YEARS AGO
Today is Saturday, Nov. 12, the 317th day of 2016. There are 49 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1936: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens as President Franklin D. Roosevelt presses a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to traffic.
1946: The Walt Disney movie “Song of the South,” controversial for its treatment of the film’s black characters, has its world premiere in Atlanta.
1969: News of the My Lai Massacre in South Vietnam in March 1968 is broken by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
2011: President Barack Obama met separately with the leaders of Russia and China on the sidelines of a Pacific Rim economic summit in his native
2016: President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Florent Groberg, an Army captain who shoved a suicide bomber to the ground and away from his security detail in Afghanistan. (Four people were killed in the attack; Groberg survived with severe injuries.)
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1991: Food banks in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys say they are running short of food and money and that unless there is a dramatic infusion of cash, many area residents will be going hungry.
A 31-year-old defendant being held in Trumbull County Jail awaiting trial for using force or the threat of force to obtain oral sex from 11- and 12-year-old boys has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
NRM Steelastic Inc. shuts its plants in Columbiana and Leetonia, laying off 300 workers, while officials pursue restructuring plans. The company had $14 million worth of steel ordered by Iraq that it could not ship after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
1976: The loss is expected to exceed $17,000 in a blaze at the New Castle Airport that destroyed a private plane owned by Timothy Jones of Sharon. Jones was cleaning the plane when he lit a cigarette that ignited fuel fumes.
The Mahoning Women’s Center has 10 abortions scheduled within a week, but it is not yet in compliance with Youngstown’s new law governing abortion clinics. A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law has been filed in federal court.
A 31-year-old Youngstown man is charged with robbery and assault on Austintown Police Chief James Hazlett.
1966: Youngstown district residents on The Vindicator’s Mediterranean cruise arrive home after a delay when their ship, the Atlantic, was diverted to search for an Air Force Constellation that crashed near Cape Cod.
Mrs. Bernard Kistler, 26, of Meadville, Pa., receives word that her 26-year-old Army lieutenant husband was killed in a Viet Cong ambush. She had given birth to the couple’s first son an hour earlier. Her first husband, Army Lt. William T. Reach, was killed in Vietnam 22 months earlier.
Members of Theta Chi fraternity at Youngstown University report their Saint Bernard mascot, “Ox,” was taken by a man seen putting the dog in a pickup truck.
More than 200 people are expected for the three-day meeting of board members of the Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ Inc. at the Church of Christ on Jacobs Road.
1941: Old Glory is raised to the top of a new steel flag pole in the GAR plot of Oak Hill Cemetery on Armistice Day. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. donated the pole.
Mahoning County deputies Harry Smith, Julius Tauss and Louis Kovy were on duty when they heard the siren on a sheriff’s car parked outside go off. They found a Jones Street man asleep in the car with his foot on the button. He was charged with tampering with an automobile.