Friday, November 18, 2016
Today is Friday, Nov. 18, the 323rd day of 2016. There are 43 days left in the year.
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1883: The United States and Canada adopt a system of Standard Time zones.
1928: Walt Disney’s first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, “Steamboat Willie” starring Mickey Mouse, premieres in New York.
1966: U.S. Roman Catholic bishops issue a Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence, which did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays outside of Lent.
1978: U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others are killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings are followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members.
2015: The Islamic State group announces that it had killed a Norwegian man and a Chinese man after earlier demanding ransoms for the two.
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1991: Two Youngstown men are dead of burns and gunshot wounds after a fight at a South Side drug house that involved throwing sulfuric acid and firing bullets at each other. Dead are Anthony Gowdy, 20, and Rudolph Glenn, 43.
Quarterback Bernie Kosar says the new coach, Bill Belichick, has brought a new attitude to the Cleveland Browns, but Cleveland sports writers find him secretive and sometimes surly. Which doesn’t make him a bad guy, writes Vindicator Sports Editor Chuck Perazich.
Mahoning Valley businessmen and union officials say five years of rising costs have created a health care crisis that can’t be fixed with Band-Aids.
1976: The Boardman Youth Center loses its battle for survival after the Youngstown Hospital Association announces that the lease that made the center available rent-free for four years is being canceled.
Four plaques for new construction are awarded by the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce’s civic improvement awards committee: the Cafaro Co.’s headquarters improvement, the Union National Bank drive-in on Commerce Street, the William F. Maag Library and the College of Applied Science Technology building at Youngstown State University.
After weeks of indecision, Youngstown City Council passes laws setting aside $767,000 for a low-cost home-improvement program, reducing the annual salaries of Youngstown’s three Civil Service commissioners from $1,500 to $240 a year and borrowing $170,000 to replace two hangar doors at the airport.
1966: Steps to re-establish a citizens planning commission for health and hospital services in the Youngstown-Warren area are taken by leaders of industry, labor, churches, hospitals and health agencies in the Cotillion Room.
J. Howard Laeri, a former Youngstowner and successful New York banker, says at the 61st annual Youngstown Chamber of Commerce dinner that today’s businessmen must recognize their responsibility to improve society.
Burglars lower themselves by rope into the Komara Jewelers on State Street in Struthers, making off with money and the store’s diamond and watch inventory. The loss is estimated at $5,000, and the FBI has been called in.
1941: Quick-witted Margaret Ball tricks a young bandit holding up a dry-cleaning store on Himrod Avenue by hiding the cash drawer with a petty cash bin that held only $2.
Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola says he wants to leave office in 1944 with a “job well done” and asked the new city council to cooperate in solving pressing city problems.
Jan Kiepura, famed Polish tenor, appears in Youngstown and assures area Poles that their country will rise again from under the Nazi heel.