Today is Thursday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2018. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All

Today is Thursday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2018. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1512: Michelangelo’s just-completed paintings on the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel are publicly unveiled by the artist’s patron, Pope Julius II.

1765: The Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament, goes into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.

1861: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln names Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan General-in-Chief of the Union armies.

1870: The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.

1936: In a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini describes the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Rome and Berlin.

1950: Two Puerto Rican nationalists try to force their way into Blair House in Washington, D.C., in a failed attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman.

1952: The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb, code-named “Ivy Mike,” at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

1973: After the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.

2017: Federal prosecutors bring terrorism charges against the man accused in the Manhattan truck rampage that left eight people dead a day earlier.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Mahoning County auditor says while property valuations are going up by 20 to 50 percent, most owners will see little or no increase in their tax bills because of House Bill 920 that reduces collectable millage when valuations increase.

A wet, heavy snow brings down trees and wires in Mercer County, Pa., and leaves 4,000 Sharon area homes without electricity.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. tells Mahoning County Democrats at the annual pre-election brunch that he is “99 percent sure” he will run for re-election in 1994 and not for the U.S. Senate.

1978: Directors of Commercial Shearing Inc. spread some early Christmas cheer in the Youngstown business district, declaring a regular dividend of 20 cents a share and a special year-end dividend of 40 cents a share.

Sharon Steel Corp. buys the bankrupt Alan Wood Steel Co.’s modern steelmaking shop, which includes two basic oxygen furnaces, to help expand and improve its Farrell steel works.

James C. Miller, general campaign chairman, reports that the Youngstown Area United Appeal drive exceeded $2 million, reaching 98.8 percent of its goal. “Somehow there must be another $24,000 out there,” he says.

1968: Charles M. Beeghly, member of one of Youngstown’s most prominent families, will retire as chairman and CEO of the huge Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh.

Federal grants for $6.5 million for two Youngstown urban renewal projects are announced by U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan. The grants include the Youngstown Health Center at St. Elizabeth Hospital and the East Walnut Street site of a new post office.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will put back into operation its blooming mill and three open hearths at the Campbell Works, boosting area steel output to near 90 percent.

1943: Thirty miners at the Coyer coal mine in Springfield Township, Mercer County, Pa., walk off the job when a truce between the company and the United Mine Workers expires.

An increase from 3 cents to 4 cents in postage for out-of-town letters is voted by the House Ways and Means Committee. The Air Mail rate will be cut from 10 cents to 8 cents.

Eugene S. Rook, a figure on the Youngstown theater scene for decades and the last surviving charter member of the Elks Club, dies in South Side Hospital at 86.