YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2015. There are 41 days left in the year.

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1945: Former Nazi officials go on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. (Almost a year later, the International Military Tribune sentenced 12 of the defendants to death; seven received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life; three were acquitted.)

1620: Peregrine White is born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay; he is the first child born of English parents in present-day New England.

1789: New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1910: The Mexican Revolution of 1910 has its beginnings under the Plan of San Luis Potosi issued by Francisco I. Madero.

1925: Robert F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Mass.

1947: Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.

1959: The United Nations issues its Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

1967: The U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticks past 200 million.

1969: The Nixon administration announces a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout.

A group of American Indian activists begins a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

1975: After nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco dies, two weeks before his 83rd birthday.

1985: The first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, is officially released.

1992: Fire seriously damages Windsor Castle.

1995: Olympic figure-skating champion Sergei Grinkov dies of a heart attack in Lake Placid, N.Y.

BBC Television broadcasts an interview with Princess Diana, who admitted being unfaithful to Prince Charles.

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1990: Speaking at Youngstown State University, former U.S. Sen. William Proxmire, well known for his thriftiness, says a money-driven political system has corrupted Congress.

Uncounted ballots from the Nov. 6 general election remain locked in a bank vault pending a recount, leaving the county’s closest race in limbo. In the race for Mahoning County Common Pleas judge, R. Scott Krichbaum received 47,551 votes to 47,433 for Beth Smith.

Bankruptcy Judge William Bodoh rules that Valley-Vulcan Mold Co. can borrow up to $1 million to facilitate its liquidation of plants in Hubbard and Latrobe, Pa.

1975: The Ohio Commission on Aging approves a third year of grants for nutrition programs for the elderly in Mahoning and Ashtabula counties.

The Ohio Supreme Court rules that the cities of Canton and Cincinnati must obey a 1969 state law requiring them to add fluoride to their drinking water.

Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone is elected chairman of the Liaison with Priests Committee at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Catholic Conference in Washington, D.C.

1965: Pfc. Elwood W. Davis Jr., 26, of Salineville, is reported killed in action in Vietnam, the first area serviceman known to have lost his life in that war.

The Selective Service Board of Columbiana County summons 127 men to report to offices in Lisbon on Dec. 1. Fifty-three are scheduled for induction into the armed services, and the others will get pre-induction physicals.

Ronald Page of Berlin Center delivers his wife’s baby girl in their car after they realized they were not going to make it to the Salem Central Clinic before the baby arrived.

1940: College football referee “Red” Friesell, who has officiated Youngstown College games, admits that he erred in giving Cornell five downs on a drive that resulted in a touchdown. Cornell promptly responds by forfeiting its 7-3 victory to Dartmouth, which is credited with a 3-0 win.

William White, former Youngstowner, will become president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, making him the youngest railroad president in New York, at 43.

Grover G. Meyer, former executive of Truscon Steel Co., succeeds Emil J. Renner as president of Renner Brewing Co. in Youngstown.