Years Ago

Today is Friday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2011. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in Canada.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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

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.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Austintown Township parks will be open for part of the winter following voter approval of the .8-mill parks levy.

About 150 employees walk off the job in a labor dispute at the Weatherbee Coats Inc. plant at 461 E. Federal Street. Joseph Hardy, Weatherbee chairman, says he was surprised by the walkout.

1971: The Joseph Horne Co., a major Pittsburgh department store, will open a branch in a 130,000 square foot addition at Southern Park Mall.

1961: Two white-hooded bandits armed with a submachine gun and sawed-off shotgun terrorize 10 employees and customers at the First State Bank in North Lima and escape with $20,000.

Some 300 members of the Italian-American War Veterans and its auxiliary honor National Commander Albert Masi of Campbell and the national auxiliary president, Mrs. Rose Rossi of Struthers, at a testimonial dinner at Hotel Pick-Ohio.

1936: A truck driver and manager of a the Valley Coal & Coke Co. are fined $25 by Squire Joe Repasky of Campbell after pleading guilty to delivering and selling coal at short weight. The Better Business Bureau and Chamber of Commerce investigated.