Today is Friday, Nov. 14, the 319th day of 2008. There are 47 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Nov. 14, the 319th day of 2008. There are 47 days left in the year. On this date in 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” is first published in the United States.

In 1881, Charles J. Guiteau goes on trial for assassinating President Garfield. (Guiteau is convicted and hanged the following year.) In 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) sets out to travel around the world in less than 80 days. (She makes the trip in 72 days.) In 1908, Joseph R. McCarthy, the Republican senator from Wisconsin whose anti-communism campaign generated much controversy, is born in Grand Chute. In 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation begins its domestic radio service. In 1940, during World War II, German planes destroy most of the English town of Coventry. In 1969, Apollo 12 blasts off for the moon. In 1970, a chartered Southern Airways DC9 crashes while trying to land in Huntington, W. Va., killing all 75 on board, including the Marshall University football team and its coaching staff.

November 14, 1983: Elmer Reese, general chairman, and Otto Thomas, co-chairman, announce that the Trumbull County United Way campaign raised $2,337,283, a record, though it fell 3 percent short of the campaign goal.

Picket lines are set up at the Leonard Kirtz school for the mentally retarded in Austintown as teachers and aides go on strike.

The Cleveland Browns defeat Tampa Bay 20-0, the first shutout for the Browns in nine years.

November 14, 1968: Former Mahoning County Sheriff Paul Langley and his sister, Jane Langley Chesney, die of heart attacks within two hours of each other. Langley was 66; his sister, 71.

The Tod Hotel, a Central Square landmark that once provided lodging for celebrities visiting the city, will be closed and demolished as part of Youngstown’s urban renewal program.

Youngstown City Council passes legislation intended to speed work on reconstruction of Central Square.

November 14, 1958: Atty. Clarence Robinson, for more than 40 years one of Ohio’s most respected citizens, is honored by some 500 friends in a testimonial dinner at the Hotel Pick Ohio.

The Ohio Highway Patrol marks its 25th anniversary with open houses at all posts. The patrol was launched with 54 motorcycles and six cars in 1933 and has grown to a force of 700 troopers.

Rep. and Mrs. Michael J. Kirwan leave on a 26-day tour of the West and Southwest and will include visits to projects that come under the auspices of the appropriations subcommittee for the Interior Department, which he heads.

November 14, 1933: Two hundred city employees in the water and streets departments are clip-ped from the payroll on the order of Mayor Mark Moore. The cuts will save the city $200,000 a year.

Youngstown City Council authorizes the purchase of 200 small stoves that will be given to the poor.

Mrs. Fred Orr begins her 18th consecutive term as chairman of the Mahoning chapter of the American Red Cross following her re-election at a reorganization meeting at the Youngstown Club.