YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2014. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day; Remembrance Day in Canada.

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On this date in:

1620: Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, sign a compact calling for a “body politick.”

1778: British redcoats, Tory rangers and Seneca Indians in central New York kill more than 40 people in the Cherry Valley Massacre.

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

1889: Washington becomes the 42nd state.

1909: President William Howard Taft accepts the recommendation of a joint Army- Navy board that Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands be made the principal U.S. naval station in the Pacific.

1918: Fighting in World War I ends with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.

1921: The remains of an unidentified American service member are interred in a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.

1938: Irish-born cook Mary Mallon, who’d gained notoriety as the disease-carrying “Typhoid Mary” blamed for the deaths of three people, dies on North Brother Island in New York’s East River at age 69 after 23 years of mandatory quarantine.

1942: During World War II, Germany completes its occupation of France.

1966: Gemini 12 blasts off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard.

1972: The U.S. Army turns over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.

1984: The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. — father of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. — dies in Atlanta at age 84.

1992: The Church of England votes to ordain women as priests.

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1989: Hundreds of pink and blue balloons line the driveway to the Howland Township home of Robert and Elonna McKibben as they bring their three daughters and a son home from a Cleveland hospital. One of the McKibben quintuplets was stillborn.

A monument at Sts. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Belle Vista Avenue marking the 1,000th year of Christianity in Ukraine is dedicated by Archbishop Constantine of Chicago.

The Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. clears two critical hurdles in its plan to build a $75 million mall in Kent, but the company faces several others before it can begin construction, officials say.

1974: “Warren — A Filmed History of the 175th Anniversary” will be presented at the Packard Music Hall. The 30-minute film was sponsored by the Warren Founders’ Day Committee as a gift to the city.

Edward Cassinger, 23, of 1785 S. Lincoln Ave., Salem, is electrocuted when his body comes in contact with electric power lines on an Ohio Edison tower south of Salem that he climbed on an impulse.

A 16-year-old Canfield youth, Michael Stanish, is killed and four others are injured when their car runs off Golf Course Drive in Mill Creek Park and strikes two trees. The driver of the car was headed to his Market Street home for a 17th birthday celebration.

1964: Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. Beeghly give American University in Washington, D.C., $500,000 for a new chemistry building in the university’s new Science Center.

Mrs. Jane Weick, former Youngstowner, dies at Union Lake, Mich. She was the leading soloist, teacher and organizer of Youngstown’s musical functions for 50 years.

The area Girl Scouts form a new, larger council to be called the Lake to River Council and including Ashtabula, Warren, Niles and Youngstown.

1939: The 21st anniversary of the armistice ending the World War is celebrated in Youngstown with programs in schools and a parade of more than 5,000 participants which is viewed by 30,000.

Jacqueline Abbey, 18 months, is rushed from Orwell to the bronchoscope clinic of South Side Hospital after a nickel becomes lodged in her esophagus. After it was removed, a doctor asked if she was feeling better, but she demanded to know where her nickel was. The doctor produced it for her, but her parents confiscated it.

High winds rip through the Youngstown area, blowing down the framework of a new house and parts of the new South High School fieldhouse. John Summers, 8, of Alliance is killed by a fallen tree.