Years Ago

November 11, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2010. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in Canada.

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On this date in:

1620: Forty-one pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, sign a compact calling for a “body politick.”

1831: Former slave Nat Turner, who’d led a violent insurrection, is executed in Jerusalem, Va.

1909: President William Howard Taft accepts the recommendation of a joint Army-Navy board that Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands be made the principal U.S. naval station in the Pacific.

1918: Fighting in World War I comes to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.

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 Warren G. Harding.

1983: President Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. chief executive to address the Diet, Japan’s national legislature.

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1985: Arsene A. Rousseau, an architect who designed the Mahoning County Administration Building, St. Nicholas Church in Campbell and Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church in Youngstown, among other buildings, dies at the age of 81.

Robert L. Loughhead, president of Weirton Steel Co. and former president of Copperweld Steel, says Copperweld is ripe for a leveraged buyout by employees. Weirton is the largest employee-owned company in the nation.

1970: A large piggyback trailer containing television and stereo sets valued at $60,000 is stolen from the B&O freight station at W. Front and Market streets.

Dr. Walter M. Greissinger and Dr. John R. Dahmen, Youngstown health officials, announce a war on Youngstown’s estimated 420,000 rats by eliminating their breeding grounds.

1960: High unemployment sparks interest in civil service jobs, with 199 men applying for cadet fireman exams in Youngstown and 52 for park caretaker.

Mahoning County officials are searching for suitable storage space for the county’s 869 voting machines, some of which are in temporary storage sites.

1935: Warren Mayor G.A. Bjorson joins eight policeman on a raid of the Hollyhock Gardens and seizes four slot machines. Tables obviously designed for gambling were not seized because they were not in use at the time of the raid.