YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 9

Today is Thursday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2017. There are 52 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1620: Passengers and crew of the Mayflower sight Cape Cod.

1872: Fire destroys nearly 800 buildings in Boston.

1935: United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders form the Committee for Industrial Organization (later renamed the Congress of Industrial Organizations).

1965: The great Northeast blackout begins as a series of power failures. It lasts up to 131/2 hours and left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.

1967: A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasts off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.

1976: The U.N. General Assembly approves resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.”

1989: Communist East Germany throws open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans dance atop the Berlin Wall.

2007: Six U.S. troops die in an insurgent ambush in the high mountains of eastern Afghanistan, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in Afghanistan since 2001.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Wendell Lauth, president of the Packard Museum, and Ted Hirt, museum treasurer, are seeking interesting stories about the Packard family and their business for a video documentary to be shown at the museum.

Amish residents of the United States are being urged to get polio vaccinations after an outbreak of the disease among the Amish in Holland.

Overall oil and gas well drilling in Ohio declined in 1991 to its lowest level in 22 years, but Trumbull County ranked second and Mahoning County fourth in the state.

1977: Lordstown voters reject an initiative to repeal the village’s recently enacted 0.5 percent income tax by a vote of 599 to 463.

Democrat J. Phillip Richley is easily elected mayor of Youngstown in a three-way race, winning a plurality with 22,349 votes, which was 7,763 more than his closest opponent, Republican Emanuel Catsoules. Independent Ron Daniels got 8,134 votes.

Rose DeGise and Annabelle Bodnar, members of Citizens for the Rights of the Majority, win upset victories in the Youngstown Board of Education race, defeating two incumbents, Ralph Clark and Thelma Gerthing. Incumbent Jennie Dalessandro was re-elected.

1967: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt issues an arrest warrant for Struthers rackets figure Charles Carabbia after the U.S. Supreme Court turns down Carabbia’s appeal of a one-to-five-year prison sentence for assault with a dangerous weapon.

The new coronary and intensive care units at the Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle, Pa., are activated with the newest in heart- monitoring equipment.

Bridge and a buffet luncheon are featured for ladies day at the Fonderlac Country Club. Mrs. Philip Culcasi presides, and honors at cards go to Mrs. Edward Betts and Mrs. George Anthony.

1942: Chaney High School’s scrap team leads the other six Youngstown high schools to victory in the Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce’s four-Sunday scrap-collection drive.

Albert Spalding, celebrated concert and radio violinist, is in Youngstown for his third performance with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.

U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, D-19th, spent $4,300 on his campaign, according to official reports.