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Today is Thursday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2015. There are 42 days left in the year.

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1831: The 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, is born in Orange Township, Ohio.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln dedicates a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

1915: Labor activist Joe Hill is executed by firing squad in Utah for the murders of Salt Lake City grocer John Morrison and his son, Arling.

1919: The Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.

1942: During World War II, Russian forces launch their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.

1969: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make the second manned landing on the moon.

1985: resident Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev meet for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.

1990: The pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the “Girl You Know It’s True” album.

1995: The animated film “Toy Story,” a Buena Vista Pictures release, has its world premiere in Hollywood.

2010: President Barack Obama, attending a NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, wins an agreement to build a missile shield over Europe, a victory that risked further aggravating Russia. T

2014: Defying Congress, President Barack Obama orders sweeping changes in U.S. immigration policy possibly affecting as many as 5 million living illegally in the U.S.

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1990: After a chase, police shoot and kill Willie T. Montgomery of Campbell, who had killed his wife, Geraldine, and wounded her 10-year-old son.

Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Patrick Kerrigan says he will not arraign 20 anti-abortion protesters being held in City Jail unless they identify themselves and walk into the courtroom. A group of protesters arrested earlier refused to cooperate with police and the court but were still released by Judge Frank X. Kryzan on their own recognizance.

Despite increases that have driven the price of turkey to $1.14 a pound, Youngstowners still prefer turkey to any other main course for Thanksgiving dinner. Ten years earlier, turkey cost 45 cents a pound.

1975: Bids for construction of basic campus facilities for Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine at Rootstown total $9.8 million at the opening of bids at the state architect’s office in Columbus. The bids were $232,679 below the state architect’s estimate.

Youngstown Fire Engineer George Bode is injured when he falls through a section of burned out stairway while fighting a fire at 155 W. Evergreen Ave.

1965: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan’s office announces the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency approves a loan of $1.5 million to build a senior citizens housing project named Eldercrest Apartments.

Youngstown, eight other municipalities and 31 regional industries ask to submit comments on a federal order that they expand wastewater treatment to end pollution of the Mahoning River.

Trumbull County Commissioner Gary Thompson suggests that part of the Lordstown Military Reservation be used for a countywide vocational school.

1940: An order of 5,000 tons of steel bars for reinforcing concrete at the huge munitions plant being build between Newton Falls and Ravenna is awarded to the Paterson-Leitch Co. of Cleveland.

Youngstown Law Director John Willo rules that the city cannot install parking meters on the north side of Commerce Street because they would interfere with freight unloading.

Mahoning County commissioners purchase a new Hudson deluxe model for $1,295

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