Today is Monday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2008. There are 86 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2008. There are 86 days left in the year. On this date in 1927, the era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of “The Jazz Singer,” a movie starring Al Jolson that features both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.

In 1683, 13 families from Krefeld, Germany, arrive in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settlements. In 1908, actress Carole Lombard is born in Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek is elected the president of China. In 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaces after spending 60 days submerged. In 1973, war erupts in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attack Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday. In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade. In 1983, Cardinal Terence Cooke, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, dies at age 62.

October 6, 1983: Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. “dares” Mahoning County commissioners to press charges against him if he has allowed any illegal expenditures in his department.

A lawyer for Hunt Energy Co. says Philadelphia National Bank’s mortgage foreclosure suit against the company is “irresponsible and ridiculous.

October 6, 1968: Cleveland police charge at a small group of anti-Wallace demonstrators with nightsticks after the demonstrators blocked the car carrying former Alabama governor and independent presidential candidate George Wallace following a campaign stop.

A medical assistance fund is created to help defray the expenses of Miss Cecelia Bracken, victim of severe facial injuries during violence after the North-South high school football game a week earlier.

October 6, 1958: Two prominent Youngstown men, Atty. Robert D. Huxley and Michael T. Walsh, who for many years was associated with the Internal Revenue Service, are named to head the local re-election campaign of Gov. C. William O’Neill.

A human skull believed to have been washed out of the Greenwood Cemetery on New Castle’s West Side was being played with by a group of boys until neighbors called police. The skull, which the boys found in a gully behind Etna Street, is turned over to the cemetery’s custodian.

October 6, 1933: Atty. Donald J. Lynn, a member of the Youngstown law firm of Harrington, Hurley & Smith leaves for Washington, D.C., where he will assume duty as special counsel for the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

Lucius B. McKelvey is feted on the eve of the G.M. McKelvey’s Co.’s Golden Jubilee, kicking off what will not only be an anniversary celebration but a sale aimed at routing Old Man Depression.