Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2011. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day.

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1512: Michelangelo finishes painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

1765: The Stamp Act goes into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.

1936: In a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini describes the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Rome and Berlin.

1968: The Motion Picture Association of America unveils its new voluntary film rating system.

1979: Former first lady Mamie Eisenhower, 82, dies in Washington, D.C.

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1986: The Ohio Department of Development rejects a Niles application for a $90,000 grant to pay for breaching the 4-foot-high dam on Mosquito Creek near Robbins Avenue and state Route 46.

Former Gov. James A. Rhodes, who is running against Gov. Richard F. Celeste, endorses the containment of AIDS victims, saying there’s “probably six or seven different ways” to get the disease.

1971: Heavy voting is expected in Youngstown, with as many as 60,000 voters expected in the city on election day.

Youngstown police are investigating reports of harmful objects, including razor blades and needles, in Halloween treats collected by children in the city.

The Sammy Kaye Orchestra will provide the music for the 12th annual St. Elizabeth Hospital Charity Ball, which will be held at the Eastwood Mall.

1961: A strike at the Deming Division of the Crain Co. in Salem idles 360 union workers at the plant. The company has asked for cuts in wages and benefits equivalent to 71/2 cents an hour.

W.F. Rudibaugh, Elk Run Township farmer, emerges from the Columbiana County corn husking contest as the winner and the county’s entry in state competition, after husking 1,343 pounds of corn in 80 minutes.

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1936: U.S. Sen. James J. Davis returns to his hometown of Sharon, Pa., to close the Mercer County drive to elect Alf Landon president and launches a bitter attack of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Jesse King, 58, and his two sons, Gaines, 24, and James, 20, are slightly injured when their truck plunges off the Division Street Bridge and into the Mahoning River, where it was partly submerged in the muddy water.

John H. Clarke, the only living retired justice of the Supreme Court, formerly of Youngstown and now living in California, says he is backing President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. He praises Roosevelt for making the nation aware of the plight of the farmer on whom society relies.