Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2003. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2003. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English at the Battle of Hastings. In 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, is born in Denison, Texas. In 1933, Nazi Germany announces it is withdrawing from the League of Nations. In 1943, the Radio Corporation of America completes sale of the NBC Blue radio network to businessman Edward J. Noble for $8 million; the network is renamed the American Broadcasting Company. In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler. In 1960, the idea of a Peace Corps is first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan. In 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968, the first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft is transmitted from Apollo 7. In 1990, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein dies in New York at age 72.
October 14, 1978: The Rev. Benjamin J. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tells more than 800 people at the Youngstown NAACP Freedom Fund dinner that civil rights leaders across the nation must unite to prevent the erosion of advances made in civil rights.
The Carter administration commits more time than money to the Mahoning Valley in a meeting with officials from Struthers, Campbell and Lowellville.
Copperweld Corp. reports sales of $101 million for the third quarter, compared with sales of $82 million for the same period a year earlier. Net income for the quarter was $4.6 million, a 59 percent increase over third quarter results in 1977.
October 14, 1963: Ten Mahoning Valley men have been added to the rolls of Northeast Ohio residents who have purchased $50 federal gambling tax stamps for fiscal 1964. Ten Mahoning County men were on the first list issued in August.
Negotiations are underway to sell Lee Rubber & amp; Tire Corp.'s strikebound Republic Rubber plant in Youngstown to Aeroquip Corp. with headquarters in Jackson, Mich.
The Youngstown Chapter, National Association of Accountants, marks the 25th anniversary of its founding with a banquet at the Youngstown Country Club. Merwin P. Cass, national president of the NAA, attends.
October 14, 1953: "The same racketeers and vice lords once in power are still hanging around, hoping the opportunity will knock by having a mayor in office who will be indebted to the same Democratic machine that granted them the power to operate in the past," says Mayor Charles P. Henderson, at a Republican rally at St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Two 16-year-old South Side boys will have to appear in juvenile court to explain why they placed a dummy in Oak Hill Avenue as a Halloween prank. The realistic dummy caused several minor traffic tie ups before police took the dummy to headquarters. A short time later the boys appeared at the station to claim the dummy as theirs.
Youngstown City Council repeals the city's six-year-old amusement tax at the request of theater owners, who say the 3 percent levy could drive them out of business. Theaters turned over $51,790 in amusement taxes in 1952.
October 14, 1928: A girl hit-skip driver, whose machine struck and killed Constantine Blad, 50, on Warren-Niles Road in Warren, is being sought.
Mrs. James A. Campbell heads the new Woman's City Club, already composed of nearly 1,000 women. The club will soon take occupancy of its new clubhouse, the former H.M. Garlick residence.
Canton McKinley succumbs before the crushing aerial display of Coach Roland Bevan's Rayen crew, 18-0, at the Rayen Stadium. Chaney High trounces Sharon, 14-0, in an exciting game at South Field.