YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 11

Today is Sunday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2018. There are 50 days left in the year.

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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.”

1831: Former slave Nat Turner, who’d led a violent insurrection, is executed in Jerusalem, Va.

1909: President William Howard Taft accepts the recommendation of a joint Army-Navy board that Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands be made the principal U.S. naval station in the Pacific.

1918: Fighting in World War I ends as the Allies and Germany sign an armistice in the Forest of Compiegne.

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 of Ohio.

1942: During World War II, Germany completes its occupation of France.

1960: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem survives a coup attempt by army rebels. (However, he was overthrown and killed in 1963.)

1966: Gemini 12 blasts off on a four-day mission with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard; it is the 10th and final flight of NASA’s Gemini program.

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.

1987: After the failure of two Supreme Court nominations, President Ronald Reagan announces his choice of Judge Anthony M. Kennedy, who would go on to win confirmation.

1998: President Bill Clinton orders warships, planes and troops to the Persian Gulf as he lays out his case for a possible attack on Iraq. Iraq, meanwhile, shows no sign of backing down from its refusal to deal with U.N. weapons inspectors.

2008: President George W. Bush marks his last Veterans Day as president at a New York pier, speaking to a crowd of thousands gathered for the rededication of the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

San Francisco’s Tim Lincecum wins the National League Cy Young Award

2013: Iran and the United States blame each other for the failure to reach agreement on a deal to limit Iran’s uranium enrichment in exchange for an easing of Western sanctions.

Bowing to pressure from Jewish groups and art experts, the German government makes public details of paintings in a recovered trove of 1,400 pieces of art that might have been stolen by Nazis and says it will put together a task force to speed identification.

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1993: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says some East Side residents will be asked to help pick the site for the state’s proposed super-maximum security prison.

Ungaro proposes that a new main fire station be built on the near North Side and that the police department be moved from City Hall to renovated quarters in the vacated central fire station.

Wilcom Cellular expands its retail presence in the Mahoning Valley with a new Boardman store and kiosks at Southern Park and Eastwood malls.

1978: Consistently profitable Sharon Steel Corp. racks up “significant improvements” in sales and net earnings. In the third quarter, the company reported earnings of $13.3 million or $1.78 a share on sales of $124.6 million.

Federal officials say that Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties are chosen for a pilot plan to chart possibly hazardous mine shafts in the state because of work already done by Youngstown State University geology professor Ann Harris.

The Rev. Harry A. Hull, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Hubbard from 1963 to 1969, will speak at the service commemorating the 175th anniversary of the church.

1968: Rose Mary Woods, formerly of Sebring, Ohio, will be President Richard Nixon’s executive secretary in the White House. She has been Nixon’s secretary for years.

Three Trumbull County families get an early Christmas gift of $423 for no other reason than their last name, Maynard. A Cleveland business man provided in his will for the disbursements to 50 random families with that surname.

About 60 striking members of Local 1617, United Steelworkers of America, block the entrance to strike-bound General Fireproofing Co., keeping out supervisory and office personnel.

1943: Robert I. Pownall of Sharon, Pa., is one of 50 army privates awarded the Legion of Merit for staking their health in the New Guinea jungles “beyond the call of duty” by voluntarily exposing themselves to malaria infection for six weeks without preventative treatment.

City and county governments and the board of education will appoint official representatives to a Greater Youngstown Post War Plan Committee, which will act as a clearing house for all public improvement projects.

Lt. James Billet of Youngs-town, reported missing in action Oct. 26, is being held prisoner by the Germans. He was a navigator on a Flying Fortress in the Schweinfurt raid.