YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Nov. 16, the 320th day of 2014. There are 45 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: British troops capture Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.

1907: Oklahoma becomes the 46th state of the union.

1914: The newly created Federal Reserve Banks open in 12 cities.

1917: Georges Clemenceau again becomes prime minister of France.

1933: The United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.

1939: Organized crime boss Al Capone, ill with syphilis, is released from prison after serving 71/2 years for tax evasion and failure to file tax returns.

1946: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is founded at the conclusion of a conference in London.

1959: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” opens on Broadway.

1960: Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable dies in Los Angeles at age 59.

1966: Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard of Cleveland is acquitted in his second trial of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.

1973: Skylab 4, carrying a crew of three astronauts, is launched from Cape Canaveral on an 84-day mission.

1989: Six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her daughter were slain by army troops at the University of Central America Jose Simeon Canas in El Salvador.

2004: President George W. Bush picks National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to be his new secretary of state, succeeding Colin Powell.

2009: President Barack Obama, on his first- ever trip to China, gives his hosts a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring Internet access, but the message is not widely heard in China, where the president’s words are blocked online and shown on only one regional television channel.

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1989: Linda Lutz resigns as mayor of Leetonia and takes the job of clerk because, she says, there is a backlog of paperwork and no one qualified to handle the work wants the job. Council President Jim Green will become mayor.

James A. Traficant Jr. says the next six to nine months will be the most important in the history of the Lordstown General Motors plant as GM weighs whether to continue production of its J-Car Three.

The Mahoning County and city of Youngstown health departments are considering merging operations but will first attempt to gauge the political reaction to such a merger.

1974: Boardman and Youngstown police combine forces, arresting 14 people for questioning in a series of burglaries and armed robberies in the Boardman area. An assortment of drugs and weapons is confiscated.

Fire of suspicious nature so damages the Currie School in the Fowler- Vienna School District that children will have no classes there for the rest of the school year.

Hubbard High School senior athlete Bruce Karlovic, 18, dies of injuries suffered when his car was struck by another in Route 62 near Bell Wick Road.

1964: At Cleveland’s Metropolitan General Hospital, a successful test is made of a battery-less, implantable generator to provide lifelong power for pacemakers.

Forest fires continue to ravage woodlands of the drought-stricken eastern United States. The cost of the autumn drought is record-shattering.

1939: Youngstown traffic police arrest 23 motorists on various charges, but Traffic Commissioner Clarence W. Coppersmith says it isn’t a drive. “I don’t believe in drives.”

Youngstown’s race bookmakers find themselves at a disadvantage after the Annenberg Nationwide news Service ceases operation, leaving the bookies with no quick access to race results.

Residents of the Blackburn Home for the Aged in Poland will mark the fifth anniversary of the residence.