Today is Sunday, Nov. 9, the 314th day of 2008. There are 52 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Nov. 9, the 314th day of 2008. There are 52 days left in the year. On this date in 1938, Nazis loot and burn synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what becomes known as “Kristallnacht.” It’s estimated that more than 90 Jews were killed in the pogrom.

In 1872, fire destroys nearly 800 buildings in Boston. In 1918, it is announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then flees to the Netherlands. In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders form the Committee for Industrial Organization (later Congress of Industrial Organizations). In 1953, author-poet Dylan Thomas dies in New York at age 39. In 1988, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, dies in Washington at age 75. In 1989, communist East Germany throws open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans dance atop the Berlin Wall.

November 9, 1983: Ohio voters reject a ballot proposal to increase the state’s legal age for drinking beer from 19 to 21.

Democrat Patrick J. Ungaro defeats Republican Thomas D’Amico for mayor of Youngstown, 15,487 to 12,839, in a race that had been seen as a toss-up in a Vindicator/YSU pre-election poll.

Voters give Kentucky its first woman governor, Martha Layne Collins, and Philadelphia elects its first black mayor, W. Wilson Goode.

November 9, 1968: Tony Fortunato, an assistant band director at Cardinal Mooney High School who became ill on the bus on the way back from a game at Hubbard, had to wait five minutes for oxygen outside the No. 2 fire station at Oak and Fruit Streets because firemen were out on a false alarm. When firemen returned to the station, they administered oxygen until an ambulance arrived.

Wendell Corey, a versatile actor on stage and screen for more than 30 years, dies in Hollywood. Corey had appeared in a performance of “Caine Mutiny” at Stambaugh auditorium in Yongstown several years ago and had been scheduled to appear at a GOP pre-election rally in Canfield before this year’s election, but was replaced at the last minute by actor James Drury, television star of “The Virginian.”

November 9, 1958: Hard-pressed railroads serving the Youngstown area are making a comeback as freight traffic is picking up. The five major railroads in the area have recalled a couple hundred men.

The four-story Century Building at the northeast corner of E. Federal and Walnut Streets is bought by Haber Properties Inc. from the Century Realty Co. Haber Properties is affiliated with Haber Furniture Co.

Letters and packages going to servicemen overseas by regular mail must be mailed by Nov. 20 to arrive by Christmas, says Youngstown Postmaster John E. Doyle.

November 9, 1933: More than $400,000 in Home Owners’ Loan Corp. interim certificates and cash has been received in Youngstown to assist 130 distressed homeowners, says Alfred Liebman, manager of the local office.

Youngstown gets its first touch of winter weather as the mercury drops to 28 degrees and a heavy blanket of snow falls on the area.