YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2014. There are 55 days left in the year.

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1814: Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, is born in Dinant, Belgium.

1854: John Philip Sousa, America’s “March King,” is born in Washington, D.C.

1860: Former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln defeats three other candidates for the presidency: John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.

1861: Confederate President Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term of office.

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1989: David Effron, in his third season as musical director and conductor for the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, says the first years were hard because the orchestra had been without a conductor for three years.

Niles will install two new weather emergency sirens at a cost of $17,000 to replace two sirens that failed emergency tests.

1974: Former Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes, who in the early morning hours conceded defeat to Gov. John J. Gilligan, is declared the winner by 10,178 votes in a race that is sure to face a recount.

Former Astronaut John Glenn is elected U.S. senator from Ohio, defeating Cleveland’s Republican mayor, Ralph Perk.

Warren city schools will close when the district runs out of money, likely Dec. 6, following voter defeat of a 6.8-mill levy.

1964: Cardinal Mooney parents and band members plan a spaghetti dinner to raise money for new band uniforms.

Former President Richard Nixon and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller blame each other for party divisions and Barry Goldwater’s loss of the presidential election. They call for renewed party unity.

1939: Tallow being boiled to treat Arthur A. Waites Jr., 18 months, for a skin ailment, sparks a fire at the old Cornersburg Hotel that killed him and his sisters, Marie, 4, and Gloria Anne, 6 months. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Waite and a son, Raymond, 3, survive, but Mr. Waite was painfully burned and cut in his rescue attempts.

Youngstown clergymen in almost every pulpit in the city urge residents to vote, but few ministers or priests mention or suggest specific candidates.

Hundreds of Youngstown numismatic enthusiasts view one of the most valuable coin collections ever displayed in the city , that of A. Kosoff of New York City, during the Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Club convention at the Hotel Ohio.