Years Ago

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

Today is Friday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2010. There are 49 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1815: American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in Johnstown, N.Y.

1927: Josef Stalin becomes the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party.

1942: The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins. (The Allies end up winning a major victory over the Japanese.)

1970: The Bhola cyclone strikes East Pakistan; it’s believed half a million people, possibly more, are killed.

1982: Yuri V. Andropov is elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee.

1996: A Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collides shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, killing 349 people.

2001: American Airlines Flight 587, en route from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Dominican Republic, crashes after takeoff, killing 265 people.

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1985: Service and technical workers have set a Dec. 1 strike deadline for the Youngstown Hospital Association’s three facilities, North Side, South Side and Tod Children’s hospitals.

Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, leader of Catholic Bishops in the United States, says he expects an upcoming worldwide gathering of Roman Catholic leaders to reinforce, not dismantle the sometimes controversial changes of the past 20 years, especially on social issues.

1970: Youngstown police believe they’ve attacked about 99 percent of the city’s illegal drug traffic in raids that brought the arrest of 16 people.

Some 3,800 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. employees are furloughed for one week because of abnormally high inventories of finished products caused by the General Motors strike.

The United Appeal discusses ways of meeting budget shortfalls, including reconfiguring the budgets of each participating agency or putting into effect a 10 percent across-the-board cut.

1960: An auto traveling at a high rate of speed roars off Route 46 two miles south of Ashtabula, killing four men, the driver and three passengers.

A 23-year-old Alliance man held on a charge of breaking and entering, escapes from Sebring’s 50-year-old jail by unraveling wire from a broom and using the wire and a nail from the broom to lift the latch on his cell door.

The Youngstown Board of Control says it will not buckle to demands by property owners for payment above the appraised value of parcels being purchased for construction of the city’s arterial highway system.

1935: Youngstown’s oldest veteran, P.D. Thomas, 93-year-old Civil War veteran, is present as a bronze Road of Remembrance tablet is unveiled during Armistice Day ceremonies at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce announces its opposition to a canal linking the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

Paul Jones of 337 Cohasset Drive, a bus driver and radio fan, says he picked up shortwave broadcasts from the high-altitude balloon launched from Rapid City, S.D., by the National Geographic Society and Army Air Corps that reached a height of 73,000 feet.