YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 10

Today is Friday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2017. There are 51 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1871: Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.

1917: Forty-one suffragists are arrested for picketing in front of the White House.

1951: Customer-dialed long-distance telephone service begins as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J., calls Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, Calif., without operator assistance.

1969: The children’s educational program “Sesame Street” debuts on National Educational Television (later PBS).

1982: The newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to its first visitors in Washington, D.C., three days before its dedication.

2004: Word reaches the United States of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at age 75.

2007: A stagehands strike shuts down most Broadway shows. Curtains rise again 19 days later.

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1992: The ribbon is cut on the $47 million Trumbull County Correctional Institution in Warren, Ohio’s 23rd prison, which is expected to house 1,000 prisoners in short order.

A petition containing about 80 signatures is presented to the Joseph Badger Board of Education, asking the board to address problems associated with the Hartford Apple Festival’s proximity to Hartford Elementary School. They say the festival’s rides and booths are a distraction during school hours.

Warner Cable Youngstown announces a cut in the charge for basic 12 channels from $13.95 to $9.95 and an increase form $19.95 to $20.95 for the package that provides all channels except the premium channels.

1977: More than 400 people apply on the first day for 100 jobs at the new Mercer Area Prison. An equal number is expected on the second day.

Benada Aluminum Co. of Girard announces a $1.5 million expansion program, which will include a new made-in-Japan extrusion press.

U.S. Sen. Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., accuses the administration of President Jimmy Carter of sacrificing American steelworkers and American industry to gain a favorable international trade and tariff agreement.

1967: Three Liberty Township police officers accuse Township Trustee James Hagan of misuse of authority by driving police cruisers, issuing radar citations and carrying a concealed handgun.

More than half the staff of the Youngstown State University’s newspaper, The Jambar, resign in protest over the dismissal of Benjamin M. Hayek Jr. as editor by Dr. Robert R. Hare, the paper’s faculty adviser, following a disagreement over whether an article about the philosophy department should be published.

The Rev. David Lyons, a prominent Jesuit “hawk,” tells 450 people at Cardinal Mooney High School that Christians have a moral duty to oppose Communism and to support the war in Vietnam.

1942: Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.’s McDonald Works is the first of the Youngstown district’s giant steel mills to put women on the line, with 23 of them working in the hoop shop.

Youngstown City Council establishes a 50-cent-per-month charge for collecting residential garbage and higher fees for commercial and industrial waste.

Three local apprentice seamen are home from Great Lakes Naval Training Center and will be the honor guests at a family dinner at Mr. and Mrs. F.C. Planinshek: James Planinshek, James Herdman and Myron Wiles.