Today is Thursday, Nov. 17, the 322nd day of 2016

Today is Thursday, Nov. 17, the 322nd day of 2016. There are 44 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1558: Elizabeth I accedes to the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign.

1800: Congress convenes its first session in the partially completed U.S. Capitol building in Washington.

1934: Lyndon Baines Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as Lady Bird, in San Antonio, Texas.

1973: President Richard Nixon tells Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Fla.: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

1979: Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

1991: The first national TV commercial for condoms (Trojan) airs during an episode of the Fox situation comedy “Herman’s Head.”

2006: Cast into the minority in midterm elections, House Republicans choose John Boehner of Ohio to lead them.

2011: Occupy Wall Street protesters clog streets and tie up traffic around the U.S. to mark two months since the movement’s birth.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The Youngstown Board of Education has been talking about consolidating high schools for a decade, but isn’t close to taking action, despite dropping enrollments and rising costs. Chaney has the highest enrollment at 985, followed by Wilson at 971; East, 886; South, 755; and Rayen, 744.

Stephen Pressley Jr., Youngstown Area Urban League president, says as the economy worsens, racial tensions between city and suburban residents appear to be increasing.

The Youngstown State University Penguins get their seventh victory with a 40-21 win over Slippery Rock at Stambaugh Stadium.

1976: A 30-foot-tall blue spruce is erected in Federal Plaza in downtown Youngstown for Christmas. The tree was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Herrlich, 180 E. Ravenwood Ave.

The Youngstown Diocesan Board of Education votes 6-5 against helping financially burdened inner-city schools during the coming year. The vote was taken over the objection of Auxiliary Bishop William Hughes, who said the church has an obligation to help minorities and the underprivileged.

Ronnie D. Turner, 33, of Palmyra Road Southwest is killed when his auto was slammed by a train on the Erie-Lackawanna Crossing on Diehl South Road in Warren Township.

1966: Paul Savachko, 23, helps rescue his four younger brothers and sisters, then runs a block to pull a box alarm after a $7,500 fire broke out in the basement of their split-level home on Cranbrook Circle.

Youngstown University asks the Ohio Board of Regents to establish a new Northeastern Ohio medical center at the university.

Damage estimates reach $59,000 in a three-alarm fire that spread from a trash fire to Sleep-Rite Products Inc. on Market Street, the adjacent News Center and four upstairs apartments.

Youngstown City Council authorizes the urban renewal staff to apply for a $6.7 million loan and grant for an urban renewal project east of Walnut Street. The grant includes funding for a $3.5 million Post Office.

1941: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. expects a contract with the Defense Plant Corp. to build a steel ingot plant at Indiana Harbor, Ind.

More than 2,000 spectators cheer at the dedication of Boardman’s new $15,000 stadium.

Marble boards, which were banned from taverns by state liquor agents as gambling devices, have reappeared. Protests have been registered that they are not gambling devices.

Youngstown City Council is expected to pass legislation turning over to the federal government 200 acres of land at the site of the Berlin Reservoir for $1.