YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 16

Today is Friday, Nov. 16, the 320th day of 2018. There are 45 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: British troops capture Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.

1907: Oklahoma becomes the 46th state of the union.

1933: The United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.

1939: Mob boss Al Capone, ill with syphilis, is released from prison after serving 71/2 years for tax evasion and failure to file tax returns.

1966: Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard is acquitted in Cleveland at his second trial of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954. He would soon begin working at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital.

1982: An agreement is announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.

2006: Democrats embrace Nancy Pelosi as the first woman House speaker in history, but select Steny Hoyer as majority leader against her wishes.

2008: Iraq’s Cabinet overwhelmingly approves a security pact with the U.S. calling for American forces to remain in the country until 2012.

2013: President Barack Obama says improved energy efficiency and higher energy production in the United States are yielding environmental and economic benefits.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Salem firefighters file an unfair labor practice complaint with the State Employment Relations Board over the refusal of Salem City Council to designate a smoking area in the firehouse. All but four of the city’s 15 firefighters smoke and were affected when council banned smoking in any city building.

A Summit County educator who conducted a two-day seminar in Youngstown says that learning centers instituted by Superintendent Alfred Tutela are improving learning.

Douglas Owsley, a curator for the Smithsonian Institution, testifies in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, on the condition of the bones of Donald Morris and his stepson, Christopher Styles, 5, that were recovered from a fire Jan. 3, 1978, in Vernon Township. Judith A. Morris Delgros is being tried for murder in the deaths.

1978: On the second annual Great American Smokeout, Warren P. Freed, president of Mahoning Culvert Co., presents $1,000 checks to seven men at his company who quit smoking for a year: Chris Demain, Ed Fell, John Presby, Bill Thomas, Daryl Gaskill, William Murray and Bob May.

The Central Area Power Coordination Group, which includes Ohio Edison, announces that because of economic and regulatory concerns, it is delaying work on three nuclear generation plants under construction, two in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania.

Congressman-elect Lyle Williams makes his first trip to Washington, D.C., in that capacity to meet with congressional Republicans and with aides to outgoing 19th Congressional District Rep. Charles J. Carney.

1968: Representatives of Local 1617, United Steelworkers of America, and General Fireproofing Co. resume talks with a federal mediator toward ending a strike that has kept the plant shut down since Sept. 25.

Ken Kacenga, a senior halfback at Youngstown State University, scores two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to lead the Penguins to a 26-12 win over favored Eastern Kentucky at Rayen Stadium.

The Ohio Education Association agrees to interest-free loans to Youngstown teachers when the school system shuts down Nov. 27 after defeat of a tax levy.

1943: Youngstown City Council approves selling $375,000 in bonds to finance construction of a new garbage incinerator and to reopen Marshall Street Bridge.

The recount of ballots cast in the Youngstown mayoral race will begin at the board of elections office. The recount begins with Democrat Ralph O’Neill, the winner by six votes over Republican Arthur Williams.