Today is Friday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2008. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2008. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

In 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado are fired on by state police; six miners are killed. In 1942, the Alaska Highway is formally opened. In 1958, baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel Ott dies in New Orleans at age 49. In 1964, the upper level of New York’s Verrazano Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island, is opened. In 1967, President Johnson signs the Air Quality Act. In 1969, the Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, 55-45, the first such rejection since 1930. In 1973, President Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 181‚Ñ2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

November 21, 1983: Dominic Walley, 30, owner of Walley Construction Co. of Girard, and five other area men die when their twin-engined plane slams into a remote wooded hillside near Franklin, Pa., after the pilot, Larry McGory, reported losing power.

Pamela H. Rigas of Canfield, Miss Ohio and third runner up in the Miss America pageant, is honored by St. John Greek Orthodox Church for her accomplishments and devotion to her faith.

The Cleveland Browns rout the New England Patriots, 30-0, in Foxboro, Mass., and the Minnesota Vikings upset the Pittsburgh Steelers, 17-14, in Pittsburgh to end the Steelers’ seven-game winning streak.

November 21, 1968: A $2 million Development Program Fund is launched by the Youngstown YMCA to meet the growing needs of the area and expand facilities to take care of an estimated youth population growth of 42 percent by 1980.

The Youngstown Community Action Council approves an expanded Headstart summer program that would cost $190,158.

Thomas Bertch, owner of a shopping plaza on S. Schenley Avenue offers a site that could be developed into a park to which the Man on the Monument statue could be located. The statue’s future is in jeopardy to the imminent remodeling of Central Square.

November 21, 1958: Youngs-town City Council ignores the appeals of Kirkmere area residents and votes 5-2 for a commercial zone change on Canfield Road that will allow construction of a shopping plaza just east of Cornersburg.

Interviewed in his plush Washington office, International Teamsters President James R. Hoffa predicts that feuding Youngstown Local 377 officers will “kiss and make up” regardless of the outcome of court battles over the eligibility of three rank-and-file candidates.

November 21, 1933: There was a day when graduation from high school was a ticket to employment, but that day has passed and hundreds of high school graduates line up at the State City Employment Bureau seeking federal relief jobs.

Dr. Walter Strand opens his drugless chiropractic clinic in offices on the second floor of the Realty Building. Dr. Strand uses the latest in electro-therapeutic machines and X-rays to treat sinus, tonsil and rheumatic ailments.