Today is Thursday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2008. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2008. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date in 1958, Pope Pius XII dies at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He is succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut — later Yale University — is chartered. In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settles in present-day San Francisco. In 1888, the public is first admitted to the Washington Monument. In 1919, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, defeating the Chicago White Sox 10-5 at Comiskey Park. (The victory turns hollow amid charges eight of the White Sox had thrown the Series in what became known as the “Black Sox” scandal.) In 1930, Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the United States as she completes a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif. In 1946, the Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opens at the Martin Beck Theater in New York. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. In 1968, the new military government of Peru seizes the country’s oil fields. In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

October 9, 1983: The RMI Co. will spend millions of dollars to build its own tubing mill and enter into a long-term agreement with outside contractors for strip mill services as part of a plan to grab a larger share of the growing nonaerospace titanium market.

A significant number of Youngstowners remains undecided in the mayoral contest, but the Vindicator straw poll shows Democrat Patrick J. Ungaro has the lead over Republican Thomas D’Amico.

October 9, 1968: Youngstown Area United Appeal Campaign opens its drive for $1.7 million during a dinner at Hotel Ohio.

Robert A. Humphrey, son of Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, tells a breakfast meeting of Trumbull County Democratic leaders in Warren that the difference between Humprhey, Richard Nixon and George Wallace is that Humprhey’s campaign “appeals to man’s hopes rather than to his fears or hates.”

October 9, 1958: Cardinal Edward Mooney, the Youngstown native who will take part in the election of a successor to Pope Pius XII, mourns the loss of a friend and hails the pope as a man “literally worn out by his unremitting devotion to the demanding tasks of his high office.”

Edward Crave, 62, of Lincoln Park Drive, is in St. Elizabeth Hospital after an unidentified robber shot him and took his car in a parking lot at Jackson Street and Edgewood Avenue.

October 9, 1933: Following one of the best retail trade days in years, Saturday Youngstown launches its own branch of the nationwide National Recovery Act’s “Now is the Time to Buy” campaign.

Hugh Bryson Wick, 64, a founder and former president and chairman of the board of Steel & Tube Inc., and a member of a family of pioneer industrialists in the Mahoning Valley, dies at his home in Cleveland Heights.

The Rev. Eric Grimwade of Baker, Iowa, who was educated in England, Germany and the United States, will assume the pastorate of the First Unitarian Church. In the United States, he attended the University of Chicago and the Meadville Theological Seminary formerly in Meadville, Pa.