YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Nov. 15, the 319th day of 2014. There are 46 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1777: The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike sights the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.

1864: During the Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman begin their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta, with the goal of crippling the region’s military and economic resources; the campaign ends with the capture of Savannah on Dec. 21.

1889: Brazil is proclaimed a republic as its emperor, Dom Pedro II, is overthrown.

1939: President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1942: The naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends during World War II with a decisive U.S. victory over Japanese forces.

1954: Actor-director Lionel Barrymore, 76, dies in Van Nuys, Calif.

1958: Actor Tyrone Power, 44, dies in Madrid, Spain, while filming “Solomon and Sheba.” (Power’s part was recast with Yul Brynner.)

1959: Four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kan., are found murdered in their home.

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1989: The Northside Citizens Coalition wants a historical commission created to monitor renovations and new construction in the historical Crandall Park and Fifth Avenue areas.

Youngstown police reinstate identification wrist bands for prisoners in the wake of an escape in which a prisoner walked free after posing as another inmate who had posted bond.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro is downplaying reports that he fired Daniel Gilboy as an assistant city law director because Gilboy was not seen as loyal to the administration.

1974: Vandals break into a Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department cruiser parked on Hartzell Avenue, smash a $1,200 radio and steal a .38-caliber pistol and two boxes of shells.

FBI agents seize $35,000 in cash, two guns and gambling equipment in recent raids on 10 locations in the Niles-Youngstown area.

Dr. Janet E. Del Bene of Girard, associate professor of chemistry at Youngstown State University, is one of 16 university faculty members across the nation to be awarded a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Grant of $20,000.

1964: First prize for Youngstown University’s Homecoming parade float goes to Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Theta Xi Fraternity’s float, “Steam to Victory,” burned to its frame two days before the parade, but was rebuilt and finished second.

President Johnson and two Cabinet members meet to discuss ways to provide a plan for hospital care for the elderly. They hope to tie it into the Social Security program.

1939: Earl Lenhart, 41, of 756 Winona Ave., and Robert Longmore of 2324 Hillman St., are killed when the truck Lenhart was driving burst into flames after colliding with another truck in Route 18 near North Jackson.

Youngstown City Engineer Albert R. Haenny warns that the city’s $5 million PWA improvement program would be imperiled if there are further delays.