This day in history
Today is Monday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2010. There are 39 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1718: English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — is killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.
1930: Listeners of the British Broadcasting Corp. hear, for the first time, radio coverage of an American college football game as Harvard defeats Yale, 13-0.
1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same car as Kennedy, is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested.
1965: The musical “Man of La Mancha” opens in New York.
1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announces her resignation.
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1985: Robert A. Garvey, president of North Star Steel Co., says the company will combine high technology and open labor policies at its West Federal Street plant.
1970: Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis says 34 deputies who walked off the job because the county has run out of money to pay them must return to work or they will be decommissioned.
Cardinal Mooney wins four of six first place trophies to capture the Sweepstakes trophy in the Knights of Columbus individual events speech tournament. Woodrow Wilson high comes in second, Niles McKinley third; Ursuline fourth and Howland fifth.
1960: the Mahoning County Industrial Council warns Mayor Frank R. Franko that a proposed water rate could result in the loss of industrial customers and sought-for revenue.
The Mahoning County Board of Elections official count of Nov. 8 ballots shows that 135,685 people went to the polls, but 1,615 did not vote in the presidential race between Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon.
Between 50 and 60 guests at the Leslie Hotel, 34 E. Washington St., New Castle, are evacuated during an early morning fire that guts the top floor. Damage is estimated at $20,000.
1935: More than 4,000 men, women and children attend the 1935 edition of the Youngstown Rotary Revue at the Palace Theater.
J.C. Hedge, Mahoning County agricultural agent, says the county’s apple crop is the heaviest in some years, while the corn crop will probably be about the same as in 1934.