This Day in History

November 16, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 16, the 320th day of 2010. There are 45 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: British troops capture Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.

1885: Canadian rebel leader Louis Riel is executed for high treason.

1917: Georges Clemenceau again becomes prime minister of France.

1933: The United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.

1959: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” opens on Broadway.

1960: Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable dies in Los Angeles at age 59 shortly after he completed filming “The Misfits” with co-star Marilyn Monroe.

1966: Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.

1970: The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar jetliner goes on its first test flight from Palmdale, Calif.

1973: Skylab 4, carrying a crew of three astronauts, is launched from Cape Canaveral on an 84-day mission.

1982: An agreement is announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.

2000: Al Gore wins a legal fight to expand manual recounts as he struggles to trim George W. Bush’s 300-vote lead in Florida’s presidential race.

2000: President Bill Clinton arrives in Vietnam for the first visit by a U.S. chief executive since the fall of Saigon and the communist takeover in 1975.

2005: Hoping to reverse the deterioration of pension plans, the Senate votes 97-2 to force companies to make up underfunding and live up to promises made to employees. (The bill, however, never becomes law.)

2005: Vice President Dick Cheney joins the chorus of Republican criticism of Democrats who contended the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence on Iraq, an accusation Cheney calls “one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city.”

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1985: About 150 meat cutters and deli workers at 13 Valu King grocery stores in the Youngstown area walk off their jobs a week after contract talks broke down with the Tamarkin Co.

The Rev. Lawrence DeLion is installed as new rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Youngstown.

1970: Public hearings are held at Ursuline and Mooney high schools to explain the financial crisis facing Youngstown diocesan schools that threatens the closing of some schools.

Former state Sen. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown is sworn in in Washington to succeed the late Rep. Michael J. Kirwan in the 19th Congressional District.

A mysterious blast levels a $30,000 two-story home at 2348 Shawnee Trail. Fire chief George Panno suspects a natural gas leak.

1960: The recovery of 100 “lost” ballots while compiling official tabulations gives Democrat Joseph Baldine a 23-vote edge over his Republican opponent, Dr. W.A. James, in the Trumbull County commissioners race.

Five youths arrested in a street brawl in which one lad was seriously injured after a football game Oct. 28 are found delinquent and three are sentenced to Boys Industrial School by Judge Henry P. Beckenbach.

Girard Police Chief Leo Moran orders Frank Santisi, owner and operator of the Crown Cigar Store at 26 S. Market St., to cease all operations there following a dynamite bombing of the shop.

1935: Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser says local operators of the “bug” are finding business is down following his raids which have made it difficult for numbers runners to pay their winners.

Ten candidates for Youngstown mayor spent a total of $16,530 on their campaigns, ranging from Fire Chief Harry Callan, who spent $5,562 to Fred Flood, who spent $45. Winner Lionel Evans spent $3,558.

President Roosevelt announces that the government will buy only domestic materials for works projects financed by the government.