Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2011. There are 42 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1794: The United States and Britain sign Jay’s Treaty, which resolves some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.

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 dedicates 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.

1969: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make the second manned landing on the moon.

1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to visit Israel.

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

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1986: A group representing a cross-section of the community recommends the City Hall Annex, the old downtown post office, as the new site of the Mahoning County Department of Human Services.

A group of Hilltop area residents tell Weathersfield Township trustees that the $487 tap-in fee for a new federally funded water line in the area may make water service unaffordable for many users.

Work is nearly complete on the $4.9 million family court center in Warren for the Juvenile and Domestic Relations courts.

1971: The Western Reserve Transit Authority says 25 cent bus fares will return on a part-time basis during the Christmas shopping season.

Youngstown Hospital Association opens bids totaling $10.6 million on a new six-story wing at the South Side unit.

Dr. David A. Belinky rules homicide in the death of Henry Jackson, a volunteer watchman at the Buckeye Elks Lodge, 421 North Ave., who was brutally beaten by thieves who took $400 from the lodge.

1961: The Youngstown district’s biggest steel customers, the auto factories, are rolling out new cars at near capacity rates, promising better times ahead for the steel district.

Mayor-elect Harry N. Savasten says cutting city spending will be his top priority when he takes office in January.

Youngstown Traffic Coordinator John F. Pletnik announces that the rush-hour parking ban downtown will be removed Nov. 22 and parking meter payments extended.

1936: Warren police arrest Joseph Poholsky on a warrant charging him as one of three men who murdered Harry R. Miller, a retired Cincinnati fire captain said to be worth $150,000, at his summer home in New Trenton, Ind.

A plan to revamp the state welfare system to establish clinics for treating patients for incipient insanity proposed by Gov. Martin L. Davey would probably eliminate the need for establishing a long-sought Mahoning County psychopathic hospital.