YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2014. There are 47 days left in the year.

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1851: Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” is first published in the United States.

1889: Inspired by the Jules Verne novel “Around the World in Eighty Days,” New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) sets out to make the trip in less time than the fictional Phileas Fogg. (She completed the journey in 72 days.)

1910: Eugene B. Ely becomes the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss pusher rolls off a sloping platform on the deck of the scout cruiser USS Birmingham off Hampton Roads, Va.

1940: During World War II, German planes destroy most of the English town of Coventry.

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1989: Nick Pitinii, interim superintendent of Warren Schools, says his decision is final that the Warren G. Harding building will be the city’s lone high school, but a group of West Siders vows to fight the closing of Western Reserve.

Boardman’s Dave Dravecky announces his retirement from the San Francisco Giants baseball team after doctors in Cleveland uncover a new lump in his left arm, the same arm from which a cancerous tumor was removed in 1988.

1974: Ten German Shepherds, trained as guard dogs, are in the Mahoning County dog pound after being removed from their quarters on North Meridian Road by the Youngstown Humane Society and Dog Warden Dan Pecchio, who said they were confined to small wire cages and exposed to the elements.

General Motors Corp.’s Vega assembly line at the Lordstown complex will be shut down for two weeks, reflecting a weakening market for small cars.

1964: Mrs. Marcus Kilch, Youngstown, is the new president of the National Council of Catholic Women, an organization of some 10 million members. The announcement is made at a banquet during the 32nd annual convention in Washington, D.C.

1939: About 500 present and former employees of Youngstown will get a “Christmas bonus” when the city pays “back pay” claims that date to the Moore administration, which a court found had cut pay for city workers illegally.

Fullback Steve Belichick of Struthers will be out of the Western Reserve lineup for the game against John Carroll due to a muscle pulled in the Kent State game.