Today is Saturday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2018. There are 51 days left in the year.

Today is Saturday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2018. There are 51 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1775: The U.S. Marines are organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

1871: Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who has 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.

1938: Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program.

1954: The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, is dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Va.

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,

2017: Facing allegations of sexual misconduct, comedian Louis C.K. says the harassment claims by five women detailed in a New York Times report “are true,” and he expresses remorse for using his influence “irresponsibly.”

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1993: William Carter, executive director of the Youngstown Area Development Corp., says contractors working on the Mahoning County jail appear to be hiring the required number of minority workers.

Two days after being released by the Cleveland Browns, Boardman’s Bernie Kosar signs with the defending Super Bowl champions, the Dallas Cowboys.

About 7,000 workers at Packard Electric in Warren could strike if the International Union of Electrical Workers does not report progress in national contract negotiations.

1978: U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., asks the Federal Trade Commission to intervene in the pending merger between Lykes and LTV corporations.

Sidney and Laura Bean of 2050 Summer St., Youngstown, celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary and Mr. Bean’s 93rd birthday on the same day.

1968: An ecumenical vacation church school will be held Dec. 2-20 in various parts of Youngstown to aid the 27,000 city schools pupils who will have no public school classes to go to after failure of a 12-mill levy necessitates the closing of schools Nov. 27 for the remainder of the calendar year.

Major Carl Nunziato, a double amputee from injuries sustained in Vietnam, will be the parade marshal for Youngstown’s Veterans Day Parade, which will feature more than 100 units to mark the 50th anniversary of the World War I Armistice.

The State Highway Department sets its sights on a mid-December opening of the huge Interstate 80-state Route 11 interchange in Austintown.

Cardinal Mooney High School’s individual events speech team is the sweepstakes winner at the Wadsworth Invitational Speech Contest, earning 73 points, 24 more than its nearest competitor, Toledo Whitmar.

1943: A warning to mothers who neglect their children in search of “big money” in war plants is issued by Judge Henry Beckenbach, who sentenced one woman to six months in jail for neglecting her nine children.

A truck laden with 600 cases of rum collides with a passenger car and overturns.