Today is Friday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2003. There are 89 days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2003. There are 89 days left in the year.
On this date in 1951, the New York Giants capture the National League pennant in game three by a score of 5-to-4 as third baseman Bobby Thomson hits a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca in the "shot heard 'round the world."
In 1863, President Lincoln declares the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day. In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changes its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, Adolf Hitler declares in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again." In 1952, the situation comedy "Our Miss Brooks," formerly a radio show, premieres on CBS with Eve Arden again in the title role. In 1990, West Germany and East Germany end 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country. In 1991, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial finds the former football star innocent of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
October 3, 1978: Assistant Librarian Robert H. Donahugh says the most valuable and rare books in the Public Library's collection apparently escaped damage in a two-alarm fire. The fire, meanwhile, is being investigated as an arson. No damage estimate has been released.
Youngstown City Hall employees are bristling under Mayor J. Phillip Richley's new work hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with a half hour for lunch. The employees want to return to 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with an hour for lunch -- a 35-hour work week.
The Youngstown Area United appeal opens its campaign with a luncheon at the YMCA and a goal of $2.1 million.
October 3, 1963: Seven persons are killed and an eighth critically injured when a truck hits two cars on the long, winding hill on Route 7 leading to Beaver Creek, about seven miles north of East Liverpool. Five of the victims were young people on their way to a church service in Glenmoor. It is the worst traffic accident in Columbiana County history.
A West Junior High School student recognizes one of three men who abandoned a getaway car in the school parking lot as a relative and tells Warren police. The identification leads to the quick arrest of three suspects in the robbery of a Union Savings & amp; Trust Co. branch in Warren and the recovery of $31,754 taken in the hold up.
President Kennedy's military advisers tell him the anti-Communist war in Vietnam is going well enough that it may be possible to declare victory and withdraw U.S. troops within two years.
October 3, 1953: The Air Force is investigating what caused the accidental firing of machine gun bullets from an F84 Thunderjet flying over Farrell, Pa., and is preparing to pay all damage claims. Lt. Col. Francis J. Vetort, commander of the Youngstown Air Base where the jet is based, said that every plane at the airport is kept constantly loaded with live ammunition in order to respond to any sneak attack.
Youngstown police are making only about half as many traffic arrests as would be expected in a city of Youngstown's size that was attempting to maximize traffic safety, a National Safety Council executive tells local safety officials.
Five men and four girls, including two teenagers, are arrested in a roundup of an alleged heroin ring by federal narcotics agents, Youngstown vice squad police and Warren detectives.
October 3, 1928: Lester Livermore, 23, is sentenced to a life term in the Ohio Penitentiary a day after his wife, who received a similar sentence for a $7,500 burglary at the home of Ruth Livermore's former employer's Fifth Avenue home. Both pleaded guilty. Though sentenced to life, both are eligible to apply for parole after five years, said Judge George Gessner, who sentenced them.
All public gatherings in the city, including football games, should be given police protection free, except where the men required for protection are on overtime duty, says Youngstown's acting mayor, Carl W. Armstrong.