YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 17

Today is Saturday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2018. There are 44 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1558: Elizabeth I accedes to the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign.

1800: Congress has its first session in the partially completed U.S. Capitol building.

1973: President Richard Nixon tells Associated Press managing editors in Orlando, Fla.: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

1979: Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

2001: The Taliban confirms the death of Osama bin Laden’s military chief, Mohammed Atef, in an airstrike three days earlier.

2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as the 38th governor of California.

2013: Intense thunderstorms and tornadoes sweep across the Midwest, causing extensive damage in several central Illinois communities, killing more than half a dozen people.

2017: Sen. Al Franken apologizes to the woman who had accused him of forcibly kissing her and groping her during a 2006 USO tour; the Minnesota Democrat says he remembers the encounter differently.

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1993: The Youngstown Board of Education will meet to discuss security issues in schools after teachers report knives and guns have been found in schools this fall.

Representatives of the Federal Bureau of Prisons visit Columbiana County and say it is time to get construction of a federal prison at Elkrun on a fast track.

Warren Schools Superintendent Louis Cardamone says the district would consider consolidating with a number of neighboring school districts, mentioning Howland, Lakeview, LaBrae, Lordstown and Weathersfield as potential partners.

1978: Don L. Hanni Jr., chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, accuses Attorney General William Brown of being the mastermind behind a move to oust Hanni from the State Democratic Executive Committee.

Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, leaves a Louisville, Ky., hospital for his Cincinnati home after surgeons replanted his left ring finger, which was severed when he jumped off a truck and his wedding ring snagged.

1968: Stock in the Youngstown Research and Development Co. rises as much as $14 a share, apparently on the strength of tests being conducted by the company on an experimental mill installed at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.’s Stainless & Strip Division on Montgomery Street.

Two Youngstown women, Sandy Byers and Marlene Hall, have husbands in service and are co-editors of a paper, “The Home Front,” which goes regularly to district servicemen overseas.

Bennett Cerf, writer, compiler of anthologies, nationally syndicated columnist and TV panelist, will appear at C.J. Strouss Auditorium for YSU’s university artist lecture series.

1943: Steps are being taken to give the board of governors of Youngstown College greater independence of operation from its founding organization, the YMCA.

Lt. Robert E. Mason and Staff Sgt. Robert I. Vogel of Youngstown and Staff Sgt. Edward J. Weden Jr. of Struthers are among 79 Ohioans decorated for bravery after taking part in spectacular low-level bombing runs on Plosseti oil refineries.