Today is Tuesday, Nov. 11, the 316th day of 2008. There are 50 days left in the year. This is

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 11, the 316th day of 2008. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., 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 1889, Washington becomes the 42nd state. In 1918, the Second Polish Republic declares its independence. In 1921, the remains of an unidentified American service member are interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony presided over by President Harding. In 1966, Gemini 12 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard. In 1968, the Republic of Maldvies is declared. In 1983, President Reagan becomes the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan’s national legislature. In 1988, police in Sacramento, Calif., find the first of seven bodies buried on the grounds of a boardinghouse. Landlady Dorothea Puente is later charged in the deaths of nine people; she is convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison.

November 11, 1983: Marine Cpl. Edward A. Johnson is buried with full military honors in Struthers five days before his tour of duty in Lebanon was to have ended.

A three-month undercover gambling investigation in Farrell results in the arrest of six people.

The organs from Henry E. Perdue, who shot himself a day after gunning down a Poland Township policeman, have been transplanted into four people who otherwise faced death. His heart, liver and kidneys were transplanted to patients in four hospitals.

November 11, 1968: ROTC Cadet Carl J. Kotheimer, 21, of Boardman, a student at Ohio State University, is named cadet major general, making him the top ROTC cadet in the nation.

President-elect Richard M. Nixon announces the first appointment of his administration, Sebring native Rose Mary Woods as his executive secretary.

A group representing all four arms of the services holds a ceremony in Central Square at 11 a.m. to mark the 60th anniversary of Armistice Day.

November 11, 1958: Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service and one of the nation’s most prominent veterans, will speak at a U.S. Savings Bond rally at the Hotel Pick-Ohio. Some 700 are expected to attend.

Four unvented gas heaters are found in rooming houses on Lincoln Avenue after Youngstown inspectors begin a citywide check for illegal heating units.

Laquetta Foster, Youngstown’s “oxygen girl,” whose need for oxygen prompted generosity from people throughout the nation, dies at the age of 13, after three years of battling lung failure.

November 11, 1933: After 32 years service, begun as a laborer when the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. was but a year old, has won for Ray M. Welch the position of assistant to the president of the company

Mayor Mark M. Moore issues a proclamation urging citizens of Youngstown to enroll during the annual roll call of the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Commemorating the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice at 11 a.m., buglers supplied to the American Legion from among Boy Scouts and veteran organizations sound their call in the streets and stores throughout downtown Youngstown. More than 100 high school girls sell poppies for American Legion Post 15 in Youngstown.

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