Years Ago

November 9, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2010. There are 52 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1872: Fire destroys nearly 800 buildings in Boston.

1935: United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and other labor leaders form the Committee for Industrial Organization (later renamed the Congress of Industrial Organizations).

1938: Nazis loot and burn synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that becomes known as “Kristallnacht.”

1963: Twin disasters strike Japan as some 450 miners are killed in a coal-dust explosion, and about 160 people die in a train crash.

1965: The great Northeast blackout occurs as a series of power failures lasting up to 131/2 hours leave 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.

1970: Former French President Charles de Gaulle dies at age 79.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker warns that unless repairs are made to the courthouse roof, it is only a matter of time until the building is shut down.

Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge Martin P. Joyce denies a Boardman man temporary custody of Marcel Driver, 17, a Detroit youth who was enrolled in Boardman schools and was expected to play basketball there.

Georgia state Sen. Julian Bond accuses the Reagan administration of blatant racism during a keynote speech to the Black Knights Police Organization at Mr. Anthony’s in Youngstown.

1970: Donald Hole, president of Hole Construction Co. of Alliance, and two of his employees, Bibiano Quiroga and Harry Hick, are killed when their twin engine plane crashes into a house near Ann Arbor, Mich.

The National Highway Safety Bureau announces it is ordering auto manufacturers to build tougher doors on cars beginning in 1973, a response to statistics that show 14 percent of road accidents involve autos struck from the side, but those accidents represent 21 percent of the fatalities.

1960: John F. Kennedy carries Mahoning County by 30,499 and Trumbull County by 5,975, while Richard Nixon carries Columbiana County by about 8,000 in a close race in which Nixon wins Ohio but loses the presidency.

Mahoning County commissioners John Palermo, Democrat, and Edward Gilronan, Republican, are re-elected in Mahoning County.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan carries the 19th District by 62,915 over Atty. Paul Stevens to win a 13th term.

1935: A million dollar improvement to the Republic Steel Corp. plant in Warren is nearing completion and the company is anticipating another $2 million in work.

The East Ohio Gas Co. reports a steady month-to-month climb in the number of occupied Youngstown homes. The company had 36,501 connections at the end of October, compared to 35,995 a year earlier.