Today is Friday, Oct. 8, the 282nd day of 2004. There are 84 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Oct. 8, the 282nd day of 2004. There are 84 days left in the year. On this date in 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupts while another deadly blaze breaks out in Peshtigo, Wis.
In 1869, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, N.H. In 1890, American aviation hero Eddie Rickenbacker is born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1918, Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh. In 1944, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" makes its debut on CBS Radio. In 1945, President Truman announces that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada. In 1956, Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0. In 1970, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1982, all labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, are banned. In 1985, the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro kill American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
October 8, 1979: Sisters of the Humilty of Mary at the Villa Maria Community Center in nearby Pennsylvania prepare to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the order in France.
Considerable Mahoning Valley support for U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy if he runs for the presidency is indicated when more than 1,000 Democrats assemble at a party fund-raiser at the Callamar Manor on Market Street extension.
Under gray, threatenting skies in Spring Common across from the Number One First Station, Youngstown firefighters dedicate a memorial to their dead comrades.
October 8, 1964: Ed Welsh, a retired empoloyee of the former Renner Brewing Co., has see all or part of every World Series played, including the first one between Pittsburgh andBoston in 1903. He's attending the New York games in the 1964 classic, and got a send-off from two former major league players from Youngstwon, Jack Mayo and George Shuba.
Construction is continuing at Kirk and Racoon Roads in Austintown on the Calvary Temple being built by the Rev. Clement E. Humbard. the Temple is a smaller version of the Cathedral of tomorow at Cuyahoga Falls, where the past is Clement's brother, the Rev. Rex Humbard.
October 8, 1954: A new $50,000 recreation building to replace the old wick Park bandstand and the restoration of the Man on the Monument are aproved by the Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission.
The Youngstown district's "back to work" movement in steel gains more impetus as the operating rate is increased to 72 percent of capacity and hundreds of workers are recalled.
A 43-year-old West Rayen Ave. man is arrested by a traffic patrolmen who saw the man take 25 cents from a stack of newspapers belonging to a newspaper vender at Central Square.
October 8, 1929: Youngstown police are searching for a bandit who shot and killed shopkeeper Louis Lapidus during a struggle at Lapidus' cut-rate furniture store.
A 40-year-old Lakewood Ave. man turns himself into police after beating a woman after her car bumped him as he was crossing Front St. the man told police he is a veteran of the World War and stil suffers from gas and shell-shock.
The first birth in the new North Side unit of the Youngstown Hospital is reported, a girl born to Mr. and Mrs. John Guerriero of 1506 Florencedale Ave.
Damage is estimated at $1,000 to the home of Joe Tota, 464 Lansing Ave., Youngstown, after a bomb explodes beneath the back porch of the home.