Today is Monday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2005. There are 75 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2005. There are 75 days left in the year. On this date in 1919, the Radio Corporation of America is created.
In 1931, mobster Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. (He is released in 1939.) In 1933, Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.In 1945, Col. Juan Peron stages a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina. In 1965, the musical "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever," with a score by Burton Lane and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, opens on Broadway. In 1973, Arab oil-producing nations announce they would begin cutting back on oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result is a total embargo that lasts until March 1974. In 1979, Mother Teresa of India is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale strikes northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage.
October 17, 1980: Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne sentences 16 Boardman teachers to serve 10 days in jail on contempt of court charges for violating his back to work order during their six-week strike. They'll be allowed to serve their time on weekends.
Hubbard's electric customers will not be billed in December and will receive free power for half of January thanks to an out-of-court settlement of a suit with Ohio Edison that will bring $223,813 to city coffers.
October 17, 1965: Mahoning County is divided into the 81st, 82nd and 83rd state representative districts under a redistricting plan approved in Columbus. Mahoning County will have its own state senator in the 33rd district and a new 32nd district comprising Trumbull and Ashtabula counties is formed, favoring election of a Republican there.
Programs for desalinating sea water to bring prosperity to parched areas of the earth could bring an industrial boom to the Mahoning Valley in the way of increased demand for the new wonder metal, titanium, which is produced in Ashtabula and Niles.
Without ceremony, the billion-dollar New York World's Fair comes to an end, its turnstiles having spun for more than 50 million admissions.
October 17, 1955: An unidentified group of South High students say that recent rowdyism at and following night football games is being caused by students of junior high age. The students also say that police have been lax in maintaining order.
An elderly Columbiana County couple drown when their car overturns and lands upside down in a six-foot-deep creek in Montore County, near Wheeling, W.Va. Dead are Elmer E. Martin, 70, and his wife, Effie, 80, of Columbiana-New Buffalo Road, East Lewistown.
October 17, 1930: Jacob Kalver, former secretary to the late Mark Hanna and well known in political and real estate circles in Youngstown, calls on Harry M. Daugherty, former U.S. attorney general, to sever his connection with the Harding Memorial at Marion. Kalver says two presidents have declined to dedicate the memorial because of Daugherty's involvement.
W.L. Buchanan, president of Youngstown City Council, will appoint a committee of 100 to study the city's unemployment problem and seek solutions.