This Day in History

November 15, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

This Day in History

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1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike sights the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.

1935: The Commonwealth of the Philippines is established as its new president, Manuel L. Quezon, takes office.

1966: The flight of Gemini 12 ends successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splash down safely in the Atlantic.

1969: A quarter of a million protesters stage a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.

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1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, proposed legislation that would require every public school in the nation to provide a “substance abuse” course each year in grades 4 through 12.

The Volkswagen assembly plant at New Stanton, Pa., designed to produce 500,000 cars a year finally produces its millionth vehicle, seven years after opening.

1970: Sharon Steel Corp. announces it will operate three open hearths, two blast furnaces and two electric furnaces, with 5,000 hourly workers on the job, quelling rumors of a shutdown.

1960: A dynamite bomb rips a hole in the back of the Crown Cigar Store in Girard, a suspected gambling spot. It is the Youngstown district’s 70th bombing since 1951.

A 17-year-old Austintown youth is in fair condition in South Side Hospital with buckshot wounds after being shot by a game warden at Meander Reservoir. The warden said he fired after the youth refused to bring his boat to shore and raised a gun toward the warden.

1935: Mayor Mark E. Moore urges the city to support the mayor-elect, Lionel Evens, saying, “I don’t think Lionel knew what he was getting into, or he would not have run for the job.”

A group of “New Deal” Democrats, including councilman Michael J. Kirwan and mayoral runner-up William Spagnola, plan to challenge A.W. Craver for leadership of the Mahoning County Democratic Party