Today is Friday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2005. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2005. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English at the Battle of Hastings. In 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, is born in Denison, Texas. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he goes ahead with a scheduled speech. In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler. In 1960, the idea of a Peace Corps is first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan. In 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968, the first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft is transmitted from Apollo 7. In 1980, Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises that, if elected, he will name a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. (He later nominates Judge Sandra Day O'Connor of Arizona.) In 1987, a real-life drama begins in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slides 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center. (Hundreds of rescuers works 58 hours to free her.) In 1990, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein dies in New York at age 72. In 1995, an armed gunman seizes a bus carrying South Korean tourists in Moscow's Red Square (commandos storm the bus the next day, killing the gunman and freeing four remaining hostages). The Atlanta Braves win the National League pennant by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 6-0, to complete a four-game sweep.
October 14, 1980: Republic Steel Corp. announces it has reached agreement with U.S. Steel Corp. for purchase of the sinter plant located at the Ohio Works. About 90 people will be employed at the plant.
President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, will be making a swing through Youngstown, accompanied by the man who tried to replace him on the Democratic ticket, Sen. Edward Kennedy.
About 20 parents from throughout the city meet with Youngstown Supt. Emanuel Catsoules to discuss continuing complaints they have with pupil transportation provided by the WRTA, a month after the WRTA service began replacing school buses in the city.
October 14, 1965: "The U.S. government accounts for 18.5 percent of the entire American economy," Martin R. Gainsbrugh, vice president of the National Industrial Conference Board, says at the annual economic workshop sponsored by the Economic and Business Foundation in Youngstown. Some 280 teachers and school administrators attend the session.
The Mahoning County Republican Executive Committee endorses Atty. Charles P. Henderson, 54, to succeed Probate Judge Clifford M. Woodside.
Edwin Thomas, former Lisbon industrialist, donates 40 acres on Route 164, midway between Lisbon and Columbiana, as the site of the proposed Columbiana County Community College.
October 14, 1955: Third Ward Councilman Anthony B. Flask says he favors a wage increase for city employees and further municipal improvements, but is reluctant to increase Youngstown's income tax.
A capacity crowd of 2,500 is expected for dedication ceremonies at the $1.5 million W.D. Packard Music Hall in Warren.
More than 500 people tour the Aetna-Standard Engineering Co. plant at Ellwood City to see changes made in a $2.5 million expansion and renovation program.
October 14, 1930: Alex Verbias, 24, an estranged husband brooding over his inability to support his wife and year-old baby, shoots and kills his mother-in-law, wounds his wife and father-in-law and then kills himself at the in-laws home on Federal St. in Niles.
The Youngstown Board of Education passes a budget for 1931 that is $761,000 more than the prospective income, leaving it to county Auditor John J. Arnold to find the money or reduce the budget.
Twenty-five girls are working eight hours a day at the Mahoning County Board of Elections typing out registration cards for 55,000 voters in Youngstown, Campbell and Struthers who registered under the new registration laws.