YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 20
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2018. There are 41 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1789: New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1910: The Mexican Revolution of 1910 has its beginnings under the Plan of San Luis Potosi issued by Francisco I. Madero.
1945: Twenty-two former Nazi officials go on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
1947: Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, marries Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.
1969: The Nixon administration announces a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout.
1976: The boxing drama “Rocky,” starring Sylvester Stallone, premieres in New York.
1985: The first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, is officially released.
2003: Michael Jackson is booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (Jackson was later acquitted at trial.)
2017: President Donald Trump announces that he is designating North Korea, which he called a “murderous regime,” as a state sponsor of terror.
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1993: A compact car that will be branded as both a Chevrolet and a Toyota will be built either at the Lansing plant or the Lordstown plant.
Two students, one a sixth- grader and one a seventh-grader, found with a gun at Boardman Middle School are arrested on juvenile charges. The unloaded pistol was owned by the grandmother of one of the students, and they brought it to school to show to friends.
About 80 workers at the Sealy Stearns and Foster Upholstery Furniture Co. in Columbiana get a short reprieve. Instead of the plant’s immediate closing, work won’t be shifted to a Mississippi plant until late December.
1978: Thomas A. Cleary Jr., 52, who rose from steel mill laborer to the No. 3 spot at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., will take early retirement at the end of the year to pursue other business interests.
Bob Gibson, a Woodrow Wilson star and quarterback at Youngstown College, is fired as offensive coordinator of the New York Giants after quarterback Joe Pisarcik muffs a handoff to Larry Csonka with 26 seconds, leading to a Philadelphia touchdown and a 19-17 win.
A fight outside the El Dorosa Tavern on Youngstown-Pittsburgh Road in Poland Township ends in the stabbing death of Duane Linhart Jr., 20, of New Middletown.
1968: Two Sharon, Pa., boys and four girls are made orphans when their father, William H. Johnston, 35, is killed in a traffic accident two weeks after their mother died.
Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt will take under consideration the legal question of whether Youngstown’s two deputy police chiefs are properly appointed by the mayor or whether the appointment should come through civil service exams.
The Youngstown Bureau of Employment Services and Youngstown Education Association will serve as clearinghouses for area employers and the unemployed public school teachers after schools close Nov. 27.
1943: Six students at Villa Maria High School near New Bedford, Pa., present a radio play, “Books are Weapons” on WFMJ during National Catholic Books Week: Mary Battista, Rita Schneider, Patricia and Marianne Bowden, Margaret Anne Barnes and Martha Gross.
Three Youngstown men reported missing after American bombers raided Schweinfurt, Germany, are German prisoners. They are David Kaster, Virgil Summer Jr. and James D. Billet.
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