Today is Monday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2005. There are 82 days left in the year. This is

Today is Monday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2005. There are 82 days left in the year. This is Columbus Day in the U.S., as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada. On this date in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Md.
In 1911, revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrow China's Manchu dynasty. In 1935, George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway. In 1938, Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of office as president of China. In 1964, the 18th Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo. In 1970, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front, a militant separatist group. (Laporte's body is found about a week later.) In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleads no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion, and resigns his office. In 1978, President Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar. In 1981, funeral services are held in Cairo for Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, who had been assassinated by Muslim extremists. In 1985, U.S. fighter jets force an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen are taken into custody.
October 10, 1980: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne finds 12 striking Boardman teachers guilty of contempt of court and fines them $500 each and sentences them to 10 days in jail for defying his back-to-work order. The teachers were ordered to return to work or report to jail within 36 hours.
Some 1,000 workers will be recalled to the General Motors van plant at Lordstown, ending layoffs at the plant that have lasted a year.
Gus Hall, the Communist Party U.S.A.'s presidential candidate who was once a party organizer in Youngstown, says the government should nationalize the steel industry rather than try to cure its ills with injections of federal money.
October 10, 1965: The Youngstown district is in for a "cold winter" as a result of a let-down in steelmaking, but it could be a bright spring when General Motors Corp.'s new Fisher Body-Chevrolet plant at Lordstown goes into operation, creating new demand for local products.
Twenty-five new members are added to the full-time faculty of Youngstown University to take care of the constantly increasing enrollment. Among them are the Rev. George Duritza, philosophy; Frank C. Polite, English; Alfred Bright, art, and Jagdish C. Mehra, economics.
Five members of Boy Scout Troop 6 at Christ UP Church receive Scouting's Eagle Award: Jonathan Price, Robert Sprinkle, Thomas Mentges, Warren G. Ferrell Jr. and Robert Toth.
October 10, 1955: Salem's American Legion Quaker City Bank wins second place for the second straight year at the Legion's national band competition held in Miami, Fla. The 54-piece Salem band representing Charles H. Carey Post 56, is runner-up to the famed Joliet, Ill., band, which won for the 10th consecutive year.
The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio will build a $1.5 million bulk station and pipeline terminal on Route 422 north of Niles.
Delbert Carter, 35, of Cleveland, a boilermaker employed by the W.B. Pollock Co. of Youngstown, is killed when he falls nearly 200 feet from a smokestack at the Republic Steel Corp.'s steel works in Cleveland.
October 10, 1930: The Rev. W.A. "Billy Sunday, sawdust trail evangelist, will come to Youngstown to speak in an "absolutely nonpartisan argument" to show that "booze must never come back and that Uncle Sam shall never wear the bartender's apron again."
Dr. Kenneth Irving Brown is installed as president of Hiram College in a ceremony that draws representatives of 45 colleges. Dr. Brown, at 34, is one of the youngest college heads in the nation, succeeding Dr. Miner Lee Bates, who died in August.
Unfilled orders of the U.S. Steel Corp. decreases 155,866 tons in September to a total of 3.4 million tons, the lowest level since October 1927. Wall Street observers decline to make advance estimates of future activity.