Thursday, November 19, 2009
Today is Thursday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2009. There are 42 days left in the year. On this date in 1863, President Abraham 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 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 XII 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. In 1984, some 500 people die in a firestorm set off by a series of explosions at a petroleum storage plant on the edge of Mexico City. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev meet for the first time as they begin their summit in Geneva. In 1999, hundreds of anti-American protesters battle riot police and set stores and banks ablaze as President Bill Clinton rides through Athens in a tight security cocoon and proclaims a “profound and enduring friendship” with Greece. World leaders at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Turkey sign a treaty cutting the number of non-nuclear weapons systems across Europe.
November 19, 1984: A memorial plaque commemorating “the achievements and genius” of the late Edward Gill, chief engineer of the Sandy and Beaver Canal, built in 1834-37, is installed on a picturesque rock at Guilford Dam west of Lisbon.
Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Ron Jaworksi is talking not only about making the playoffs, but winning the division after the Eagles beat the Washington Redskins, 16-10.
YSU Coach Mike Rice and his Youngstown State University Penguins launch the 1984-85 season hosting the Karlovac Yugoslavian National Basketball Team, winning 73-58.
November 19, 1969: Trumbull County sheriff’s deputies come within a hair’s breath of surprising post office burglars in Kinsman after receiving a tip that someone was inside the building. As they arrived, deputies saw a car driving away and three men running into a field behind the building.
The Youngstown City School District will pay a Cleveland consulting firm up to $35,000 to make a comprehensive school facilities survey.
High wind lifts off the roof over a swimming pool at the Congress Inn at 9934 Market St.
November 19, 1959: A car and a station wagon collide in state Route 5 north of Cortland killing four young men, brothers Donald and Richard Bassett, 17 and 20 of Warren, George Arnio, 20, of Cherry Valley, and Glen Hall, 27, of Burghill.
Carbon monoxide fumes from a defective flue on a gas furnace kill former Sharon Mayor J. Fred Thomas, 77, and his stepdaughter, Mrs. Mary Davis, 45, in his Chestnut Avenue civil engineering office.
November 19, 1934: Prosecutor J. H. Leighninger posts $2,170 for a recount in 217 precincts in the race in which he lost by a narrow margin to W.A. Ambrose.
A warm breeze sweeps through the Youngstown area overnight, bringing an unusual mid-November lightning storm.
An underworld threat to force Gov.-elect Martin L. Davey to “make certain appointments” leads state and local police to provide protection for his daughter, Evangeline, from Kent to the Ohio State-Michigan game.