Today is Friday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2003. There are 82 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2003. There are 82 days left in the year. On this date in 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleads no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigns his office.
In 1935, George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway. In 1938, Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of office as president of China. In 1970, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front, a militant separatist group. Laporte's body is found about a week later. In 1978, President Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar. In 1981, funeral services are held in Cairo for Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, who had been assassinated by Muslim extremists. In 1985, U.S. fighter jets force an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship "Achille Lauro" to land in Italy, where the gunmen are taken into custody.
October 10, 1978: Anger among blue-collar workers who struck Volkswagen's only U.S. assembly plant are angry not only at the company, but at the UAW, as well, which the workers say "sold them out."
The U.S. Senate votes to slash taxes across the board by $142 billion over five years, but ties reductions to heavy cuts in spending and a balanced budget by 1982. The bill goes to a House-Senate conference committee.
Voter registration in Mahoning County is on track to reach 160,000 for the first time in history. Democratic organizations have conducted aggressive registration drives.
October 10, 1963: An even dozen persons indicted in the federal grand jury probe of Youngstown area crime and rackets will stand trial in U.S. District Court in Cleveland after Jan. 1.
Three negotiators are sent from Columbus to Youngstown to help buy land for the Wickliffe Expressway. 4th Ward Councilman George Bindas had complained about lags in the Wickliffe job.
Atty. Walter F. MacQueen, a director of the McKinley Federal Savings & amp; Loan Association in Niles since its organization in 1918, is elected president of the institution by its directors.
October 10, 1953: Police have identified a German-made pistol that was found in a stolen car left at a Cleveland dealership as the weapon used to kill two truck drivers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and wound another in Lisbon in July.
Despite rains and cooler weather, the Mahoning Valley's supplies of stored water dwindles further, leaving the area's industries in even more serious danger of an acute water shortage.
October 10, 1928: The Navy dirigible Los Angeles passes over the Mahoning Valley on its way from an appearance at the American Legion convention in Texas to its berth in Lakehurst, following a route through Chicago, Cleveland, Akron and Pittsburgh.
George E. McNab, 74, a 33rd Degree Mason, prominent in the insurance business and well-known to all the older residents of Youngstown, dies at his home in Woodcrest, E. Madison Ave.
Warrant for the arrest on a charge of drunkenness is issued for H.C. Blosser, deputy warden in charge of the Junction City, Ohio, convict-operated brick plant, where a dormitory fire killed 20 inmates.