Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2008. There are 56 days left in the year. On this date

November 5, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2008. There are 56 days left in the year. On this date in 1968, Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace.

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 “improved Road Engine.” In 1912, Woodrow Wilson is elected president, defeating Progressive Party candidate 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 1946, Republicans capture control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections. In 1974, Ella T. Grasso is elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband. In 1985, Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, dies at age 90; he is succeeded by Ezra Taft Benson. In 1987, Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana several times in the 1960s and ’70s, calling it a mistake. (Ginsburg ends up withdrawing his nomination.) 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, 1983: The Niles area has at least a 50-50 chance of landing the new tube mill being planned by the RMI Co.

The U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals overturns a consent decree designed to approve minority hiring and promotion within the Youngstown Police Department, leaving lawyers and policemen alike confused about what the effect will be.

A ski-masked thief escapes with a box containing $20,550 in travelers checks from Society Bank, 50 Federal Plaza.

November 5, 1968: A 27-year-old-mother and her three young children are killed when fire sweeps through their trailer home south of Bloomfield in northwest Trumbull County. Dead are Mrs. Judy Poole; Tammy, 5; Stanley, 3, and David, 1.

Pfc. Robert G. Stanko, 20, of Campbell is killed in Vietnam by a gunshot wound as he attempted to break up a fight between three other men in a bunker.

Carl W. Ullman, president of the Dollar Savings & Trust Co. for 33 years, is named chairman, a new post, and A.I. Kidston is named president and chief executive of the bank.

November 5, 1958: Democrat Michael DiSalle unseats incumbent Gov. C. William O’Neill and former Congressman Stephen Young defeats GOP Sen. John W. Bricker as a Democratic riptide sweeps across Ohio on Election Day.

Democrat Frank J. Battisti wins Mahoning County’s closest race, unseating Judge Harold P. Doyle on Common Pleas Court.

Boardman Township voters reject a proposed incorporation by a vote of three to one, 7,181 to 2,260.

November 5, 1933: Arthur W. Williams, head of the city’s financial affairs for eight years as auditor and finance director, says that home rule government is more economical than code government and the city charter allowed Youngstown, which had been broke, to pay off millions in bonds that had been issued by the city.

To fail to support the public schools is to abandon national progress, influence and stability, says Atty. Homer E. Carlyle, commander of Youngstown Post 15, American Legion, in the November issue of the Youngstown Education Association bulletin.

The first of a series of free organ recitals is presented at the Stambaugh Auditorium by Thomas Webber Jr., nationally known organist and organist for the First Presbyterian Church of New Castle.