Today is Friday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2017. There are 58 days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2017. There are 58 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1839: The first Opium War between China and Britain breaks out.

1900: The first major U.S. automobile show opens at New York’s Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.

1911: The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. is founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant. (The company was acquired by General Motors in 1918.)

1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, the second man-made satellite, into orbit. On board is a dog named Laika, who is sacrificed in the experiment.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeats Republican Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right.

1979: Five Communist Workers Party members are killed in a clash with Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis in Greensboro, N.C.

1992: Democrat Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush.

2012: The lights come back on in lower Manhattan to the relief of residents who’d been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Superstorm Sandy.

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1992: More than 50 people push shopping carts filled with food along U.S. Route 422 in Niles to the Operation Feed The Valley site at Eastwood Mall.

Niles Municipal Judge Thomas W. Townley reduces felony charges to misdemeanors for three young men who called themselves the “Merry Pranksters” while vandalizing or setting fire to several sites, including the First Baptist Church of McDonald. The judge cited their clean records before their arrests and what a felony conviction would do to their future prospects.

Poll workers throughout the Mahoning and Shenango valleys report strong turnouts for the presidential, congressional and local elections.

1977: Four men die and two are injured in a fire that raged through the Holiday Inn on Route 422, three miles west of New Castle, Pa.

The Rev. John F. Roach celebrates a traditional Latin Mass in the clubhouse of the Four Seasons Trailer Park in Vienna Township.

The Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department begins serving a dozen subpoenas to clubs and other sites as part of an investigation into slot machines. “We don’t want another Jungle Inn atmosphere in the county again,” says Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Dennis Watkins.

1967: Two teenagers are in Youngstown City Jail as suspects in a $4,000 robbery at the Brown Derby Restaurant, 2537 South Ave.

The Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium was turned down on its bid to regain a state subsidy of $5 daily per patient.

Donald R. Dedow of Warren is named factory manager at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors.

1942: Workers in Republic Steel Corp.’s Youngstown plant shattered five production records during October. Youngstown blast furnaces turned out 127,400 tons of pig iron and the open hearths turned out 115,000 tons of steel.

Drinking among large crowds at night high- school football games may result in ending night games for city high schools next season.

A 14th child is born to Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Hough of Canfield, giving the couple 11 girls and three boys. Both Houghs are 42 years old.