YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 14

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2018. There are 47 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1862: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln gives the go-ahead for Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond; the resulting Battle of Fredericksburg is a disaster for the Union.

1889: Inspired by the Jules Verne novel “Around the World in Eighty Days,” New York World reporter Nellie Bly sets out to make the trip in less time than the fictional Phileas Fogg. (She completed the journey in 72 days.)

1925: The first group exhibition of surrealistic paintings opens at Galerie Pierre in Paris.

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.

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.

1972: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.

2013: Reversing course, President Barack Obama says millions of Americans should be allowed to renew individual coverage plans ticketed for cancellation under the health care law.

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1993: State Rep. Michael Verich of Warren hopes to persuade the Ohio Board of Regents to place his request for $6.8 million in state capital improvement money for Kent State University’s Trumbull Campus.

The Illinois State Redbirds upset top-ranked Youngstown State University, 13-10, as the Penguins fail for the third week in a row to generate much of an offense.

Former employees of Shenango Inc. have received U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval to buy the Sixth Street foundry, but Sharpsville Quality Products still needs to tie up eight loans totaling $4.9 million.

1978: U.S. Steel Corp. will continue operations in the Mahoning Valley as long as they are profitable, says company President David M. Roderick.

Two women, Susan K. Colucci and Wanda I. Cordero, are among nine appointees taking the oath of office as Youngstown police patrolmen.

A 5-mill Liberty School District levy that was reported as having passed on Election Day actually lost based on latest results, says Trumbull County Elections Director Albert Sisk.

1968: The original Mahoning County Courthouse in Canfield, known more recently as the Guide Building, has been sold for $72,500 to the Olde Courthouse Corp., which intends to restore it to its 19th-century condition.

Double tragedy strikes a Youngstown family when former Mahoning County Sheriff Paul Langley and his sister, Jane Chesney, die of heart attacks within two hours. Mrs. Chesney died after learning of her brother’s death.

William Zelch of Farrell, Pa., is shot to death as he stood alongside his car on Route 304, Hubbard Township. He was surveying damage to his car from a rear-end collision when the occupant of that car stepped out and opened fire.

1943: Mahoning County Probate Judge Clifford M. Woodside asks county commissioners for $6,600 to pay for institutional care for the feeble-minded.

Sixteen months of work by a special prosecutor, special judge and special grand jury are credited with breaking the rackets and cutting vice crime in the Youngstown district. Eight racketeers are jailed, 14 others fined, the bug racket broken up and houses of prostitution closed.

A new infantile paralysis case is the 14th to be treated at South Side Hospital in the current outbreak of the disease. The patient, 11-month-old Robert Reese, is receiving the Kenny Hot-pack Method of treatment.