Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2014. There are 49 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1815: American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in Johnstown, N.Y.

1927: Josef Stalin becomes the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party.

1936: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens as President Franklin D. Roosevelt press a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to traffic.

1942: The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins. (The Allies end up winning a major victory over Japanese forces.)

1948: Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders are sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.

1969: News of the My Lai Massacre in South Vietnam in March 1968 is broken by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

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1989: The Trumbull County Board of Elections combines 42 precincts into 21, a move that could save about $12,000 a year. Most of the precincts are in Warren and Niles and once had larger populations.

Canfield’s boys soccer team loses the state Division II title to Cincinnati Roger Bacon, 4-0, after battling to a 0-0 tie at halftime.

Packard Electric, which first moved production of automotive wiring to a small plant in Mexico in 1978, now has 16,000 workers south of the border, about twice the number that are working in Warren.

1974: Nearly 2,500 Youngstowners turn out in 54-degree temperatures and impending rainfall, for the annual Veterans Day Parade downtown.

A man sought by police for questioning in the shooting death of Patricia L. Cellio, 20, surrenders at the Mahoning County sheriff’s office. The missing woman’s body was found in the trunk of her car in Lackawanna Township, Mercer County, Pa.

Richard Hary, 34, of Salem receives the maximum suggestion award of $10,000 for his idea to insert a filler panel in the front fenders of the Lordstown-built Chevrolet Vega to retard rust.

1964: Six hundred U.S. Steel pensioners are honored at a Calvin Center luncheon. Albert Hobart, 88, was the oldest pensioner honored.

The Edward J. DeBartolo Co. sells the Hickory Shopping Plaza to Samuel M. Hyman Group of Pittsburgh. Since World War II, DeBartolo has developed 73 shopping centers from Canada to Florida.

The Veterans Day parade draws thousands to downtown Youngstown to see school bands and units of the Navy, Army and Air Force Reserves march.

1939: A fleet of 38 trucks of the McCullough Transfer Co. of Youngstown make a trial haul of 600 tons of coal from the Negley coal washing plant of Pittsburgh Coal Co. to Republic Steel Corp. in Youngstown.

Payrolls of Youngstown District steel mills amounted to about $8 million in October, nearly twice as much as in October 1938.