YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2015. There are 47 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

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.)

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

1965: The U.S. Army’s first major military operation of the Vietnam War begins with the start of the five-day Battle of Ia Drang. (The fighting between American troops and North Vietnamese forces ended Nov. 18 with both sides claiming victory.)

1969: Apollo 12 blasts off for the moon.

1970: A chartered Southern Airways DC-9 crashes while trying to land in West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board, including the Marshall University football team and its coaching staff.

1990: It is revealed that pop duo Milli Vanilli (Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan) did none of the singing on their Grammy-winning debut album “Girl You Know It’s True.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: A 17-year-old Austintown boy is charged with involuntary manslaughter and abuse of a corpse in the death of a 15-year-old girl who was purportedly given so much alcohol that she choked to death. Her body was dumped in Meander Reservoir.

Ruth Zimmer Wilkes, sworn in as mayor of Poland after Merle Madrid resigned, says she will concentrate on “bringing council together and moving forward.”

Ed Brannan, a volunteer at the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross, is conducting an earthquake preparedness seminar at the Mahoning Red Cross on West Wood Street. Dr. Iben Browning, who predicted the Oct. 17, 1989, San Francisco Bay earthquake within a day, has predicted a Dec. 3 earthquake along the New Madrid Fault Zone, which would heavily damage the Midwestern U.S.

1975: A gunman wearing a disguise that looked like something from a comic strip takes more than $2,600 from postal employee William McQuiston at the East Side Post Office, 1649 Shehy Street.

Steel operations in the Youngstown district continue at about 67 percent of capacity with six blast furnaces, 14 open hearths, three BOF shops and seven electric furnaces in operation.

1965: A New Castle couple, a former Hubbard resident and an Ashtabula woman are among the survivors from the Yarmouth Castle cruise ship that caught fire and sank near the Bahamas.

Some people are talking about building a multimillion-dollar atom smasher in Ohio, but U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan says the Lake Erie-Ohio River canal would have greater lasting importance.

Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes, on a European trip to attract business to the state, stops at the Lord Mayor’s office at Birmingham, England, and meets James Emch of Hubbard. Emch is an exchange student studying in England.

1940: In the two months since Capt. Charles Richmond was named to head Youngstown’s vice squad, 219 arrests have been made for gambling, prostitution or bootlegging.

Dr. M.J. Brines, an authority on psychology, tells the Youngstown chapter of the American Banking Institute that there can be no peace until people recognize how men like Adolf Hitler use propaganda.