YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 4

November 4, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2017. There are 57 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 a.m. local time. Clocks go back one hour.

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1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine.

1942: During World War II, Axis forces retreat from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Bernard Montgomery.

1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.

1979: The Iran hostage crisis begins as militants storm the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants. For some of them, it would be the start of 444 days of captivity.

1980: Republican Ronald Reagan wins the White House as he defeats President Jimmy Carter by a strong margin.

1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a festive peace rally.

2008: Democrat Barack Obama is elected the first black president of the United States, defeating Republican John McCain.

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1992: Trumbull County Commissioner Anthony Latell, a Democrat, pulls an upset, defeating Republican incumbent Charles Henry for Ohio’s 32nd District Senate seat.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, is re-elected with a 175,000-vote margin over his challenger, Salvatore Pansino, in the 17th Ohio District, and Tom Ridge, R-Erie, is easily re-elected in Pennsylvania’s 21st District.

Democrat Bill Clinton gets a majority of the presidential votes in Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio and Lawrence County in Pennsylvania over Republican President George Bush and Independent Ross Perot. In Columbiana County in Ohio and Mercer County in Pennsylvania, Clinton got a plurality.

1977: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. continues to wind down operations in Campbell with layoffs reaching 3,750 of the 5,000 that are expected, based on the company’s announcement on “Black Monday.”

Educational Opportunity Youngstown receives affirmations from nine of the 11 candidates for Youngstown Board of Education committing to abide by whatever decision the federal courts make in the school desegregation case. Two challengers, Rose DeGise and Annabelle Bodnar, decline.

Alert action by a Vindicator carrier, James Crabb, 15, is credited with saving a 75-year-old customer who suffered a stroke. Crabb noticed that a day-old paper was still on George Lingenfelter’s porch and went to a neighbor for help.

1967: Hugh A. Frost, Republican candidate for mayor, warns that urban renewal could result in Youngstown having too much tax-exempt property.

A small Lisbon factory has, in the past 20 years, quietly lured 15 percent of the nation’s chain-hoist business from giants of the industry. The Chester Hoist Division pours $320,000 a year into the local economy in wages for 63 employees.

1942: Judge John W. Ford is elected to serve out the unexpired term on the late George Gessner on Mahoning Common Pleas Court.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Youngstown Democrat, shows unexpected strength in many normally Republican precincts and is re-elected over James T. Begg despite a Republican trend in the county, state and nation.

Gov. John W. Bricker amasses a record percentage of the gubernatorial vote and becomes the first Republican in Ohio history to win three- consecutive terms.