Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2008. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2008. There are 78 days left in the year. On this date in 1908, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series as they defeat the Detroit Tigers in Game 5, 2-0, at Bennett Park.

In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English at the Battle of Hastings. In 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, is born in Denison, Texas. In 1908, the E.M. Forster novel “A Room With a View” is first published. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he goes ahead with a scheduled speech. In 1933, Nazi Germany announces it is withdrawing from the League of Nations. In 1944, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler. In 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. (“Chuck”) Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

October 14, 1983: A jury of nine men and three women deliberates nine hours over three days before finding Rosalie Grant, 23, of Youngstown guilty of deliberately killing two of her children by setting fire to their bedroom.

The Austintown Board of Zoning Appeals approves the use by the Diocese of Youngstown of property it owns along North Raccoon Road for a cemetery.

Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole says a new federal regulation requiring a brake signal light at eye level on the rear of new cars will prevent as many as 40,000 injuries.

October 14, 1968: The U.S. Supreme Court rejects without comment the appeals of three Youngstown DeNiro brothers from their convictions in U.S. District Court of evading $55,494 in federal estate taxes in connection with the assets of their slain brother, racketeer Vince DeNiro.

Robert J. Catlin, a Trumbull County labor leader who announced that he would oppose James P. Griffin in the race for director of District 26, United Steelworkers of America, has been reassigned to a district headquartered in Atlanta.

Coming to the Paramount Theater in downtown Youngstown Oct. 17, Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican vice presidential candidate.

Fred B. King Jr., Youngstown funeral director and long-time leader in the fight against cancer, is honored by the National American Cancer Society at its Ohio Division meeting in Cleveland.

October 14, 1958: Ohio Gov. C. William O’Neill breaks ground for a half-million dollar Ohio State Employment Service office building at 2026 South Avenue.

The Youngstown Police Department Juvenile Bureau offers a suggestion to parents from the National Safety Council that children wear painted faces on Halloween, rather than masks that can restrict vision.

For the second consecutive year, water consumption in the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District drops from the 1955 record of 31.2 million gallon a day.

October 14, 1933: Sen. James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, a native of Sharon, is acquitted by a federal court jury in New York of operating an illegal lottery by supporting a fund-raising enterprise of the Loyal Order of the Moose.

J. Eugene Bennett, president of the YMCA, warns that failure is eminent for the annual Y membership campaign with only $4,417 raised toward a goal of $14,000 with only four days remaining.

Rachel Awkwright of Fourth Street, Struthers, wins a verdict of $20,000 damages against the city of Struthers for a fall on the sidewalk on Fifth Street in which she broke a femur and spent 10 months in the hospital.