Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2014. There are 53 days left in the year.

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1793: The Louvre art museum begins admitting the public, even though the Paris museum has been officially open since August.

1864: President Abraham Lincoln wins re-election as he defeats Democratic challenger George B. McClellan.

1889: Montana becomes the 41st state.

1923: Adolf Hitler launches his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that comes to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch.”

1932: New York Democratic Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover for the presidency.

1942: Operation Torch, resulting in an Allied victory, begins during World War II as U.S. and British forces land in French North Africa.

1950: During the Korean War, the first jet-plane battle takes place as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down a North Korean MiG-15.

1960: Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.

1974: A federal judge in Cleveland dismisses charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen accused of violating the civil rights of students who were killed or wounded in the 1970 Kent State shootings.

1988: Vice President George H.W. Bush wins the presidential election, defeating the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.

1994: Midterm elections result in Republicans winning a majority in the Senate while at the same time gaining control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

California voters approve Proposition 187, designed to deny education and social services and non-emergency health care to illegal immigrants.

2009: The embattled president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, pledges there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration, as demanded by the U.S and its international partners.

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1989: George Sigler, 74, Lawrence County, Pa., sheriff, who has been in law enforcement for 54 years, is defeated by Robert L. Clark, 54, of Hickory Township, a retired Washington, D.C., police officer.

Warren voters soundly defeat ballot initiatives seeking to bar city services for a $35 million state prison and a regional waste incinerator.

Andrew Polovischak Jr. defeats Edwin Romero, 17,588 to 8,954, to succeed Lloyd R. Haynes as Youngstown Municipal Court Judge.

1974: Sadistic burglars invade a South Side house in Youngstown, tying up a 62-year-old woman and her husband and raping the woman before escaping in the family car.

Resurfacing of Youngstown Municipal Airport’s main 7,500-foot runway allows the airport to restore full service.

FBI agents raid eight businesses and homes in Mahoning and Trumbull counties as part of an investigation into illegal gambling.

1964: Jeanne Alice Cegledy of Campbell reigns over Youngstown University’s 24th annual homecoming. Her attendants are Marsha Rosselli and Gwen Stone.

Youngstown Steel Door’s carside welding operation plans an $875,000 building addition.

1939: Judge William B. Spagnola leads Youngstown’s eight-man mayoral race with 23,418 votes, while his nearest competitors are Arthur W. Williams with 17,673 and John W. Powers with 14,721.

In a unanimous decision, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a National Labor Relations Board order placing the blame for the 1937 “Little Steel Strike” on Republic Steel Corp. An estimated 3,200 Youngstown district worker would get their jobs back under the ruling.

Four incumbents on the Youngstown Board of Education are re-elected over their seven challengers. Re-elected are Sarah Peterson, Clyde Hossel, L.U. Hulin and Robert Wadsworth.