Today is Thursday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2005. There are 86 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2005. There are 86 days left in the year. On this date in 1927, the era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," a movie starring Al Jolson which features both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.
In 1889, the Moulin Rouge in Paris first opens its doors to the public. In 1905, tennis great Helen Wills Moody is born in Berkeley, Calif. In 1949, President Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, totaling $1.3 billion in military aid to NATO countries. In 1949, American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," is sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. (She ends up serving more than six years.) In 1973, war erupts in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attack Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday. In 1976, in his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Ford asserts there is "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." (Ford later concedes he'd misspoken.) In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.
October 6, 1980: Two persons are arrested and two others are cited for disorderly conduct on the picket line as the strike by Boardman teachers enters its fifth week.
Youngstown Industrial Corp. has six prospects, including four that it describes as "very good," to set up new industrial plants at its Brier Hill Industrial Park.
Elsie Dieter, Mahoning County co-chairman of the Reagan-Bush campaign, announces that Ronald Reagan will be in Youngstown where he will address a crowd at the Youngstown Municipal Airport before a dinner meeting with several men involved in the steel industry. He will stay overnight at the Holiday Inn North.
Junior Steve Johnson runs for four touchdowns as the Cardinal Mooney Cardinals crush DuBois, Pa., 57-0.
October 6, 1965: The Ohio Water Service Co. is considering building a new water supply reservoir on Yankee Run in Hartford Township to augment its industrial water supplies and furnish domestic water to parts of Trumbull County.
The mercury dips to an Oct. 6 record low of 28 degrees at the Youngstown Municipal Airport. The old record of 36 was set in 1958.
Former Ambassador Joseph Farland urges Trumbull County Republicans at the annual Giddings Club banquet to help defeat President Johnson's "Great Society" movement, starting with support of Republicans at the polls in November.
October 6, 1955: City Council approves rezoning of property at Market St. and Hylda Ave. for a new Sears, Roebuck & amp; Co. store.
Fifth Ward Councilman John Oesch, disturbed by reports that only one traffic cruiser is on duty throughout the city between midnight and early morning, asks Police Chief Paul Cress for a complete report on the situation.
Mayor Frank X. Kryzan predicts that the city will end 1955 with a balance of $175,000.
Only one out of 20 vehicles using the new Ohio Turnpike on opening day was a truck, Turnpike Manager Russell Deetz reports.
October 6, 1930: Harry Dornbrack, night watchman at the Stambaugh-Thompson Co. store, thwarts an attempt to rob the store safe by refusing to give the combination to a masked burglar who attacked him.
Two women are killed when an automobile driven by the husband of one of the victims is struck by a B & amp;O passenger train near Niles. Dead are Mrs. Selina Noga, 47, of Cleveland, and Miss Helen Noga, 19, of Youngstown.
A party of backers of the proposed Beaver-Mahoning-Shenango waterway leaves for Cincinnati to seek approval of the project from the Ohio Valley Improvement Association.