YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 15, the 320th day of 2016. There are 46 days left in the year.

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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; the campaign ends with the capture of Savannah on Dec. 21.

1926: The National Broadcasting Company begins operating its radio network.

1959: Four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kan., are found murdered in their home. (Ex-convicts Richard Hickock and Perry Smith are later convicted and hanged.)

1966: The flight of Gemini 12, the final mission of the Gemini program, ends successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splash down safely in the Atlantic after spending four days in orbit.

2006: O.J. Simpson causes an uproar with plans for a TV interview and book titled “If I Did It.”

2011: Hundreds of police in riot gear raid the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City in the pre-dawn darkness, evicting hundreds of protesters and then demolishing the tent city.

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1991: An early morning argument between two groups of girls on Breaden Street in Youngstown leaves Rolana Donaldson, 17, dead of a gunshot wound of the head and two other girls wounded.

“Free Stamp,” a 28-foot by 48-foot replica of a stamp, is dedicated in Willard Park next to Cleveland City Hall with New York artists Claus Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in attendance.

Detective William Blanchard, president of the Youngstown Fraternal Order of Police, says the city’s plan for one-man cruiser patrols will endanger police officers.

1976: The Rev. Homer J.R. Elford, 64, one of the most highly respected religious leaders in the Mahoning Valley and senior minister at Trinity United Methodist Church for 25 years, tells the congregation that he will retire in June.

Youngstown police investigating a report of a burglary in progress capture two 15-year-olds running from Lincoln School at 1415 Charlotte Ave.

For the second time in four years, Cardinal Mooney High School has qualified for the state Class AAA football playoffs and will meet top-ranked Cincinnati Moeller in Dayton.

1966: General Motors announces that it will add a second shift at its Lordstown assembly plant, boosting Chevrolet production and adding 2,000 employees to the workforce.

A $324,000 grant is awarded to Associated Neighborhood Centers to continue programs for 150 out-of-school youths who will work for a year as janitors, secretaries, clerks and nursery-school aides.

Gebhardt Mehl, superintendent of Poland schools, is in fair condition in South Side Hospital after collapsing at his desk.

1941: South High School, defeated only by Woodrow Wilson, drives for city gridiron laurels, scoring eight touchdowns to rout Ursuline 53-0.

Youngstown Councilman Edwin Haseltine surprises members of the McGuffey Society by reciting in rapid succession dozens of verses from the McGuffey readers, which he had used in school more than 75 years earlier.

McKelvey’s downtown has an Eskimo village in its fifth-floor Toyland where children can ride the dog sled with live Eskimo huskies, talk to Tuktu, a real Eskimo boy, and watch the baby bear cubs do tricks.

Playing at the Grand Burlesk in Youngstown: Princess Red Fawn – “She’s glorious, dynamic, sexotic, voluptuous.”