YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 3

Today is Saturday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2018. 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.

1908: Republican William Howard Taft is elected president, outpolling William Jennings Bryan.

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.)

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

1986: The Iran-Contra affair comes to light as Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran.

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

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1993: Youngstown voters elect one newcomer to the Board of Education, Robert E. Bush Jr., and re-elect two incumbents, rivals Socrates Kolitsos and Don Hanni III.

Liberty Township voters sweep two incumbent trustees, Carol DeFrank and Daniel J. Novello, out of office, electing Patricia Metzinger and Eileen Smith.

Howland Township elects its first woman trustee, Darlene St. George and re-elects veteran Richard E. Orwig.

1978: The Ohio Rail Transportation Authority will begin an 18-month assessment of a high-speed railroad passenger link for Youngstown and three other corridors.

The Ohio Edison Co. disputes charges by state Sen. Neal F. Zimmers Jr., D-Dayton, that the company was improperly permitted to recover some of the costs of buying outside power during last winter’s coal strike.

Four sticks of dynamite, wires and dynamite caps are found behind a house at 137 W. Indianola Ave. that was formerly occupied by Osvaldo “Pete” Giordano, who has been identified as a federal informer on organized crime.

1968: Dr. Martin Essex, state superintendent of public instruction, rules out – firmly and emphatically – any possibility of outside financial help to Youngstown schools if voters reject the 12-mill levy on the ballot.

A general alarm fire in New Castle, Pa., destroys a woman’s clothing store, a poolroom and bowling alley and threatens adjoining businesses in the 200 block of Washington Street. Damage is estimated at $150,000.

Dr. Raymond Lupse, chief of pediatrics for the Youngstown Hospital Association, is among five members installed in the national alumni board at Ohio University.

1943: The mayorality of Youngstown awaits a recount after unofficial results show Republican Arthur H. Williams with a six-vote margin over Democrat Ralph W. O’Neill, 21,664 to 21,658.

Republic Steel Corp. takes down four open hearths, reduces Bessemer operations to 80 percent, reduces coke production and slows iron production in an effort to conserve coal during a miners’ strike.

Dr. Bertrum Firestone of Youngstown, on duty in North Africa, is promoted to the rank of captain.

The Buckeye Land Co., organized 20 years ago to build houses for rent and sale to Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. employees, is being dissolved. The remaining 110 lots are being transferred to Sheet & Tube.