Today is Friday, Oct. 15, the 289th day of 2004. There are 77 days left in the year. Islam's holy

Today is Friday, Oct. 15, the 289th day of 2004. There are 77 days left in the year. Islam's holy month of Ramadan begins today or tomorrow with the sighting of the first moon of the new lunar month. On this date in 1964, it is announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev has been removed from office. He is succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
In 1914, the Clayton Antitrust Act is passed. In 1917, Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, is executed by a French firing squad outside Paris.In 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is executed. In 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisons himself hours before he was to have been executed. In 1969, during the Vietnam War, peace demonstrators stage activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House. In 1976, in the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole face off in Houston. In 1990, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1991, despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirms the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48.
October 15, 1979: Looking rested and healthy, Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley resumes a regular schedule at City Hall after having been treated in Washington D.C. for a heart attack suffered while in the nation's capital on city business.
The Cincinnati Bengals get their first victory of the season with a 34-10 upset win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers had nine fumbles, the most of one game in Coach Chuck Noll's 11 years at Pittsburgh.
October 15, 1964: A drawn-out battle to allow women to serve in the top governing body of the Episcopal church meets defeat by the narrowest margin yet, during the church's general convention in St. Louis, Mo.
The Most Rev. Clarence G. Issenmann, former bishop of Columbus, is named coadjutor bishop of Cleveland and apostolic administrator of the Cleveland Diocese.
October 15, 1954: "Any municipality that tolerates the existence of slum conditions only multiplies its police, health and social problems," says L.F. Donnell, president of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, speaking in support of an urban renewal bond issue that will appear on the November ballot.
October 15, 1929: Icicles 11/2 inches long and thick as pencils are reported in Poland, while much of the rest of the area reports heavy fog.
The Athletics of Philadelphia win the World Series, defeating the Chicago Cubs in the ninth inning of the fifth game.