YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2015. There are 49 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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

1936: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens as President Franklin D. Roosevelt presses 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 ended up winning a major victory over Japanese forces.)

2001: American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 headed to the Dominican Republic, crashes after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground.

2010: The Supreme Court allows the Pentagon to continue preventing openly gay people from serving in the military while a federal appeals court reviews the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. (The policy was rescinded in 2011.)

2014: President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announce a ground-breaking agreement between their countries to curb carbon emissions blamed for climate change.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Area elected officials say the “60 Minutes” profile of U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. unfairly portrayed Youngstown as a rundown steel town controlled by organized crime.

Youngstown has received a $450,000 grant and will start a mandatory recycling program in the city in 1991.

SCORE in Youngstown, the Senior Corps of Retired Executives, reports it counseled 525 people during the year ended Sept. 30.

1975: Floyd G. Williams Jr., 19, of Leavittsburg, an employee of the Niles Garbage Agency, is fatally injured when struck by a company truck on Woodglen Avenue in Niles.

Two Madison Village police officers and a Lake County deputy sheriff report after strange, moving lights toward Painesville after their departments received reports of a UFO. The lights, which appeared to be bigger than a house, disappeared in a flash.

Youngstown State University’s women’s hockey team completes its first winning season in five years with a 5-1 defeat of Lake Erie College for Women.

1965: The Youngstown Board of Control awards a $39,500 contract to a Miami firm to conduct a feasibility study for a downtown transportation center.

McDonald’s restaurants, now in eight convenient locations in Youngstown, Warren and Sharon, celebrate their sixth anniversary in the Mahoning Valley offering a free hamburger and birthday cake to each customer.

1940: A crowd of 20,000 braves stormy weather to line the streets of downtown Youngstown for the Armistice Day parade that featured 5,000 marching soldiers from Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Youngstown priests attend a Mass in Cleveland honoring Bishop Joseph P. Hurley, a former assistant pastor at St. Columba Church in Youngstown, who has been named to head the St. Augustine, Fla., diocese.

Coal and building supply trucks in Warren and Niles are back on the road after a four-day strike that resulted in drivers getting a 5-cent an hour raise.