Today is Tuesday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2005. There are 67 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2005. There are 67 days left in the year. On this date in 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" takes place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charges the Russian army during the Battle of Balaclava and suffers heavy losses.
In 1400, author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London. In 1918, the Canadian steamship Princess Sophia founders off the coast of Alaska; nearly 400 people perish. In 1929, former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe in connection with the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California. In 1962, U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presents photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council. In 1971, the U.N. General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan. In 1983, a U.S.-led force invades Grenada at the order of President Reagan, who says the action is needed to protect U.S. citizens there. In 1999, golfer Payne Stewart and five others are killed when their Learjet flies uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42. In 2002, U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., is killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota 11 days before the election.
October 25, 1980: The Youngstown Fire Department's snorkel truck is demolished when a wall of a blazing North Side warehouse collapses on it. Fire Chief Charles O'Nesti estimated it will cost $200,00 to replace the 12-year-old truck.
The Republic Steel Corp.'s storage rack division on Albert Street is awarded a $4.9 million contract with the Navy that could create 130 jobs.
More than 200 teachers, some from districts as far away as North Canton, congregate outside the Mahoning County Jail to greet 16 Boardman teachers as they arrive to begin spending a weekend in jail, serving sentences for contempt of court rising out of the six-week strike at the school district.
October 25, 1965: Charles P. Henderson is sworn in as Mahoning County probate judge, filling the unexpired term of the late Clifford M. Woodside.
Baldwin Wallace College pulls one of the major upsets in Ohio collegiate football for the season with a 30-0 drubbing of Youngstown University's Penguins, ending YU's winning streak at five.
Wendel F. Lauth, superintendent of the Bristol School District in Trumbull County, is a candidate for president of the North Eastern Ohio Teachers Association of Cleveland.
October 25, 1955: Rowdyism at night football games is being attacked on two fronts to prevent banning of night games by the Board of Education. Student representatives of the city's six high schools meet with the Board of Education to discuss cooperation while police officials meet with principals to discuss strategy.
Fire Chief John R. Lynch denies he is asking for six captains for the new downtown fire station to insure a promotion for engineer Joseph Flask, brother of 3rd Ward Councilman Anthony B. Flask.
The Community Chest campaign has a first report of $360,270 toward the campaign goal of $889,206.
October 25, 1930: John Chakos, 40, of Holmes St. is arrested on a charge of manslaughter, accused of shooting to death Gus Mouhanos, 35, of Kenmore Ave., the man who was arrested a week earlier on charges of contributing to the delinquency of Chakos' 14-year-old daughter.
Among the 73,000 football fans pouring into Pitt Stadium for the game between Notre Dame and Pitt are an estimated 5,000 Youngstown area residents who went to Pittsburgh by special train and by auto.
Starting from airports on opposite sides of the continent and at a mid-continent terminal, seven giant airliners inaugurate the flying of mail and passengers across the United States in 36 hours.