Today is Thursday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2003. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2003. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date in 1888, the public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.
In 1635, religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut -- later Yale University -- is chartered. In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settles in present-day San Francisco. In 1930, Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the United States as she completes a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif. In 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. In 1958, Pope Pius XII dies. He is succeeded by Pope John XXIII. In 1962, Uganda wins autonomy from British rule. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2001, letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., are sent to senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy; the letters later test positive for anthrax.
October 9, 1978: C. Delores Tucker, former Pennsylvania secretary of state, speaking at the annual Freedom Fund Dinner sponsored by the Trumbull County branch of the NAACP, says that Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a unified society is in jeopardy, with society evolving into two classes, black and white.
A Glenwood Avenue man who escaped from City Jail with the help of a matron is recaptured after three months on the lam. He is captured by state troopers after a chase of several miles that began when the stolen car he was driving was spotted speeding in I-680 near Route 224.
October 9, 1963: Spokesmen for all three large religious groups in Youngstown, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, endorse Youngstown's proposed 3-mill school levy, citing the obvious needs facing the city public schools.
Three men questioned in Youngstown gang slayings are indicted by the U.S. District Court grand jury on tax charges. Indicted are Ronald Carabbia, Phillip "Fleagle" Mainer and Leo Moceri.
October 9, 1953: George Shuba, Brooklyn Dodgers outfield, home in Youngstown from the World Series, will captain one of the teams in a Major-Minor League All-Stars game at Shady Run field. Twenty major league players are donating their services in a game against McKelvey's Store, the National Amateur Baseball Federation champions, with all proceeds from the game going to the Heart Fund.
Ohio will provide 1,090 young men for the November draft call, with 38 coming from Mahoning County, 20 from Columbiana and 25 from Trumbull.
Youngstown's string of 105 days without a traffic fatality ends with the death of Robert Karcher, 13, of Rigby St., who was struck by a truck on the Lincoln Park bridge, where the boy and friends were catching pigeons.
October 9, 1928: The mother of a 20-year-old Youngstown man sentenced to one to 15 years in the Mansfield Reformatory is overcome with grief and has to be carried from the courtroom of Judge George H. Gessner. The man pleaded guilty to stealing $202 worth of merchandise from the Stark Electric Co. Judge Gessner rejected the mother's plea for mercy, saying, "If youths will be spared because of their mothers, there will never be anyone indicted."
Members of First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown open a campaign to raise $400,000 for a new church. Paul Wick is chairman of the committee.