YEARS AGO FOR NOVEMBER 4

Today is Sunday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2018. There are 57 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1879: Humorist Will Rogers is born in Oologah, Okla.

1922: Entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb is discovered in Egypt.

1939: The United States modifies its neutrality stance in World War II, allowing “cash and carry” purchases of arms by belligerents, a policy favoring Britain and France.

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.

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

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Youngstown Law Director Ed Romero says a proposal by U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. that Youngstown share income tax recepits from a proposed Pentagon finance center with the school district and the Western Reserve Port Authority would be illegal.

Local pipe and tube producers – including Sawhill Tubular, Sharon Tube and Wheatland Tube – join forces with other U.S. industries to oppose the current version of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades (GATT).

State Rep. Joseph Koziura, D-Lorain, will introduce a resolution to put a casino riverboat gambling issue on the statewide ballot.

1978: Construction could be underway by 1980 on a $1.8 million interchange that will allow eastbound Interstate 680 traffic to reach state Route 11 north without backtracking.

The Mahoning Valley is in the third day of an air stagnation advisory as a high pressure cell continues to trap pollutants in the air.

After members of USW Local 4960 engaged in a wildcat strike over the suspension of three workers, Charles W. Syak, president of Syro Steel in Girard, says the company may look elsewhere for a reliable labor force rather than suffer the fate of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Aeroquip, Taylor-Winfield and Ajax Magnethermic.

1968: The Seventh District Court of Appeals orders the Portage County Board of Elections to accept the registration of two Kent State University students, Charles D. and Patricia May, as voters. The board had refused to recognize the married couple as voters because they are students.

Ohio records one of its most grisly weekends of the year on the state’s highways with 36 people dying in traffic accidents.

A three-alarm fire fed by dry lumber sweeps through the old Stambaugh Lumber Co. on Worthington Street, doing $10,000 damage and threatening nearby buildings.

1943: A new contract to end the coal miners’ strike will give union miners an additional $1.50 per day. Short-term operations at Youngstown steel mills will depend on how fast miners return to work.

Four Youngstown men allegedly involved in a black market of truck gasoline coupons are arrested by Youngstown detectives Edward Przelomski and John Albaugh after a two-week investigation.

Nick Romas, alleged pick-up man for the Big House lottery who was indicted for perjury by a special grand jury investigating vice in Mahoning County, surrenders to county authorities and is placed under a $1,000 bond.