Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2011. There are 56 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday local time. Clocks move back one hour.

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1605: The “Gunpowder Plot” fails as Guy Fawkes is seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.

1911: Aviator Calbraith P. Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, Calif., completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49 days.

Singing cowboy star Roy Rogers is born Leonard Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in office as he defeats Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.

1968: Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace.

1974: Ella T. Grasso is elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.

1990: Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist, is shot to death at a New York hotel. (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair is convicted of the slaying in federal court.)

1991: Death claims publishing magnate Robert Maxwell at age 68 and actor Fred MacMurray at age 83.

2009: A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas leaves 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder.

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1986: Democratic Gov. Richard F. Celeste wins a landslide re-election victory over former Gov. James A. Rhodes.

Thomas Moyer is the new chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, defeating the incumbent, Frank Celebrezze, 55 percent to 45 percent.

George J. Tablack, a CPA, sweeps to victory in the race for Mahoning County auditor, getting more votes than his three challengers, Charles D. Zamary, George M. McKelvey and William F. DePiore, combined.

1971: A 160-room Hospitality Motor Inn is being planned for just off Belmont Avenue at I-80.

Children in Mahoning County’s 11 local school districts will no longer be tested by psychologists unless parents consent, says Dr. Robert Shreve, county superintendent.

A matching grant of $15,000 is offered to the Youngstown Symphony Society by the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities.

1961: Two Youngstown policemen were surprised, searched and questioned in two of the gambling places raided by U.S. Treasury agents, eyewitnesses declare.

Warren St. Mary’s captures the Turnpike Conference football title with a 14-6 victory over West Branch.

1936: A substantial increase in business at the General Fireproofing Co. will result in a pay increase for 1,500 employees. The amount of the increase will be based on the employees’ rate cards.

Nearly 100 employees in the Mahoning County Courthouse face loss of their jobs as six Republican officials are to vacate their offices as a result of the Democratic landslide.

“Portrait of Fira Barchak” by Eugene Speicher, noted contemporary American artist, is on exhibit at the Butler Art Institute, on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art of New York.