Today is Friday, Oct. 10, the 284th day of 2008. There are 82 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Oct. 10, the 284th day of 2008. There are 82 days left in the year. On this date in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy is established in Annapolis, Md.

In 1758, French fur trader, early St. Louis settler and “father of Oklahoma” Jean Pierre Chouteau is born in New Orleans. In 1813, composer Giuseppe Verdi is born in Le Roncole, Italy. In 1908, the Chicago Cubs win Game 1 of the World Series with a 10-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Bennett Park. In 1911, revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen launch their overthrow of China’s Manchu dynasty. In 1935, George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” opens on Broadway. In 1938, Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. In 1958, the private-eye series “77 Sunset Strip” premieres on ABC-TV. In 1967, the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, goes into force. In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleads no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigns from office. In 1978, President Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar. In 1998, former Defense Secretary and presidential adviser Clark M. Clifford dies at age 91. In 1993, Iranian writer and activist Shirin Ebadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize; conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announces during his syndicated radio show that he is addicted to painkillers and is checking into a rehab center.

October 10, 1983: Mike Iberis, Ohio Bell manager, says construction will begin on a $6 million Ohio Bell switching center in Canfield.

Republic Steel Corp.’s acquisition by LTV Corp. of Dallas probably signals the beginning of a whole new era in American steelmaking, with the division between large and small American steel companies more clearly defined, writes Vindicator Business Editor George R. Reiss.

Disgruntled ex-employees who blow the whistle on the doctors who employed them account for about half the investigations for Medicare fraud, James Cuppy of Nationwide Insurance Co. tells the annual fall conference of the Ohio Osteopathic Medical Assistants Association, meeting in Youngstown.

October 10, 1968: Robert H. Humphrey, youngest son of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, tells newsmen in Youngstown that he considers his father’s Sept. 30 speech on Vietnam as a “clear-cut departure” from the Johnson administration’s war policy.

Youngstown public high school football games will revert to a 7:45 p.m. kickoff time with more auxiliary police on duty and volunteers providing oversight.

The Ohio Highway Department declares the 71-year-old Chester-East Liverpool bridge unsafe for normal traffic, but won’t close the span for two years.

October 10, 1958: Steel production in Youngstown’s mills takes a 9 percent jump in just a week, bringing production to 64 percent of capacity and bringing the recall of hundreds of laid-off workers.

Sandra Sherwood, a South High graduate and junior at Youngstown University, will reign as homecoming queen at the university’s golden jubilee homecoming game as YU meets Western Kentucky.

Cardinal Edward Mooney, formerly of Youngstown, arrives in New York by train from Detroit and will sail for Rome, where he will join the college of cardinals in selecting a new pope.

October 10, 1933: Three or possibly four gunmen are on the loose after staging a daring daylight robbery at Second National Bank in Warren, taking $68,000 from two bank messengers, Charles Wolfe and Frank Fisher.

Ruth Johannesmeyer of Meadville, Pa., is engaged to marry Paul Siple of Erie, a member of Commander Richard E. Byrd’s excursions to the South Pole.

The Pittsburgh Coal Co. resumes construction on the last link of a 13-mile railroad from Negley to Smith’s Ferry, Pa., to provide an Ohio River outlet for the Youngstown steel district.