Mark Lewis

November 30, 1969 – Reds fans loved him. Indians fans, too. Mark Lewis is born in Hamilton. His major league baseball career would land him on six teams: the Cleveland Indians, the Cincinnati Reds, the Detroit Tigers, the San Francisco Giants, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Baltimore Orioles before his career ends at age 31. He retires to his Hamilton hometown.
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Roger Troutman

November 29, 1951 – Electrofunkster Roger Troutman is born in Hamilton. He would pioneer the voice-altering talkbox and vocoder as lead singer of Zapp, co-write More Bounce to the Ounce and be heavily sampled by West Coast rappers, including Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dog and Dr. Dre. He died at 47 from gunshot wounds after being shot by his brother, Larry, who then committed suicide.
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Dahmer

November 28, 1994 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was raised in Bath and was responsible for killing 17 men and boys, is murdered himself by a fellow inmate at Columbia Correction Institute in Wisconsin. Dahmer was serving a 936-year prison sentence.
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Old Man Time

Pete Toth has sculpted Indian heads with his chain saw in dozens of states but his first came in Akron at Sand Run Park on Ohio 18, east of I-77 at Fairlawn Grade School. Maybe today it will have a dusting of snow on it and look like Old Man Time.
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Train Kept A-Rollin

November 26, 1958 – Musician and band leader Tiny Bradshaw, who was born in Youngstown, dies in Cincinnati at the age of 53. His “Train Kept A-Rollin” in 1951 was later covered by the Yardbirds in 1965 and Aerosmith in 1974.
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Ralph Chilton

November 25, 1931 – Ralph Chilton figures that ice is always nice but tiny cubes would be nicest of all. A Dayton resident, he receives patent for a contraption that removes ice cubes from freezer trays.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE November 24, 1864 – William Copelan is born in Cincinnati. Copelan would become a police chief of Cincinnati and be the last chief to serve who started his career by patrolling on horseback. November 24, 2004 – The 14.04-pound 30 1/8 inch long saugeye caught by Roger Sizemore of Orient in Antrim Lake is a state record.

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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE November 23, 1999 – Brunswick’s Tom Haberman takes a chilly fishing trip on Lake Erie and comes home with a 16.19 pound, 33-inch-long Walleye for a state record. November 23, 1968 – Ohio State University blows out Michigan 50-14. Coach Woody Hayes goes for a two-point conversion after a late-game TD. When asked why Hayes replies: “Because I couldn’t go for three.”
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The Inscription Rock State Memorial

The Inscription Rock State Memorial on Kelleys Island has hundreds of etchings from pre-historic Native Americans. It can be a foreboding place in November and that offers a glimpse of the hardship they encountered.
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November 21, 2007: A federal appeals court finds in favor of Steve Popovich, founder of Cleveland International Records, in his battle with Sony/BMG over removing his label’s name from Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” album. Popovich’s company also released songs by Southside Johnny, Ronnie Spector and several polka bands.
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Joe Walsh

November 20, 1947 – Joe Walsh is born in Oklahoma but moves to Columbus. After stints in New Jersey and New York City, Walsh heads to Kent State University to create power rock trio The James Gang. His brilliant guitarwork leads to a gig with the Eagles. Walsh performed the national anthem at game four of the World Series of 1995 and Rocky Mountain Way follows every Colorado Rockies win. His favorite guitar? A 1959 Gibson Les Paul.
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World’s Largest Wooden Horse and Buggy

The World’s Largest Wooden Horse and Buggy – probably the world’s only large wooden horse and buggy – seems to roll through the Ohio farmland outside Mesopotania at 8719 State Route 534 northwest of Warren.
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When Nome, Alaska, needed diphtheria serum in 1925, a dogsled team led by Balto braved 70 mph wind and -60 degrees to get it there. But Balto the Wonderdog ended up with a broke owner in Los Angeles. Cleveland schoolkids donated pennies and raised $2,000 to buy Balto. After his death in 1933, Balto was displayed at the Cleveland history museum. A Balto statue is in Central Park in New York City.
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Mary of Guadalupe

It’s not the world’s largest statue of Mary but it’s pretty daggone big. Marvel at 50-foot Mary of Guadalupe in Windsor in extreme northeast Ohio. Get to it on Ireland Road, which runs north-south between US 6 and Hwy 86. The radiant coils of wire on her back add technical appeal. Don’t visit during a lightning storm.
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America’s forgotten presidents

They are America’s forgotten presidents, that is, presidents who toiled under the Articles of Confederation, which predates the Constitution. Find out more about John Hanson, Elias Boudinot, Thomas Miffin, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, Nathaniel Gorham, Arthur St. Clair, and Cyrus Griffen at the One and Only Presidential Museum, 6585 Howard Rd, Williamsfield.
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Chrissie Hynde

November 15, 1994 – Akronite Chrissie Hynde sings Luck be a Lady with Frank Sinatra on his Duet II album produced by Phil Ramone. A girl from Ohio with great pipes and big dreams achieves yet another: harmonizing for music lovers forever with the greatest crooner of all time.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE November 14, 1895 – Frank “The Fence” Lausche, born in Cleveland, becomes a minor league baseball player but gives it up for law school and politics. He becomes the only five-term governor in Ohio history. November 14, 1856 - Mark Twain, 19, writes a letter to his mother in Hannibal that he is living in Cincinnati, has a job as a printer and that things are fine.
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John Hunt Morgan

November 13, 1863 – John Hunt Morgan and some followers tunnel out of a jail cell in the Ohio Penitentiary to an airshaft. They return to their cells, wait a week, fashion a rope from prison uniforms and reach the prison yard. Morgan uses $1,000 smuggled in a Bible from his sister to buy a train ticket to Cincinnati, which leads to an escape to Kentucky.
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Alliance

Alliance is the only town in America with a Main Street that is a dead end on both ends.
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The Twist

November 11, 1958: Celebrating a renewed contract with powerhouse R&B label King Records, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters go into King’s Cincinnati studio and record an upbeat tune called The Twist. Though Ballard’s original version eventually becomes a modest hit, it is left to Chubby Checker to cover it and create the greatest dance tune of all time.
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Glen Buxton

November 10, 1947 – Glen Buxton (dies Oct. 19, 1997) is born in Akron but moves to Arizona where he creates a band called the Earwigs. Eventually landing with Alice Cooper’s band, Buxton is credited as lead guitarist for Cooper and co-writes School’s Out, I’m Eighteen and Elected. Rolling Stone named him one of the top 100 guitarists of all time. He wrote Eighteen in a backroom of the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati.
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Great Lakes Hurricane

November 9, 1913 – Called the Great Lakes Hurricane, a storm blows in from the north with unsurpassed power. Some 235 crewmen lose their lives as 12 commercial ships go down. Winds hit 79 mph in Cleveland.
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Rick Steiner

November 8, 1946 - Rick Steiner is born in North Avondale in Cincinnati. Steiner sells T-shirts on the carnival circuit, becomes a world champion poker player and then, with a lifelong pal, pluck and luck, produces an amazing string of Broadway hits: Big River, Into the Woods, A Secret Garden, The Producers, Chicago, The Wedding Singer, Smokey Joe’s Café, Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray and Jersey Boys.
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Dean Jagger

November 7, 1903 - Dean Jagger, star of “Twelve O’Clock High” who won both the Academy Award and an Emmy for his work, is born near Columbus Grove in Putnam County.

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Gorden Brisker

November 6, 1937 – The late Gorden Brisker is born in Cincinnati, attends the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where he becomes one of the top tenor saxophonists in the nation and plays extensively with Bill Berry and Woody Herman.
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Leonard Franklin Slye

Nov. 5, 1911 – Leonard Franklin Slye is born in Cincinnati and grows up in a house demolished to make way for Riverfront Stadium and now Great American Ball Park. His family soon moved to Portsmouth and eventually wound up in California during the Great Depression. After four failed years as a singer, Rogers finally gets a hit: Tumbling Tumbleweeds and he becomes the justice-seeking singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
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November 4, 1997 – As Elton John’s Candle in the Wind tribute to Lady Di rolls through the charts, a new drummer joins the band – John Mahon from Canton.
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE November 3, 1865 – The nation’s 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is born in Marion. Harding's good looks led GOP bosses to believe he would appeal to women voters, who were voting for the first time in 1920. November 3, 1926 - Raised in poverty and a self-taught child sharp shooter to feed her siblings, Annie Oakley finds fortune and fame thanks to Buffalo Bill. She dies on this day and is buried in Greenville.
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November 2 - Akronite Bobby Neuwirth now of Greenwich Village inspires Bob Dylan in 1961 with his banjo picking: “Like Kerouac immortalized Neal Cassady, somebody should have immortalized Neuwirth…You had to brace yourself when you talked to him.” Neuwirth tells Dylan he's headed home to put storm windows up for his parents. Dylan used to do that, too, but not this year. Destiny has other plans for Bob Dylan.
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The Afghan Whigs

Nov. 1, 1986 – The night after Halloween, University of Cincinnati student Greg Dulli and Ohio University student Rick McCollum, who met in a jail cell in Athens on Halloween night, agree to form a rock and roll band: The Afghan Whigs.
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