Today is Saturday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2005. There are 77 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2005. There are 77 days left in the year. 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 1928, the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, N.J., completing its first commercial flight across the Atlantic. 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 1966, President Johnson signs a bill creating the Department of Transportation. In 1969, peace demonstrators stage activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War. 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.
October 15, 1980: Boardman teachers ratify a two-year contract giving them 17 percent salary raises, ending a 51/2-week strike -- the longest school strike in Mahoning County history.
Republican Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan says "its time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists" and pledges to appoint a woman to "one of the first" vacancies that becomes available on the court. President Carter says he would consider a woman for the court, but would not promise to name one.
U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, appears at a rally at the Krakusy Hall and calls for the election of state Sen. Harry Meshel over the incumbent congressman, Lyle Williams. James A. Traficant Jr., candidate for Mahoning County sheriff, who was not endorsed by the Democratic Party, drops in and tells Metzenbaum, "I don't get along with the party bigwigs, so I guess I don't get the benefit of exposure with a guy like you."
October 15, 1965: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown says he is gratified by House approval of a $9.24 million appropriation to start construction of the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium in the nation's capital.
Louis DeNiro is given 90 days in a federal penitentiary and Michael and Frank DeNiro Jr. are given probation on charges of fraud and tax evasion connected to the estate of their brother, assassinated racketeer Vince DeNiro. The government claimed taxes of $110,000 were due on assets of $391,000, much of which were hidden through fictitious transactions.
October 15, 1955: Charges of violence in the hotly contested steelworkers union vice presidential campaign are filed with USW headquarters in Pittsburgh. Two District 26 staff men are accused of attacking Donald Howells, president of Local 2334 at Truscon Steel Division and secretary of the group backing Howard Hague for vice president.
Vincent Gantt, 14, an eighth grader at Hillman Junior High School, is treated at South Side Hospital after being attacked by a group of 10 boys on his way home from a football game at South High stadium.
Youngstown University purchases a lot at the southwest corner of Spring and Bryson streets from First Christian Church for $10,500. A ravine that ran through the lot has been filled with stone from the ruins of St. Columba Cathedral. It will provide parking for 75 cars.
October 15, 1930: Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., returns to his office after an eight-day vacation and says he sees signs of a quick resumption of activities in the steel industry, especially in providing steel for new automobile models.
Under police orders designed to reduce motor accidents, blind and deaf pedestrians in Budapest, Hungary, must wear broad yellow bands on their arms to attract the attention of motor car drivers.