YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2014. There are 52 days left in the year.

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1872: Fire destroys nearly 800 buildings in Boston.

1938: Nazis loot and burn synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that becomes known as “Kristallnacht.”

1953: Welsh author- poet Dylan Thomas dies in New York at age 39.

1965: The great Northeast blackout occurs as a series of power failures lasting up to 131/2 hours leave 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.

1967: A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasts off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.

1970: Former French President Charles de Gaulle dies at age 79.

1976: The U.N. General Assembly approves resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.”

1988: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, dies in Washington at age 75.

1989: Communist East Germany throws open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans dance atop the Berlin Wall.

1999: With fireworks, concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany celebrates the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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1989: The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issues a final operating permit to the controversial Browning-Ferris Industries medical waste incinerator in Warren.

Al Migliorato, 40, a native of Lawrence County, Pa., and a boxer in the Youngstown area, dies while attempting a night parachute jump into a football stadium in Lake Mary, Fla., during homecoming ceremonies. His son was a senior on the high school football team

Construction of Youngs-town’s new steel museum was completed months ago, but the Ohio Historical Society has not yet announced an opening date.

1974: Martin and Sarah Scheuer of Boardman, parents of Sandra, one of the four students killed at Kent State University in 1970, say they are “disappointed and upset” by Federal Judge Frank Battisti’s acquittal of eight former National Guardsmen indicted in the shootings.

Two escaped convicts from Tallahassee, Fla., are charged with attempted aggravated murder of an Ohio highway patrolman after a shootout near Ravenna.

Dr. Richard D. Murray, Youngstown plastic surgeon and student of the seer Nostradamus, tells the Downtown Kiwanis Club that Vice President Nelson Rockefeller will be president of the United States by July. He did not say what would lead to President Gerald Ford being out of office.

1964: U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater is at Hotel Royal Caribbean in Montego Bay, resting and fishing with friends after a strenuous political campaign.

Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey suggests on NBC’s “Sunday” program that a six-week presidential campaign is sufficient given the era’s varied and rapid forms of communication.

1939: Youngstown Mayor Lionel Evans offers Mayor-elect William Spagnola his “sincerest congratulations and deepest sympathies.” He invites Spagnola and his cabinet to sit in on work being done on the 1940 budget.

Congressman Michael J. Kirwan announces that the Works Progress Administration has approved Youngstown’s $434,899 sanitary sewer project, which includes 45 projects.

Station WFMJ will carry its first nationwide program when it joins the National Broadcasting Co. to bring local listeners the American Red Cross campaign opening program.