Years Ago

November 19, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2010. There are 42 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1831: The 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, is born in Orange Township, Ohio.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

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.

1959: Ford Motor Co. announces it is halting production of the unpopular Edsel.

1985: President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev meet for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.

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1985: The Ungaro Administration asks Youngstown City Council to approve 4 percent pay raises for management and other employees not represented by unions.

Boardman Fire Chief Donald C. Cover retires after a 42-year career on Boardman’s department, the last 20 as chief.

The Tamarkin Co. says it will begin to close or sell some of its 13 Valu King stores after members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union reject a tentative contract.

1970: The Youngstown Area Community Action Council proposes creation of a nonprofit transportation company owned and operated by senior citizens to serve senior citizens, the poor and disadvantaged.

Forty-seven full-time and 12 part-time deputies in Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis’ department say they will walk off the job if commissioners do not find the $8,500 needed to make the department’s payroll.

For the first time in the 75-year history of the Big Ten conference, two undefeated teams will battle in the last game of the season for the conference championship. The Ohio State Buckeyes will meet the Michigan Wolverines.

1960: Safecrackers burn their way into a small safe in the Boardman Post Office and make off with $300 in cash.

The Trumbull Elections Board declares Dr. W.A. James the winner by 26 votes over former Hubbard Mayor Joseph J. Baldine in the race for county commissioner.

1935: Sheriff Ralph E. Elser closes down the Youngstown “Big House” which he estimates was booking $4,000 in bug action a day.

Jeannette Liebert, 70, and Clarence Rutter, 46, both of Leetonia, are killed when the car in which they were riding hits the side of the Chicago-Pittsburgh flyer in Leetonia. Two others are injured.