Today is Sunday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2005. There are 76 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chooses Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be

Today is Sunday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2005. There are 76 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chooses Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope; he takes the name John Paul II.
In 1793, during the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded. In 1846, dentist William T. Morton demonstrates the effectiveness of ether as an anesthetic by administering it to a patient undergoing jaw surgery before an audience of doctors in Boston. In 1859, abolitionist John Brown leads a group of about 20 men in a raid on Harper's Ferry. In 1916, Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic, in New York City. In 1946, 10 Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials are hanged. In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis begins as President Kennedy is informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba. In 1964, Harold Wilson of the Labor Party assumes office as prime minister of Britain, succeeding Conservative Sir Alec Douglas-Home. In 1970, Anwar Sadat is elected president of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser. In 1984, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of non-violent struggle for racial equality in South Africa. In 1987, a 58-and-a-half-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ends happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well.
October 16, 1980: Niles City Council approves legislation to recall two firemen and two policemen who were laid off in June as the city struggled with its financial crisis.
WFMJ-TV announces that the audience for President Carter's Town Hall meeting in Youngstown will be selected by a drawing from hundreds of entry cards submitted.
A Boardman Township youth is hospitalized and three companions treated after they were struck by shotgun pellets outside a Holbrook Drive home. Their alleged assailant is arrested.
An estimated 1,000 persons attend the silver anniversary performance of the W.D. Packard Concert Band at the Packard Music Hall in Warren.
October 16, 1965: The latest proposal for reconstruction of Youngstown's Central Square is getting opposition from some members of the Central Area Development Association. The plan calls for running Market St.-Wick Ave. beneath Federal Street at the square. The underpass is the best way to accommodate 25,000 vehicles that travel north and south each day with 7,000 pedestrians who travel east and west each day, says City Engineer J. Phillip Richley.
Mrs. Belva Sihock, a 27-year-old mother of five, is trampled to death by a pony the family kept as a pet, which had escaped from their pasture.
A half dozen plans for redistricting Ohio's Legislature, including one prepared by a high school civics class, are filed with a federal court in Columbus that is charged with seeing the Ohio's redistricting meets the U.S. Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" decree.
October 16, 1955: Before boarding a plane for the West Coast where he will attend groundbreaking ceremonies for the $220 million Trinity River Project in Northern California, U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown says it is high time for Ohio civic leaders, businessmen and government officials to band together to push for a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.
The end of night scholastic football games in Youngstown is threatened following an incident in which a 14-year-old South Side boy was attacked by a gang of 10 youths following the South High-Campbell Memorial game.
The 37th annual Community Chest campaign opens beneath a banner reading "Share Your Blessing" with a goal of raising $889,296 to fund 36 Red Feather agencies.
October 16, 1930: With 127 police department employees and a population of 174,000, Youngstown has fewer policemen per thousand population than any city in its population group in the nation, yet its crime record is no worse than that of other cities, statistics compiled in Washington show.
City Council and the Labor Board meet with Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan to discuss ways of relieving unemployment in Youngstown. A committee of 100 persons will be assembled.
A contract for about $200,000 worth of metal hospital equipment is booked by the General Fireproofing Co. for the new Los Angeles, Calif., County Hospital.
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