Today is Saturday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2005. There are 91 days left in the year. On this date in 1908, Henry Ford introduces the Model T automobile to the market.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2005. There are 91 days left in the year. On this date in 1908, Henry Ford introduces the Model T automobile to the market.
In 1800, Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty. In 1885, special delivery mail service begins in the United States. In 1896, the U.S. Post Office establishes Rural Free Delivery. In 1943, Allied forces capture Naples during World War II. In 1949, Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong raises the first flag of the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing. In 1961, Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run during a 162-game season, compared to Babe Ruth's 60 home runs during a 154-game season. In 1962, Johnny Carson debuts as the regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show. In 1964, the Free Speech Movement is launched at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1971, Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Fla. In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrives in Boston for the start of a tour of the United States.
October 1, 1980: Striking Boardman teachers return to the picket line in defiance of a court order by Common Pleas Judge Clyde Osborne that they return to the classroom.
More than 2,800 Mahoning Valley steelworkers are on strike or honoring picket lines outside seven area fabricating companies.
The three story section of the Youngstown Hotel, a downtown landmark since the 1920s, is being razed. The new eight-story tower is being spared the wrecking ball and will be converted into offices.
October 1, 1965: Judge Clifford M. Woodside, 75, dies of a heart attack at his home, 2104 S. Meridian Road, as he was preparing to go to the Mahoning County Courthouse. Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. is appointed interim Probate Court judge.
Ralph M. Wilkoff, a Youngstown business and civic leader who gained national prominence in the insurance industry, is killed ina car-truck collision on rain-swept Route 18 near Route 46.
President Lyndon B. Johnson chooses the Statue of Liberty as the scene for signing into law a historic immigration reform bill that will increase immigration to the United States by 60,000, to 355,000 a year.
October 1, 1955: Scores of residents stand atop the Silica Road bridge watching at one minute after midnight as barricades are lifted and the first cars, buses and trucks are allowed to roll onto the newly completed Ohio Turnpike.
The Chrysler Corp. announces that it will build a $100 million automobile body stamping plant employing about 3,500 workers in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, probably close to Youngstown because of the nearness to steel supplies.
Eighty-five traffic violators, many of them nabbed by radar patrols for speeding past Madison School, jam into Youngstown Municipal Court for one of the busiest traffic sessions of the year.
The first coke produced in Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s new 76-oven coke battery is "pushed" during an informal ceremony at the Campbell Works.
October 1, 1930: The modern Blair Strip Steel Co. plant at New Castle is a mass of rains after fire swept through the plant causing $250,000 in damage. George B. Blair, company president, says the company will have to suspend operations on work for General Motors. Co. and the Ford Motor Co., both of which use pressed-steel parts from the plant.
A fire rages out of control in Canfield's business district, destroying seven business buildings, with the total loss estimated at $75,000.
Youngstown's total bonded indebtedness is reduced to $4.7 million , the lowest in many years, when Finance Director James E. Jones pays off outstanding bonds of $2.2 million.