YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2016. There are 56 days left in the year. Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday at 2 a.m. locally; clocks go back one hour.

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1605: The “Gunpowder Plot” fails as Guy Fawkes is seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.

1872: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony defies the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. Grant. (Anthony was convicted by a judge and fined $100, but she never paid the penalty.)

1935: Parker Brothers begins marketing the board game “Monopoly.”

1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in office as he defeats Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.

1968: Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Democratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace.

2011: Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, accused of molesting eight boys, is arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts. (Sandusky was later convicted and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for the sexual abuse of 10 boys over a 15-year period.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Four Shenango Valley communities – Farrell, Wheatland, West Middlesex and Shenango Township – could cut their annual police costs by $90,0000 by forming a single police department, a steering committee finds.

Cortland City Council gives first reading to an ordinance banning landfills, waste treatment facilities and incinerators – including home incinerators – within the city.

A typical resold home in Youngstown cost $54,900, according to August sales figures, second lowest in the nation to only Saginaw, Mich., where the median resale figure was $52,000. Honolulu was highest at $345,000, according to the National Association of Realtors.

1976: Frank C. Watson, president of the Youngstown Welding & Engineering Co., will be the chairman of a $3 million drive to cover half the cost of a proposed stadium and sports complex at Youngstown State University.

Harriet Wick Schaff, 53, curator of the Arms Museum and a member of Youngstown’s pioneer Wick family, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while vacationing in Massachusetts.

In response to reports of mail-order doctor of divinity degrees being issued by a California firm for $20, Ohio Secretary of State Ted W. Brown proposes legislation to require all ministers in the state to be licensed by his office after swearing that they represent a bona fide congregation.

1966: Speaking at his inauguration, Youngstown University President Dr. Albert Pugsley says YU will continue to help students who need financial aid and will look at the possibility of establishing branch campuses.

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati says that a federal judge in Columbus erred when he freed Youngstown Racketeer Joseph Naples from a one-to-seven-year sentence on gambling and receiving stolen goods.

1941: A charter amendment to permit party primaries in Youngstown municipal elections, a 3.6-mill levy for city schools and a countywide half-mill levy for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium are overwhelmingly approved by voters.

Four new members are elected to Youngstown City Council: Ben Roth, William D. Holt, Guy T. Ohl and John J. Janci.

Pete Penguin II, a male Humboldt penguin, has been ordered from Oceanside, N.Y., at a cost of $150, and the new mascot is expected to be at Rayen Stadium for the Youngstown College-Akron University game.