YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 15

Today is Thursday, Nov. 15, the 319th day of 2018. There are 46 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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.

1942: The naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends during World War II with a decisive U.S. victory over Japanese forces.

1982: Funeral services take place in Moscow’s Red Square for the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev.

1998:Kwame Ture, the civil-rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, dies in Guinea at age 57.

2003: Two Black Hawk helicopters collide and crash in Iraq; 17 U.S. troops are killed.

2008: World leaders battling an economic crisis agree in Washington to flag risky investing and regulatory weak spots in hopes of avoiding future financial meltdowns.

2013: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford vows to take the City Council to court after it votes overwhelmingly to strip him of some of his powers over his admitted drug use, public drinking and increasingly erratic behavior.

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1993: The Walt Disney Co. selects Todd Cole, a first-grade teacher at Laurel Elementary School in New Castle, Pa., to be one of 36 teachers nationwide to attend the American Teacher Awards show at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

Bernie Kosar, dumped by Cleveland Browns Coach Bill Belichick because “his skills have diminished,” steps in for injured Troy Aikman to lead the Dallas Cowboys to a 20-15 victory over the Phoenix Cardinals. Meanwhile Todd Philcox, Kosar’s replacement, threw two interceptions as the Browns’ loss to the Seahawks, 22-5.

1978: Some 100 former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. workers who have exhausted all their benefits have filed for welfare benefits with the Mahoning County Welfare Department.

The Boardman Township Zoning Board of Appeals clears the way for construction of Park Place, a 68-unit condominium project to be built in the Devonshire Drive area.

Two South Side bowling lane operators plan to build a new $1.2 million bowling facility and restaurant on the West Side, on Vestal Road, between Osborne Avenue and Meridian Road.

1968: The 184-room Tod Hotel, a Central Square landmark that once provided lodging for celebrities, closes permanently and will be demolished as part of the downtown urban renewal.

Roman Catholic bishops are facing a showdown vote on a birth-control compromise that calls the use of contraceptives a sin, but says married couples who break the ban won’t be cut off from the church.

Two 18-year-old East Side youths plead innocent to charges of burglary and carrying concealed weapons and are turned over to Trumbull County deputies to be questioned in the murder of a Farrell, Pa., man.

1943: The Youngstown Catholic Diocese is studying new and stricter marriage regulations designed to halt the spread of divorce.

Five Youngstown girls, members of the Ohio WAC unit, will leave for training at Daytona Beach, Fla. They are Helen Kohn, Antoinette Luscre, Genevieve Mortauz, Katherine Rigelsky and Ann Tomascewsky,

St. Columba gridders snare their 11th straight Mahoning Valley Parochial League championship by handing St. Dominic’s a 44-7 defeat.