Today is Sunday, Nov. 16, the 321st day of 2008. There are 45 days left in the year. On this date in

November 16, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 16, the 321st day of 2008. There are 45 days left in the year. On this date in 1908, conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his debut with the New York Metropolitan Opera as he leads a performance of Verdi’s “Aida.”

In 1776, British troops captureFort Washington in New York during the American Revolution. In 1885, Canadian rebel leader Louis Riel is executed for high treason. In 1907, Oklahoma becomes the 46th state of the union. In 1917, Georges Clemenceau again becomes prime minister of France. In 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations. In 1959, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” opens on Broadway. In 1961, House Speaker Samuel T. Rayburn dies in Bonham, Texas, having served as speaker since 1940 except for two terms. In 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954. In 1973, Skylab 4, carrying a crew of three astronauts, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission. In 1982, an agreement is announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.

November 16, 1983: The Most Rev. James W. Malone, bishop of Youngstown, is elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops when 300 bishops meet in Washington, D.C.

Seven striking employees of the Leonard Kirtz School for the Retarded are arrested for disorderly conduct when they attempted to block entrances to the school on Woodridge Drive.

November 16, 1968: Three DeNiro bothers begin serving probation for their convictions for evading $55,494 in federal estate taxes on assets of their slain brother, Vince. U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti vacated the jail term the brothers faced and ordered probation.

The Ohio Education Association agrees to provide interest-free loans to Youngstown school teachers who will be without work or pay when the school system shuts down for the rest of the year on Nov. 27.

Ken Kacenga, senior halfback, works his way across a muddy Rayen Stadium field to score two touchdowns, leading the YSU Penguins to a 26-12 win over heavily favored Eastern Kentucky.

November 16, 1958: Two men are shot in the eyes in Mahoning County and five hunters in Portage County report various wounds on the first day of rabbit and duck hunting in Ohio.

November 15, 1933: In addition to the $1 million shorn from the 1934 city budget by the county budget commission, the city probably will carry over into the new year an operating deficit of about $600,000. Those are the numbers that caused Mayor Mark Moore to announce the layoff of 200 city employees.

Gov. George White tells the newly created civil works administration that if it has the money ready, Ohio can put as many as 76,000 men to work immediately.

William Harmon, 30, son of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Harmon of Grove City, is electrocuted while working on the KDKA radio station in Butler County.