Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2003. There are 51 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2003. There are 51 days left in the year. On this date in 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial is opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.
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 said, "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.
November 10, 1978: New Castle City Council authorizes the redevelopment authority to seek an Urban Development Action Grant that could lead to the construction of a multimillion-dollar hotel complex on East Street.
U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy asks the Federal Trade Commission to intervene in the pending merger between Lykes and LTV corporations.
David R. Snyder and William J. Conlin are appointed partners of the Warren accounting firm of Pack, Deislinger & amp; Johnson, where both have served since 1969.
GF Business Equipment Inc. reports a profit improvement for the second consecutive quarter with sales of $36.3 million and a net income of $427,581, or 16 cents a share.
November 10, 1963: Spurred by the technological explosion in American industry, Youngstown district steel mills and other industries are sharply stepping up their interest in higher education to ensure properly trained manpower for the future. Area industry threw heavy support behind the state's $250 million bond issue and many area executives consider passage of the issue a victory for Ohio industrial development.
Long-awaited rains finally arrive in the Mahoning Valley, giving a hint of a break in the severe drought that has severely reduced water levels in the area's reservoirs.
Donald W. Byo and Marlow W. Johnson will be guest conductors for the Trumbull County Music Festival at Cortland's Lakeview High School.
November 10, 1953: Mahoning Probate Judge Clifford Woodside hosts dinner for a busload of airmen from the Youngstown Air Force Base, as the first in a week-long series of luncheons and dinners for men from the air base -- all part of USO Pal Week, which is being organized by Chester Amedia and Mrs. Albert Quaranto.
The Youngstown Board of Education athletic committee rules that East High's 7-0 victory over Rayen Oct. 31 will stand. Rayen's protest claimed that Mike Moraghan's winning touchdown came on an illegal "hideout" play. After viewing movies of the game, the committee found "reasonable doubt as to whether the play was illegal."
A search is underway for a mysterious flying object reported to have hurtled through the skies and plunged into a woods about three miles east of Howland Corners off Route 82.
November 10, 1928: Congressman John G. Cooper of Youngstown, chairman of the special congressional committee investigating federal prisons and the care of federal prisoners, leaves on a 10-day tour of federal institutions. The committee will assemble in Chicago and visit Kansas, Georgia and New England.
All Saturday trading records are broken on the New York Stock Exchange with total sales of 2,788,100 shares. New General Motors shares traded as high as $89.63 and Montgomery Ward soared $23 to a record price of $407.
Ninety-seven aliens are granted citizenship in naturalization court by Judge J.H.C. Lyon.
Youngstown's Chief Probation Officer William A. Cleaver promises drastic action against dealers who sell smutty magazines after 15 to 20 copies are found in the possession of students at various city schools.