Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 19, the 324th day of 2008. There are 42 days left in the year. On this date in 1863, President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address as he dedicates a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
In 1794, the United States and Britain sign Jay’s Treaty, which resolves some issues left over from the Revolutionary War. In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, is born in Orange Township, Ohio. In 1917, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is born in Allahabad. In 1919, the Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification. In 1942, during World War II, Russian forces launch their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front. In 1959, Ford Motor Co. announces it is halting production of the unpopular Edsel. In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make the second manned landing on the moon. In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
November 19, 1983: Youngstown State University trustees approve a tentative plan for $57 million in capital improvements on the campus over the next six years.
Santa and Mrs. Claus, portrayed by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Zetts, arrive at the Southern Park Mall in Poland Township’s 1917 American-LaFrance fire engine.
Ursuline’s road to a Division II state championship ends in the Akron Rubber Bowl before 5,210 fans as Brecksville defeats Coach Dick Angle’s Irish, 13-0. Brecksville will meet Celina for the state championship.
November 19, 1968: A completely new truck assembly plant employing about 1,800 and costing an estimated $50 million will be built by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors adjacent to its car manufacturing plant at Lordstown.
The Mahoning County Welfare Department will seek $924,268 from the county’s general funding for 1969, Welfare Director James E. O’Brien discloses.
Tempers flare during a meeting of the Youngstown Board of Education as plans are made to operate city schools through June 23 in 1969 to make up for days lost at the end of 1968, when schools will be closed for lack of funds.
November 19, 1958: The Green Spot Cafe at 1329 E. Indianola Ave., only a stone’s throw from Adams School in Youngstown, is given a license to sell hard liquor, despite protests of parents, school heads and state liquor department officials.
Juvenile Court Judge Henry P. Beckenbach orders a 14-year-old East Side girl to buy a new shirt for the one she tore while struggling with an East High School teacher and is warned that she’ll be sent to the Girls Industrial School if she misbehaves again.
Two men are rescued and 33 lost when the freighter Carl D. Bradley sinks in the cold, storm-tossed waters of Lake Michigan.
Myron H. Watkins, vice president of sales for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., tells 65 Youngstown district purchasing agents that the outlook is good for steel production in Youngstown in 1959.
November 19, 1933: The Association of Italian Men in Youngstown mounts an effort to interest every individual and organization in Youngstown in the Beaver-Mahoning canal project to the end that the government will see the community is wholeheartedly behind the plan.
Invitations to enroll in the annual Red Cross roll call are being issued from pulpits of all Youngstown churches on a day designated as “Red Cross Day.”
Directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States adopt resolutions striking at the recovery policies of the Roosevelt administration, including monetary policy and low-cost housing projects.
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