Today is Sunday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2016

Today is Sunday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2016. There are 55 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1860: Former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party is elected president of the United States as he defeats John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.

1861: Confederate President Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term.

1906: Republican Charles Evans Hughes is elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.

1928: In a first, the results of Republican Herbert Hoover’s presidential election victory over Democrat Alfred E. Smith are flashed onto an electric wraparound sign on the New York Times building.

1934: Nebraska voters approve dissolving their two-chamber legislature in favor of a nonpartisan, single (or “unicameral”) legislative body, which was implemented in 1937.

1944: British official Lord Moyn eis assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang.

1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower wins re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.

1962: Democrat Edward M. Kennedy is elected senator from Massachusetts.

1976: Benjamin L. Hooks is chosen to be the new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins.

1984: President Ronald Reagan wins re-election by a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic challenger.

1990: About one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California is destroyed in an arson.

2006: On the eve of midterm elections, Democrats criticize Republicans as stewards of a stale status quo while President George W. Bush campaigns from Florida to Arkansas to Texas in a drive to preserve GOP control of Congress

2012: President Barack Obama is elected to a second term of office, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney..

2015: Ending a seven-year political saga, President Barack Obama kills the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would have undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate-change deal at the center of his environmental legacy.

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1991: Youngstown 6th Ward Councilman James E. Fortune is narrowly defeated in his bid for a sixth two-year term by Roland Fabrizio by a margin of 38 votes.

Warren’s veteran law director, William McLain, is defeated by Atty. Gregory Hicks, 7,032 to 5,499.

Elaine Mancini, a Boardman Board of Education member, defeats incumbent Paul Shovlin and another challenger, Ed Aey, for a seat on the Boardman Township Board of Trustees.

1976: Youngstown police Chief Donald Baker disbands the Special Operations Unit, reassigning 17 officers to various divisions and shifts. Detective John E. Lynch III is named vice section chief, and five new officers are assigned to his unit.

Some 200 members of the Service Employees International Union are on strike at East Liverpool City Hospital.

George J. Grabner, president of Lamson & Sessions Co., says there are no plans to move the Youngstown Steel Door Co. plant or to drastically alter its Youngstown operations.

1966: If Vietnam War pressures ease, Congress will be asked in 1992 to provide millions of dollars to buy land for the Grand River Reservoir plus $2.5 million to speed planning for a Lake Erie to Ohio River canal.

Maribeth Eckert, a graduate of Boardman High School, starts her career as an Eastern Airlines stewardess after graduating from In-Flight Training School in Miami.

Michael Holliday of Youngstown is elected president of the reorganized Carmelite Guild at a meeting in St. Teresa Monastery, Volney Road. Other officers are William Beil, Peg O’Malley and Estelle Campbell.

A celebration takes place for the burning of the mortgage for the $300,000 modernization program of Struthers United Presbyterian Church.

More than 200 dogs from 13 states will participate in the Youngstown All-Breed Training Club’s fifth annual obedience trials at the Mahoning County Experimental Farm and Jackson-Milton High School.

1941: Youngstown College’s homecoming queen is sophomore Jeanne Belle- ville, Pasadena Avenue, a member of Phi Lambda Delta. Attendants are Naomi Joerndt, Phyllis Jones, Nora Neumeister and Olga Parfenchuk.

The War Department announces that it will build a $40 million TNT plant in Crawford County, Pa., near Meadville.

Pleased with results of the charter-amendment election and with the new membership of Youngstown City Council, Mayor William B. Spagnola plans a friendly dinner meeting to discuss city problems.

Clouds of smoke from industrial plants, busy company parking lots and crowds of workmen are signs of Youngstown’s record-breaking October business.