Today is Monday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2002. There are 50 days left in the year. This is

Today is Monday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2002. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the United States, Remembrance Day in Canada. On this date in 1918, fighting in WWI comes to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.
In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, sign a compact calling for a "body politick." In 1831, former slave Nat Turner, who'd led a violent insurrection, is executed in Jerusalem, Va. In 1889, Washington becomes the 42nd state. In 1921, President Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1938, Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio. In 1942, during WWII, Germany completes its occupation of France. In 1965, Rhodesia proclaims its independence from Britain. In 1966, Gemini 12 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. aboard. In 1972, the U.S. Army turns over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1981, stuntman Dan Goodwin scales the outside of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago in nearly six hours.
November 11, 1977: John Davis, 63, and his wife, Mary, 61, are found dead in their burning North Lima home, the apparent victims of murder, robbery and arson.
The Most Rev. James W. Malone, bishop of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese, emerges as one of the top four contenders to become the new head of the Roman Catholic Church of the United States.
A gas explosion thunders through a North Side Home, blowing out windows and tearing off the front and back porches. The family dog, tethered to a gas line, apparently ruptured the pipe by pulling on it, eventually causing the explosion.
Harold H. Ohl, 73, retired retail advertising manager of the Vindicator who was re-elected to the Mahoning County Board of Education only days earlier, dies in North Side Hospital of a heart attack.
November 11, 1962: Youngstown school principals and central administration are told to make immediate recommendations to Superintendent Harry J. Wannamaker to meet the cuts necessary following the failure of a 2.8 mill levy. Board President Warren P. Williams says prudence requires that the district live within its income and maintain a balance at the end of the year.
One of Youngstown's greatest golfers, Christy W. Deibel, never hit a golf ball until he was 33 years old. At the age of 88, he never fails to get around an 18-hole course in no more strokes than his age, and usually fewer. He has won more than 125 trophies, including the 1935 United States senior championship.
A warm-hearted grandmother, Mrs. Clyde Greenfield of Emma St., Niles, who has given 50 pints of blood to help others over 17 years, has been forced to end her contributions for health reasons. She recalls that she was "really frightened" the first time she contributed.
November 11, 1952: An airplane landing gear found on the shore of Lake Erie near North Madison is identified as part of a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza, the same type of plane that disappeared Nov. 4, 1950, with two Youngstown couples aboard. C. Richard and Annabelle Johnson and Stanley and Sharon Dunbar were on their way to the Notre Dame-Army football game at Cleveland Stadium when they disappeared.
Melvin Frank, a Niles McKinley High School mathematics teacher, demonstrates a home-to-school communication system that allows Niles homebound students to hear what's going on in the classroom and to respond to inquiries from the teacher.
November 11, 1927: Veterans of three of the nation's great wars -- the World War, the Spanish American War and the Civil War -- lead Youngstown's observance of the ninth anniversary of the Armistice. Flags line Market Street, Youngstown's "Road of Remembrance."
Book burning in Chicago that is being encouraged by the mayor "is an indication of the fact that by throwing out Greek and sneering a Latin we are narrowing our perspective until we have lost our sense of values," says Professor W.T. Semple of Cincinnati, speaking in Cleveland on the need to restore the classics to high schools.