YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 7

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2018. There are 54 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1862: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaces Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.

1874: The Republican Party is symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.

1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress, winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

1962: Richard M. Nixon, having lost California’s gubernatorial race, has what he calls his “last press conference,” telling reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”

1967: Carl Stokes is elected the first black mayor of a major city – Cleveland.

1980: Actor Steve McQueen dies in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, at age 50.

2008: In his first news conference since being elected president, Barack Obama calls on Congress to extend unemployment benefits and pass a stimulus bill.

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1993: Archeologist examinations along the north shore of Lake Wilhelm in the Goddard State Park in northeastern Mercer County, Pa., indicate that American Indians were camping there more than 9,000 years ago.

The Route 224-South Avenue intersection in Boardman is Mahoning County’s busiest with the Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency estimating more than 55,000 vehicles pass through it daily.

The Youngstown State University Penguins win their eighth straight home game, defeating Indiana State, 17-10.

1978: Lyle Williams, Republican candidate for the 19th Congressional District, expresses disappointment that supporters of incumbent Charles J. Carney have distributed a flier that contains a letter from Nathaniel Lee that says “black people can expect little from a candidate whose attitude is in line with that of Ronald Reagan, the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan.”

Liberty and Canfield dominate the All-Mahoning Valley Conference golf selections with Steve Baroff, Dan Perry and Tim Jurkovac coming from Liberty and Tim Bresnahan and Tim McCabe from Canfield.

1968: The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Republic Steel Corp., both major local producers, have joined other steel firms in cutting prices of hot-rolled carbon steel sheets by $25 a ton.

The administration and council in Struthers suggest that irregularities in procedure may have contributed to the defeat of two issues on the ballot. A machine failure is being investigated.

1943: Toy dealers face the greatest Christmas demand in history and have only enough stock in quantity and variety to satisfy about half the demand.

East Liverpool war industry workers and pottery employees gird for a battle to determine whether this city shall operate on Eastern War Time or turn its clocks back to Eastern Standard Time.

In addition to their many other duties, Cpls. William Starr of Youngstown and Joseph Sivy of Ravenna assist in the serving of Mass at simple ceremonies in the heart of Indian jungles near the Burma [Myanmar today] border.