YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2015. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., 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.

1918: Fighting in World War I comes to an end 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.

1965:Rhodesia proclaims its independence from Britain.

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.

2005: President George W. Bush strongly rebukes congressional critics of his Iraq war policy, accusing them of being “deeply irresponsible.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a surprise visit to Iraq, presses for unity among the country’s religious factions.

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1990: Everflow Eastern, which has drilled 55 natural-gas wells in Boardman Township, has moved into the city of Youngstown, drilling nine wells and having plans for at least 16 more.

Trumbull County is banking on a $1.3 million King Graves road interceptor-sewer project to get development around the airport in Vienna Township moving.

Youngstown State University’s 13-0 win over Towson State gives Coach Jim Tressel’s Penguins a 10-0 record, the best start in the school’s 50 seasons of football.

1975: The Ohio State Controlling Board refuses to grant a request from Youngstown State University for $61,523 in emergency funds for repairs to flood damage to Tod Hall but did release $900,000 for additions at the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School.

Girard City Council votes 5-2 to combine the jobs of service director and safety director into the new position of director of public services.

An oil slick, two empty lifeboats and debris are spotted in Lake Superior near where the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald was believed sunk in a storm with 29 crewmen aboard.

1965: Community leaders working to establish Columbiana County Community College examine the proposed site of the school on state Route 164 five miles north of Lisbon. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Thomas donated the 40-acre site.

Atty. John Weed Powers succeeds Walter Paulo as volunteer chapter chairman of the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The Mahoning County Medical Society sponsors a community health symposium to discuss four serious problems: facility shortages, high costs, maintaining standards for medical workers and coping with government interference.

1940: Bob Dove of Woodford Avenue, Youngstown, who caught a 32-yard pass and made the first touchdown for Notre Dame in its game with Navy, got to visit with his family when the team’s train made a brief stop in Youngstown while returning to South Bend.

Dr. Arthur Compton, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927, will be the first in a series of prominent speakers brought to town by the Youngstown Executive Club.

A Vindicator editorial memorializes former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who died even as German bombers flew over London, as a victim of the times who has been unfairly criticized for his honest attempts to avoid war.