Today is Thursday, Nov. 20, the 325th day of 2008. There are 41 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Thursday, Nov. 20, the 325th day of 2008. There are 41 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.
In 1789, New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. In 1908, Anglo-American journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke is born in Salford, England. In 1910, revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero. In 1925, Robert F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Mass. In 1929, the radio program “The Rise of the Goldbergs” debuts on the NBC Blue Network. In 1945, 22 out of 24 indicted Nazi officials go on trial (one in absentia) before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1959, the United Nations issues its “Declaration of the Rights of the Child.”
November 20, 1983: It seems increasingly likely that none of Youngstown’s five high schools will be closed in 1984, despite recommendations in the school system’s Facilities Master Plan.
Leaders from government, business, labor, education and the professions will gather in Detroit to grapple with the problems faced by the Great Lakes states and develop strategies for overcoming them. The Vindicator’s Mary Beth Nord will cover the two-day conference.
The National Council of Teachers of English invites Dr. Carol Gay, professor of English at YSU, to explain how to operate an English festival for secondary school students, similar to the YSU English Festival Dr. Gay helped found.
November 20, 1968: Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt will take under consideration the legal question of whether Youngstown’s two deputy police chiefs are properly appointed by the mayor or whether the appointment should come through civil service examinations.
The Youngstown district receives its first fair measure of snow of the year, up to 4 inches, and police and the highway patrol respond to a rash of accidents.
Bennett Cerf, syndicated columnist and publisher, puns his way into the affections of a full house at Youngstown State University’s Strouss Auditorium, dealing some 600 students and faculty a laugh a minute and describing the recent presidential campaign between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey as “the most humorless ever.”
November 20, 1958: A proposed merger of Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is rejected by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Weinfeld. The merger would have been the biggest is U.S. business history, creating a company with assets of $2.7 billion.
Americans must choose between maintaining their freedom with individual responsibilities or handing over their liberties to government, Clifford F. Hood, president of U.S. Steel Corp., tells Youngstown University’s 50th anniversary convocation.
Gov. C. William O’Neill names Irvin M. Ryan of the Youngstown Community Chest to the 49-member Ohio Committee on Children and Youth to represent the state at a national White House conference in 1960. Also named to the committee is Sanford F. Jameson, superintendent of Warren public schools.
November 20, 1933: The first 1,500 needy men in Youngstown are put to work on street and sewer project under Ohio’s civil works projects. Any man who is on relief and able to work must take a job if one is offered to him, or face jail for nonsupport.
The new federal courtrooms in the Youngstown Post Office are dedicated, after which Judge Paul Jones of Cleveland, formerly of Youngstown, admits 28 attorneys from Mahoning and Trumbull counties to practice in U.S. courts.