Today is Sunday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2002. There are 51 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2002. There are 51 days left in the year. On this date in 1982, Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev dies at age 75.
In 1775, the U.S. Marines are organized under authority of the Continental Congress. In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley finds missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa. In 1919, the American Legion holds its first national convention, in Minneapolis. In 1928, Hirohito is enthroned as Emperor of Japan. In 1942, Winston Churchill delivers a speech in London in which he says, "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." In 1951, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J., calls his counterpart in Alameda, Calif. In 1954, the Iwo Jima Memorial is dedicated in Arlington, Va. In 1975, the U.N. General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the world body repeals the resolution in December 1991). In 1975, the ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 vanish during a storm in Lake Superior. In 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial is opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.
November 10, 1977: More than 400 persons apply for 100 jobs at the new Mercer Area Prison and an equal number is expected to inquire on the second day.
Benada Aluminum Products Co. of Girard announces a $1.5 million expansion program , including installation of a new "made-in-Japan" 1,800-ton extrusion press and related equipment.
Saying the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. typifies what's wrong with the steel industry, U.S. Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, R-Pa., accuses the Carter administration of sacrificing American steelworkers and the industry to gain a favorable international trade and tariff agreement.
November 10, 1962: Sharon Steel Corp. reports one of its Stora-Kaldo basic oxygen units in operation at its Roemer Works in Farrell, a history making event in United States steel production. The company installed two 150-ton rotating basic oxygen furnaces, the first Stora-Kaldo units in the Western Hemisphere, at a cost of $17 million.
Mahoning County commissioners are advertising for bids to begin construction as soon as possible on Boardman's $1.9 million sewage treatment plant, a project that will bring $11 million in wages to local laborers under a provision that bidders must hire locally.
The new $7 million Missouri Institute of Psychology at St. Louis State Hospital bears the name of a former New Castle man, Dr. Louis H. Kohler. The graduate of New Castle High School has served as superintendent of the hospital since 1941.
A federal court jury in Pittsburgh holds that cigarette smoking may give you lung cancer, but the cigarette manufacturer can't be legally blamed because a smoker knows the risks. Otto Pritchard, 64, a carpenter, filed suit against Liggett & amp; Myers tobacco Co.
A deep low-pressure area dumps 1.54 inches of rain on the Youngstown district in less than a day. That's more than half the normal rainfall for the month of November.
November 10, 1952: A 47-year-old East Side Youngstown man goes on a rampage after a family feud, wounding his wife and killing two of her sisters, before killing himself. Dead are Edward Porfirio, 47; Mrs. Margaret Soroks, 30, and Mrs. Edith Mitchell, 36.
The approval by Warren citizens of a 5-mill income tax makes possible a long-range civic improvement program to be by an anticipated increase of $1.25 million in annual revenue.
Claude Graber of Braceville Township, former vice president of the Trumbull County Teachers Education Association, is named superintendent of Braceville Schools.
George Jessel, famed comedian of stage, radio and television, speaks at the special gifts division dinner of the annual appeal of the Jewish Federation of Youngstown.
Philip Murray, who rose from an immigrant Scottish mine boy to become head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and one of the world's most powerful labor leaders, dies of a heart attack at 66 in San Francisco. His funeral will be in Pittsburgh. Murray last visited Youngstown June 30.
November 10, 1927: The cost of establishing a new domestic water supply for Youngstown and Niles is estimated at $9.1 million according to a notice filed with city council.
Col. Ralph D. Cole, former congressman from Findlay, Ohio, denounces pacifist organizations before 700 representatives of Kiwanis clubs from all parts of the state who are gathered at the Ohio Hotel in Youngstown for an intercity meeting and Armistice day program.
Jews of Youngstown close one of their most successful campaigns in Eagles Hall where it is announced by Harry Levinson, that 1,259 members have been enrolled in the Jewish Center on Elm St. The goal had been 1,000.
Samuel Lamb, 42, a member of the firm of Lamb Bros. of Sharon, dies when the walls of a sewer in which he was working caved in Sharon. A co-worker, Ray Stangler is rescued from the cave in after 13 minutes of frantic digging and taken to Sharon Hospital. Lamb was found dead when he was extricated after a half hour.