. Appel, Boardman Street jeweler, is elected high priest of Ashlar Chapter, 213, Royal Arch Masons.

Eleven youths who “crashed the door” at the Warner Theater and annoyed patrons are arrested by Officer Myron Burnside and taken to the Detention Home.

Mertis Fleming, 55-year-old Ashtabula farmer, and his wife, Alletis, 28, are sentenced to life in prison for the murder of their two month old son on their West Andover farm. They pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. She confessed to choking her son because her husband “didn’t like boy babies.” She is expecting another child in the spring.