YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 12

Today is Monday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2018. There are 49 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1866: Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China, is born.

1927: Josef Stalin becomes the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party.

1942: The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins. (The Allies ended up winning a major victory over Japanese forces.)

1984: Space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snare a wandering satellite in history’s first space salvage; the Palapa B2 satellite is secured in Discovery’s cargo bay for return to Earth.

1998: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley files a $433 million-dollar lawsuit against the firearms industry, declaring it has created a public nuisance by flooding the streets with weapons deliberately marketed to criminals.

2008: Same-sex marriages begin in Connecticut.

2013: An international panel of architects announces that the new World Trade Center tower in New York would replace Chicago’s Willis Tower as the nation’s tallest building upon its completion.

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1993: General Motors and the International Union of Electrical Workers reach a tentative agreement, heading off a strike by almost 7,000 workers at Packard Electric plants in Warren and Cortland.

Opera singer Giorgio Tozzi, who credits Franz Bibo, former Youngstown Symphony music director, with giving him his first opportunity to sing Scarpia in “Tosca,” establishes a scholarship at Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music.

Dr. Nicholas Rango, a Youngstown native and Cardinal Mooney graduate who became one of the highest profile and most successful AIDS activists in New York City, dies at 49 of the disease he battled.

1978: Randy Thomas of Boston and Malcolm East of London demonstrate the international spirit of Youngstown’s Peace Race by crossing the finish line grasping hands and both clocking in at one hour, 17 minutes, 38 seconds for the 25-kilometer course. Sandra Graham, a 17-year-old Hickory High student, was the first woman at 1:47.30.

N. Laird Eckman, executive director of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce Regional Growth Division, says the area will make a determined effort to land the U.S. car assembly plant being considered by Toyota, the largest Japanese auto maker.

The election of Democrat Ted Vannelli to the Trumbull County commissioner’s seat vacated by Lyle Williams will give longtime Democratic Commissioner Walter Pestrak the opportunity to put together a new majority, leaving Republican Anthony Bernard in the minority.

1968: Carl J. Kotheimer, 21, of Boardman is elevated to the rank of major general in ROTC at Ohio State University, making him the highest-ranking ROTC officer in the nation.

One of the largest crowds to see a Veterans Day parade in Youngstown – 20,000 strong – turns out to mark the 50th anniversary of the World War I Armistice.

Citing repeated snags in plans for a new Children’s Home and the “political situation” in the Trumbull County commissioners office, Dr. James Williams resigns as chairman of the Child Welfare Board.

1943: Youngstowners are subdued in their marking of the 25th anniversary of Armistice Day. Veterans groups march, but the active-duty military men who marched in past years weren’t available for this parade.

A turkey, one of many running loose in the poultry house of Oles Market, noticed a pane of glass missing in one of the windows and flew out. He was trapped by firemen as he tried to climb a ladder at First Baptist Temple.