Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 315th day of 2008. There are 51 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 315th day of 2008. There are 51 days left in the year. On this date in 1775, the U.S. Marines are organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa. In 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested for picketing in front of the White House. In 1919, the American Legion opens its first national convention, in Minneapolis. In 1938, Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program, which airs on Thursdays. In 1938, Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk dies in Istanbul at age 57. In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, is dedicated by President Eisenhower in Arlington, Va. In 1969, the children’s educational program “Sesame Street” makes its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS). In 1975, the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 vanish during a storm in Lake Superior. In 1982, Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev dies at age 75.

November 10, 1983: More than 200 law enforcement officers from Ohio and Pennsylvania form an honor guard at the funeral of Poland Township Patrolman Richard E. Becker at Christ Presbyterian Church.

Under a plan agreed upon by the Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority, the General Motors assembly plant in Lordstown would be come a free trade subzone, which would save GM $2 million a year in import duties on engines that are being imported for some Sunbird models from Brazil.

Dr. Lucille G. Ford, vice president of Ashland County, keynote speaker at the Warren Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner, says the need for “morality” in our economic system is vital to remaining a free nation.

November 10, 1968: An ecumenical vacation church school is being planned for various parts of Youngstown to run from Dec. 2 to Dec. 20, while Youngstown public schools are closed for lack of operating funds.

Merger talks involving Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., the rise of conglomerates and labor troubles are combining to hasten the district’s transformation into a remote-controlled area with relatively few top-level managers remaining in Youngstown.

The Ohio Highway Department is planning a mid-December opening of the huge Interstate 80-state Route 11 interchange in Austintown.

November 10, 1958: The Youngstown Women’s City Club marks its 30th anniversary with a reception at the elegant clubhouse at 505 Wick Avenue.

Mrs. Mary Ann Barto, 102, one of Youngstown’s oldest residents and one of the first lay teachers in a Youngstown parochial school, dies at her home on W. Warren Avenue.

The Rev. Glenn Holdbrook, pastor of St. Columba Cathedral, sings the first Mass, a high Mass, at the new St. Columba Cathedral. Bishop Emmet Walsh was at his home, recuperating from surgery.

November 10, 1933: Youngstown Mayor Mark Moore notifies the manager of the Paramount Theater that plans for a midnight Saturday show be cancelled because such a show would violate a gentleman’s agreement of long standing with area churches and would arguably be a violation of state blue laws.

The struggles of those who built Trinity M.E. Church from its charter membership of six to a church with 2,800 congregants is recounted during a 50th anniversary dinner attended by 900 people.

Appraisal of the estate of James A. Campbell shows real estate holdings of $148,906 and stocks of $220,000. Personal goods were valued at $12,093, with the most expensive single item being a painting, “Portrait of a Gentleman” by Sir Joshua Reynolds, valued at $700.