YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2014. There are 51 days left in the year.

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1775: The U.S. Marines are organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

1871: Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley finds the Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.

1919: The American Legion opens its first national convention in Minneapolis.

1928: Japanese Emperor Hirohito is enthroned, almost two years after his ascension.

1938: Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program.

Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57.

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1989: As Veteran’s Day approaches, members of American Legion Post 479 on Indianola Avenue agree that veterans of the Korean War have not gotten the proper recognition for their sacrifice.

Several shareholders of Salem Corp. file a federal lawsuit in Pittsburgh accusing Chairman Victor Posner of mismanaging the suburban Pittsburgh company. Posner also controls Sharon Steel Co. and the Arby’s fast food chain.

The Youngstown Area United Way campaign raises $3,521 above its goal of $3.2 million. It’s the seventh consecutive year United Way has exceeded its goal.

1974: Central Park Apartments on East State Street in Niles, developed by Niles Churches for Housing and subsidized by the Federal Housing Administration, is one inspection away from accepting its first tenants.

Msgr. Donald Reagan, who holds a doctorate in musicology and theory, is composing a Com- munion meditation for the Centennial Mass of Thanksgiving for the Ursuline Sisters. Reagan, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in Warren, was an Ursuline student at St. Columba Elementary School and, decades later, a principal of Ursuline High School.

YSU rallies 14 points in the final period to turn back Central State, 25-14, and give the Penguins their seventh win in eight games.

1964: Eleanor Holm, 1920s swimming star and the only woman yet named to three U.S. Olympic teams, tells recent interviewers that current champions are overtraining and burning themselves out.

1939: William A. Carney, 34, 3rd Ward Youngstown councilman, dies in Warren City Hospital of injuries received in an automobileaccident on Route 422 between McKinley Heights and Eckert’s Corners.

Youngstown may get a third important air route — Pennsylvania-Central Airlines mainline between Detroit, Washington and Norfolk — soon after the city’s new $2.8 million municipal airport is finished.

Thirteen paintings done over a period of 10 years by Dorothy Dennison are featured in a one-woman show at the Butler Institute of American Art. One is a portrait of Mrs. Orrin Haulman of 227 Crandall Ave.