Today is Sunday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2002. There are 65 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2002. There are 65 days left in the year. On this date in 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, is published in a New York newspaper.
In 1858, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is born in New York City. In 1880, Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee. In 1904, the first rapid transit subway, the IRT, opens in New York City. In 1914, author-poet Dylan Thomas is born in Swansea, Wales. In 1938, Du Pont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon." In 1947, "You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC Radio. (It later becomes a television show on NBC.)
October 27, 1977: Youngstown City Council comes within one vote of asking Mayor Jack C. Hunter to suspend Law Director William Higgins for issuing a going-out-of-business sale permit to a jewelry store in Federal Plaza West. The councilmen contend the permit should have been subject to a 30-day waiting period.
Bethlehem Steel Corp., the nation's second largest steelmaker, records a third quarter net loss of $477 million, the biggest quarter loss ever by an American company.
October 27, 1962: Traffic accidents take five lives overnight in the Youngstown district, including two high school girls who were coming home from football games.
Portions of Northeast Ohio are digging out from under more than a foot of snow.
Ten-day-old June Marie Shanabarger arrives at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Homer Emerick of Austintown, the youngest person evacuated from the military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with other military dependents. The evacuation is in response to the Cuban missile crisis.
October 27, 1952: Second Ward Councilman John Palermo says he will oppose an ordinance allowing jitney drivers to operate in the city because it would be "nothing more than a form of strikebreaking." The strike by bus drivers entering the start of its fourth week, could erupt into violence if jitneys take to the roads, Palermo says.
The Ohio Water Service Co. notifies Mahoning County commissioners that it is withdrawing its offer of water service to Boardman, leaving Youngstown's new water contract the only one available for consideration.
October 27, 1927: Twelve men are indicted in the shooting death of farm hand Tony Popo . They will be tried jointly in a trial that is to begin in 10 days before Judge David G. Jenkins.
Advertisement: The blue plate special at the YMCA dining room, under the direction of Ethel Ralston is only 50 cents. "Three hundred people ate Ethel Ralston's famous chicken dinners at the Y last Sunday."