YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 19

Today is Monday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2018. There are 42 days left in the year.

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On this date:

1831: The 20th president of the U.S., James Garfield, is born in Orange Township, Ohio.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln dedicates a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

1919: The Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.

1959: Ford Motor Co. announces it is halting production of the unpopular Edsel.

1969: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make the second manned landing on the moon.

1990: Pop duo Milli Vanilli is stripped of its Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the “Girl You Know It’s True” album.

2007: Amazon.com released its first Kindle e-book reader.

2008: Al-Qaida’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri slurs Barack Obama as a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new web message intended to dent the president-elect’s popularity among Arabs and Muslims.

2017: Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader behind the gruesome murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles in 1969, dies in a California hospital at age 83 after nearly a half-century in prison.

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1993: Customers of the Shenango Valley Water Co. say it is unfair of the company to shift to their bills the losses the company suffered from the closing of Sharon Steel Corp. Shenango Water is seeking a 14 percent rate increase.

Niles Postmaster Greg Marsteller says a 23-year tradition will continue with Niles banks selling holiday postage stamps. The stamps will be available at Home Federal, Security Dollar, National City Bank and the Reactive Metals Credit Union.

The Youngstown Board of Education will ask City Council to enact a daytime curfew as a response to truancy. A teacher who attended the meeting said that on a recent day, 433 students were absent from The Rayen School.

1978: A large number of truck drivers walk out of a meeting in Youngstown, indicating support may be flagging for a nine-day strike by the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers.

A report by the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus says that the price of coal from mines owned by electric utilities may be 63.5 percent higher than coal from independently owned mines.

Fire destroys a barn behind Harding High School in Warren that stood on the site of the old Trumbull County Fairgrounds. It was used by the school district for storage.

1968: A new truck assembly plant that will cost $50 million and employ 1,800 workers will be built by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors adjacent to the existing Lordstown assembly plant.

The Mahoning County Welfare Department will seek $924,268 from the county’s general fund during a 1969 budget hearing with county commissioners. The county’s share was $344,253 in 1968.

The Youngstown Board of Education says schools will be closed Nov. 27 for the balance of the calendar year because of a lack of funds, and classes will run until June 23, 1969, to make up lost days. The Youngstown Diocese asks the city school district to continue busing parochial school students when public schools are closed.

1943: Lachlan Macleay, president of the Mississippi Valley Association of St. Louis, visits Youngstown and predicts that the “Mahoning River ... looks pretty dirty, pretty narrow and unimportant, but some day will be one of America’s busiest rivers.”

Mary Etta Lacey, 80, and her daughter, Grace Crumpler, 51, are rushed to St. Elizabeth Hospital after neighbors found them unconscious on the floor, apparently victims of food poisoning.