Today is Tuesday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2003. There are 50 days left in the year. This is

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2003. 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 World War I 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 had 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 signs Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio. In 1942, during World War II, Germany completes its occupation of France. 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 1983, President Reagan becomes the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature. In 1992, the Church of England votes to ordain women as priests.
November 11, 1978: Federal officials say that Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties are chosen for a pilot program to chart possibly hazardous mine shafts in the state because of work down by a Youngstown State University professor.
The Ohio Public Interest Campaign launches a statewide initiative to restructure taxes in Ohio similar to California's Proposition 13.
Consistently profitable Sharon Steel Corp. again racked up "significant improvements" in both sales and net earnings for both the third quarter and first nine months, chairman Victor Posner reports.
November 11, 1963: Carbon monoxide fumes from a defective exhaust system on a 1956 car claims the lives of two area men, Zed Ellsworth Scott, 33, of Cortland, and Lawrence Eugene Horner, 37, of Vienna. The car was parked in front of the Miracle Market at 123 N. Main St.
American veterans must rise to meet the challenges of a confusing and frustrating world in order to gain victory in the cold war, Dr. Sidney M. Berkowitz of Rodef Sholom Temple, declares during the Veterans Day ceremony at Temple Square.
FBI agents join Trumbull County enforcement officers in raiding a Liberty Township home and a Niles bookie joint.
November 11, 1953: Four men who confessed to a series of armed robberies in Youngstown are sentenced to 10 to 25 years in the Ohio Penitentiary and an 18-year-old accomplice was given an indeterminate term at the Mansfield Reformatory. Judge David Jenkins could have sentenced them to 150 years to 375 years on the five robbery charges.
A drive to raise $200,000 for a new school building and all-purpose gymnasium-auditorium at St. Stephen Church in Niles is announced by Msgr. Francis J. Lavery, pastor.
Korean War veterans are joined by about 1,000 other war veterans in Youngstown's first peacetime Armistice Day parade in four years. About 20.000 spectators line the downtown streets.
November 11, 1928: Iowa, fighting for the Western Conference championship, defeats Ohio State, hitherto undefeated, 14-10 in the last 60 seconds of play in Columbus.
Plans are underway to light the Cleveland-Youngstown-Pittsburgh air mail route for night flying and to extend the air mail line to Washington and Baltimore.
Thomas McDonald, dean of the steel manufacturers of the Mahoning Valley, for whom U.S. Steel named the town of McDonald, celebrates his 80th birthday at his home on the Canfield Road.