Today is Wednesday, Oct. 8, the 282nd day of 2008. There are 84 days left in the year. The Jewish

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 8, the 282nd day of 2008. There are 84 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset. On this date in 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupts; fires also break out in Peshtigo, Wis., and in the Michigan communities of Holland, Manistee and Port Huron.

In 1869, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, N.H. In 1892, Sergei Rachmaninoff first publicly performs his piano Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Opus 3, Number 2, in Moscow. In 1918, Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and helps capture 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann is indicted by a grand jury in New Jersey for murder in the death of the son of Charles A. Lindbergh. In 1945, President Truman announces that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.

October 8, 1983: Pickands Mather & Co. of Cleveland is selling assets of its Carbon Limestone Division near Lowellville to a Uniontown, Pa., concern, SME Limestone Co. About 100 workers will lose their jobs.

Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. says it may have to abandon its uncompleted Zimmer nuclear power plant at Moscow, Ohio, because of rising construction costs. The estimated cost has ballooned from $240 million to more than $1 billion.

The FBI arrests racketeer Orland Carabbia on charges he conspired to import a ton of marijuana and launches a search for Joseph Naples Jr. on charges he violated U.S. firearm laws.

October 8, 1968: Thirty-eight of 71 Youngstown men who took a Civil Service examination for police cadet attained passing grades, according to the eligibility list released by the Civil Service Commission. Topping the list was Reynold J. DePaul.

Ohio will need an additional 75,000 new housing units annually for the next 10 years to meet the booming population growth and higher dual incomes, the Ohio Savings & Loan League estimates.

Fourth Ward Councilman Corry A. Dama asks police to explain why they refused to act against cars parked illegally in Hillman Street. Some South Side residents are enraged after a small child was nearly hit by a car while walking around cars parked on the Hillman Street sidewalk.

October 8, 1958: A resolution supporting slum clearance and renewal programs in Youngstown is passed by the executive committee of the Community Chest.

More and more Youngstown district residents are plunging in the stock markets, investing in a wide variety of stocks or in the so-called “mutual funds,” writes Vindicator industrial editor George R. Reiss.

Youngstown Branch 108 of the William Penn Fraternal Association celebrates the branch’s 50th anniversary at the Calvin Center. The national association has 90,000 members in 30 branches; the Youngstown branch has 1,200.

October 8, 1933: Frank Miller, 48, who shot his wife twice within two months, the second time fatally, hangs himself in Youngstown City Jail with a rope fashioned from strips torn from his mattress.

About 150 people attend a ceremony on the William Cope farm three miles north of Columbiana marking discovery of a spring there that is the cradle of Mill Creek. The spring was discovered by Bruce Rogers, co-founder of Mill Creek Park, John H. Chase and Paul Kuegle.