YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Nov. 4, the 309th day of 2016. There are 57 days left in the year.

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1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine.

1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.

1979: The Iran hostage crisis begins as militants storm the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants; for some of them, it was the start of 444 days of captivity.

1980: Republican Ronald Reagan wins the White House as he defeats President Jimmy Carter by a strong margin.

1991: Ronald Reagan opens his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.; in attendance were President George H.W. Bush and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon – the first-ever gathering of five past and present U.S. chief executives.

2008: Democrat Barack Obama is elected the first black president of the United States, defeating Republican John McCain.

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1991: The Butler Institute of American Art is opening its first satellite museum in downtown Salem.

Susan Criss, 30, of Warren filed a telephone harassment charge against her former boyfriend a week before he allegedly stabbed her to death. He had been charged with the misdemeanor, but hadn’t been arrested before the homicide.

Nineteen new Youngstown police officers are sworn in. Thirteen are white males, five are black males, and one is a white woman.

1976: A fire of undetermined origin destroys a large barn, some farm equipment and about 40 market-size pigs at the farm of John McCurdy on Hamilton Road west of East Palestine.

A Youngstown woman is indicted by the Mahoning County grand jury on charges of theft for collecting $7,000 in Aid to Dependent Children payments for three children who died in a fire in Alaska in 1965.

Youngstown firefighters rescue Mrs. Burl Hedrick, 90, and Kenneth Allman, 19, from their apartments at 581 W. Indianola Ave. Four other residents escaped after being alerted by a neighbor. The fire was believed to have been started by a cigarette.

1966:Despite scattered snow flurries and falling temperatures, downtown Youngstown streets and stores are crowded with pre-Christmas shoppers getting an early start.

Sebring council agrees to add $100 to the $500 bequeathed to the city by Paul Gromoll to buy walkie-talkies for police officers.

The Austintown Board of Zoning Appeals grants permission for the Youngstown Model Railroad Association to establish club rooms in a building at the former Austintown Airport on Canfield Niles Road.

1941: Adolph J. Boehme, land and tax agent of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., resigns as chairman of the Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission and as chairman of the Chamber of Commerce special taxation committee.

Wilton “Bud” Taylor, 20, of New Castle is listed as missing and presumed dead in the sinking of U.S. Reuben James. Another New Castle man, Fred Zapasnik, and an Ashtabula man, R.V. Bush are reported safe.

An expert on water problems urges construction of a complete system of dams on the Mahoning River and its tributaries as government engineers promise speedy construction of the big Berlin Reservoir.

The Rev. James A. Steiner, son of the Rev. A.J. Steiner, North Lima, is a director of one of 20 camps to which 1,400 conscientious objectors to war have been assigned.