Years Ago

Today is Friday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2014. There are 54 days left in the year.

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1861: Former U.S. President John Tyler is elected to the Confederate House of Representatives (however, Tyler died before he could take his seat).

1914: The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published, presenting itself as “A Journal of Opinion which Seeks to Meet the Challenge of a New Time.”

1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress.

1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution takes place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrow the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

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1989: Four national pro-life organizations want the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal society of Catholic men, to expel U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. and eight other members of Congress that the groups charge are “traitors to the church” on the issue of abortion.

The city of Warren is threatening to shut off water to 72 units in Northwood Condominiums unless the developer annexes the property to the city. Developer Randy Walters had agreed to annexation, but Howland Township challenged it and a common pleas court judge ruled the agreement couldn’t be enforced.

The Catholic Youth Soccer League will build two soccer fields on the site of the swimming pool at Pemberton-Donnell Park, which has been filled in.

1974: A special subcommittee of the Mahoning County Bar Association drops its inquiry into accusations by Youngstown Police Chief Donald Baker and the Fraternal Order of Police that Municipal Judge Frank X. Kryzan made derogatory remarks against the police department in open court and reduced original charges against defendants. Atty. William Houser, president of the bar, said no proof of the accusations was provided.

Ensign Anthony Cantania, 24, of Niles is killed in an airplane crash at Corpus Christi, Texas, while on a pilot training mission.

1964: A dozen policemen, members of the John Birch Society, are under investigation for harassing Santa Ana, Calif., Police Chief Edward J. Allen, formerly of Youngstown. Two have been fired.

Composer-conductor Buddy Cole dies in Hollywood. He accompanied such entertainers as Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Marlene Dietrich and Phil Harris.

1939: Gus Hall, Communist and candidate for president of Youngstown City Council, is branded as “a man whose only flag is Stalins’ red flag of Russia” by mayoral candidate Thomas Barrowman, speaking on radio station WFMJ.

Mill Creek Park has been one of the chief beneficiaries of the Works Projects Administration, with a recently completed stone shelter house and a stone-arch bridge being built near the Lily Pond.