This Week In Toledo History

November 10
1925 - The first victim of the so-called "Toledo Slugger" is attacked, but Mrs. Frank Hall of Putnam Street manages to survive.
1972 - Jim Ubelhart, long time veteran newscaster on WSPD Radio announces his retirement at the end of the year.
1975 - The giant ore freighter, “Edmund Fitzgerald” breaks up and sinks in a monster storm on Lake Superior. Twenty-nine sailors are lost, many from the Toledo area, including the Captain, Ernest McSorley.
2001 - Killer storms strike Northwest Ohio. Five tornadoes touch down, doing damage to numerous cities and killing five people from Van Wert to Republic, Ohio.

November 11
1918 - Germany surrenders. World War I is over. Toledoans jam the streets by the thousands for celebrations, flag raisings, and dances.
1932 - Notorious Toledo pickpocket Danny ”The Dip” Cherry is arrested in New York City while aboard an ocean liner. He is suspected of planning to dip his hands in the pockets of wealthy passengers. One Toledo policeman says “Danny had his hands in more pockets than a dry cleaner.”
1934 - Gangster Thomas, "Yonnie" Lacavoli begins serving his prison term at the Ohio State Pen for murder of bootlegger Jackie Kennedy and others.
1991 - Ohio's “Merci" train car that was gift from France is re-dedicated at Camp Perry. It is one of 50 French boxcars filled with gifts for America's generosity to the French people.

November 12
1877 - Reported in Toledo papers that Charles Clark of Genoa area was killed by a train at Long’s Crossing near Millbury when his horse and wagon were hit as he tried crossing the tracks after drinking all day in Genoa’s saloons.
1906 - Red McQuire, the accused killer of Perrysburg Marshal Frank Thornton escapes from the Wood County Jail with two other inmates. He surrenders several years later.
1907 - Hercules nitroglycerin plant in Bradner explodes. Two men are killed. Much of the village is leveled by blast.
1952 - Mobster from Toledo John “Crane Neck” Nugent to be declared “dead” after missing for 22 years. Nugent was suspected in the 1928 machine gun slaying of Toledo Patrolman George Zientara on Upton Avenue.

November 13
1884 - A giant explosion rips apart the Rummel nitro-glycerin plant in South Toledo. The blast was so powerful that windows and walls of buildings are cracked for miles around.
1894 - The new Lamson’s department store opens at Huron and Jefferson.
1940 - First Toledo-made Willys Jeep is field tested at Camp Holabird, Maryland.
1944 - Agents raid the gambling den, El Rancho Club on Woodville Road near Millbury. It had been open only four days.
1947 - The Toledo Sports Arena first opens its doors for fans. They remain open for nearly 60 years, but closed in 2007 to make way for the development of that area along the riverfront.
1962 - Prominent UAW boss in Toledo, Richard Gosser is arrested by Federal agents and charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS. He is charged along with an aide in the area numbers rackets.

November 14
1901 - A runaway horse on Summit St. crashes into a horse and buggy throwing that horse through a plate glass window of Harry Bower's saloon. The runaway horse was finally brought to a stop by a brave Toledo policeman, Emmert Cairl, who grabbed the frightened animal by the bit and held on for dear life.
1925-Toledo residents mourn the passing of the city's most generous and prominent citizen. Glassmaker, industrialist and art benefactor, Edward Drummond Libbey dies of pneumonia at age 71.
1953 - Toledo song writer Joe Murphy of the Ice House Quarter dies at age of 86. Murphy wrote the popular "We're Strong For Toledo" in 1909.
1972 - Northeast gale force winds force Lake Erie waters into neighborhoods of Point Place, causing major flooding in the area. Hundreds of homes are flooded out.

November 15
1902 - Toledo police tell "house of ill-fame” owners to oust the "colored" musicians that play piano in their "resorts". Chief Knapp says the Tenderloin joints know they must get rid of these "colored professors" who hang out and play music in the prostitution houses.
1932 - Major snowstorm of 12 to 15 inches hits area. Worst November storm on record.
1934 - A gang of bandits seize the town of Cygnet in a plan to rob the local bank. Phones lines in the town are cut. Residents are shot at and blasts of nitro are used as bandits try to break into the local bank safe. Sheriff deputies arrive and the bandits escape without any money.

November 16
1916 - Voice actor Dawes Butler is born in Toledo. He becomes Hollywood icon in cartoon production as the voice of Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and Yogi Bear.
1920 - Mary Shaw is the city of Toledo’s first policewoman and warns that dancing cheek-to-cheek or flirting or doing the "toddle" will be outlawed in Toledo.
1925 - Mrs. Wilma Headley attacked by "Toledo Slugger" as she was walking near 20th Street and Jefferson Avenue.
1947 - The last Nebraska Avenue Trolley ends operations forever.