YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 17

Today is Friday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2017. There are 44 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1558: Elizabeth I accedes to the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign.

1800: Congress holds its first session in the partially completed U.S. Capitol building.

1917: French sculptor Auguste Rodin dies in Meudon at age 77.

1925: Actor Rock Hudson is born Roy Harold Scherer Jr. in Winnetka, Ill.

1973: President Richard Nixon tells Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Fla.: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

2007: A Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel says in a landmark report released in Valencia, Spain, that the Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace.

2016: President-elect Donald J. Trump, at Trump Tower in New York, has his first meeting with a world leader, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and received advice from former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William T. Bodoh rules against a motion seeking to delay Major League baseball’s expansion draft until Michael I. Monus’ ownership status with the Colorado Rockies can be determined.

Hubbard City Council members unanimously reject joining a countywide 911 plan, saying they cannot support it until they know what it would cost city residents.

An arbitrator’s decision gives Youngstown City School District’s 550 nonteaching employees 2 percent pay raises.

1977: Youngstown City Council wants a meeting with Treasury Department officials to find out how civil-service tests can be verified as not discriminating against minorities after the city is threatened with the loss of federal funds because of a lack of minority workers in several departments.

Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes says the Miller Brewing Co. has narrowed its choice for a new brewery to five sites, and Youngstown remains in the running.

All Youngstown wage owners will have to file city income-tax returns for 1978 as part of a crackdown on tax evaders. Finance Director John Benninger says the city will also go after those who work in the city but live outside of it and don’t pay taxes.

1967: John S. Wright, 37, formerly of Youngstown is one of three employees of Scientific Data Systems of Huntsville, Ala., killed when a private plane crashes at Birmingham Municipal Airport.

Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive in downtown Youngstown to star in the third-annual McKelvey-Strouss Hirshberg Christmas Parade, which ushers in the Christmas shopping season.

William Gutknecht Sr., 84, head of Youngstown Arch Engraving Co. and consultant of Roll, Die and Mold Inc., is in South Side Hospital after breaking his hip in a fall.

1942: Youngstown schools Superintendent George Bowman blames a drop in attendance for the second-straight month on an unseasonable epidemic of colds.

Trumbull County Auditor David Wick resigns to accept a position as chief petty officer in the Navy.

Bishop Edward F. Hoban of Rockford, Ill., is designated co-adjutor bishop of Cleveland, with the right of succession to Archbishop Joseph Schrembs.

Clingan Jackson, Vindicator political writer, will address the annual meeting of the Tri-County Journalism Association at Chaney High School.