Years Ago
Today is Thursday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2011. There are 44 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1800: Congress holds its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
1869: The Suez Canal opens in Egypt.
1911: The African-American fraternity Omega Psi Phi is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
1979: Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1991: The first national TV commercial for condoms (Trojan) airs during an episode of the Fox situation comedy “Herman’s Head.”
VINDICATOR FILES
1986: LTV Corp. has changed the status of its Campbell seamless pipe mill and Brier Hill bar mill from “idled” to “shutdown” which will trigger the payment of severance benefits to 1,300 employees.
Paul Maguire, a graduate of Ursuline High School and the Citadel who played 11 years in the American Football League, is now an NBC analyst. He says the media encouraged him over the years, especially Vindicator Sports Editor Chuck Perazich, “who saw something in me when I was a young player that I didn’t see”
1971: Ground is broken for a $3.8 million expansion to the Kilcawley student center at Youngstown State University.
A 22-year-old registered nurse and mother of an 11-month-old son is sentenced to 10 to 20 years in Marysville Reformatory for selling $100 worth of LSD tablets to an undercover agent in the parking lot of North Side Hospital.
1961: Youngstown detectives arrest two men as prime suspects in the abduction and rape of a 16-year-old West Side girl.
The official count in the Nov. 7 election is in, giving Republican Harry Savasten an additional 101 votes and a 4,219-vote margin over Mayor Frank R. Franko.
1936: Steel output in the Mahoning Valley jumps to 73 percent of capacity and banks report the distribution of $200,000 to Christmas Club members.
Directors of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. order the payment of $8.25 per share in accumulated dividends.
Atty. Joseph E. Julius, former mayor of Campbell and active in Mahoning County politics, is taken to Cleveland by federal agents on charges of passing counterfeit $20 bills in Sacramento Calif.