Today is Monday, Nov. 7, the 312th day of 2016. There are 54 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, Nov. 7, the 312th day of 2016. There are 54 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress, winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution takes place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrow the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

1962: Republican Richard Nixon, having lost California’s gubernatorial race, holds what he calls his “last press conference,” telling reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” Also former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, 78, dies in New York City.

1972: President Richard Nixon is re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Columbiana County Common Pleas Judge Douglas Jenkins permanently bars all protesters from going on the East Liverpool site where Waste Technologies Industries is building a hazardous-waste incinerator.

Dr. William C. Binning, chairman of Youngstown State’s Political Science Department, suggests that 18 candidates in the race for Youngstown Board of Education contributed to the re-election of three incumbents, Anthony Julian, Edna Pincham and Billy Tanner, despite an outcry for change by board critics.

Torent Inc. a Youngstown-based venture capital company expects the slow economy to lead to its first loss in 12 years, Chairman David Tod tells shareholders.

1976: Robert K. Dornan, a Los Angeles television and radio personality, will speak on the “Porno Plague” at a meeting of the Trumbull County Chapter of the Citizens for Decency through Law at Harding High School.

Breezewood Patsy Bar Pontiac, national champion milk and butterfat producer at Henry and Herman Gelbke’s Breezewood Farms in Fowler Township, Trumbull County, celebrates her 12th birthday.

Youngstown State freshman Chuck Haynali boots a record three field goals to propel the Penguins to a 36-14 victory over Eastern Illinois before 3,500 fans at Rayen Stadium.

1966: Ray Hagstrom, 78, of Billings Mont., the superintendent of the Christ Mission Settlement in Youngstown for 35 years and founder of many welfare programs in the community, dies after a long illness.

Jemela Rose Matta, 119 Broadway, is fatally injured when an 80-pound barbell falls on her head at a neighbor’s home.

A 19-year-old Youngstown University football player and six teammates leave for Costello, Pa., to search for the youth’s father, Oscar Smith, who has been missing five days after going on a hunting trip.

The International Fraternal Commemorative Society presents two medals to the George Washington Mother Lodge, F&AM at Alexandria, Va. The medals were made locally by a group headed by J.W. Arment and Louis Beno.

1941: A choir of some 300 voices representing Protestant church choirs of the district will assist in the public service at Stambaugh Auditorium on opening day of the Community Fellowship on Democracy and Religion.

A shortage of iron and steel scrap causes a cut in steel output in the Youngstown district. The operating rate slips 1 percent to 97 percent of capacity.

Conneaut Lake, a Pennsylvania resort visited by hundreds of Youngstown district persons every year, may soon become part of the site of a $40 million TNT plant to be built by the federal government.