Today is Saturday, Nov. 19, the 324th day of 2016

Today is Saturday, Nov. 19, the 324th day of 2016. There are 42 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1863: President Abraham Lincoln dedicates a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

1919: The Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles to end World War I by a vote of 55-39, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.

1959: Ford Motor Co. announces it is halting production of the unpopular Edsel.

1969: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make the second manned landing on the moon.

1985: President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev meet for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.

2005: Two dozen Iraqi men, women and children in Haditha are slain by U.S. Marines after a Marine is killed by a roadside bomb. (Eight Marines were initially charged; one was acquitted and six others had their cases dropped.)

2015: A study by the Pew Research Center finds that more Mexicans are leaving than moving into the United States, reversing the flow of a half-century of mass migration.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The 32-member citizens committee that was created to advise the Youngstown Board of Education asks the board to provide it with more information on plans to consolidate some of the city’s five high schools.

A flu outbreak that closed several Mahoning Valley schools is continuing, with absenteeism reported at 20 percent in Boardman schools and as high as 30 percent in some Austintown schools.

Trumbull County commissioners approve a 75 percent tax abatement for 10 years to General Motors Corp., which is planning $55.7 million in capital improvements at its Lordstown complex.

1976: Youngstown’s recently overhauled vice unit flexes its muscles, by raiding two gambling and after-hours drinking joints on the South and East sides, arresting 27 people.

Judith Hayes, Youngstown wife of a railroad worker and mother of three, wins $51,000 in the Ohio Lottery’s Double Play drawing.

Six unions representing 425 Youngstown municipal workers approve new contracts providing 6 percent raises in 1976 and 1977, about a half-percent less than the police and fire contracts.

1966: General Motors Corp.’s Lordstown plant will make some important changes in the types of cars being assembled there. The plant will be closed in late December for line modifications in connection with the changes.

U.S. Roman Catholics are told they should decide for themselves whether to eat meat on Fridays, ending a 1,000-year tradition. Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone says those who eat meat are advised to practice some other form of voluntary penance.

Official election returns show U.S. Rep Michael Kirwan received about 72 percent of the vote in the 19th Congressional District, a record for an off-year election.

1941: Five tentative plans for a new Spring Common Bridge, ranging in cost from $375,000 to $550,000, are presented by Mahoning County Engineer Robert Schomer at a meeting of county, city, railroad and state and federal representatives.

Employees of Carnegie-Illinois Corp.’s local plants will be represented when a Navy “E” award for excellence in production is presented to the corporation in Pittsburgh.

Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra are on the Palace Theater stage in downtown Youngstown. On the screen is a double feature, Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard in “Nothing but the Truth” and Henry Lyden in “Henry Aldrich for President.”