Today is Saturday, Oct. 25, the 299th day of 2008. There are 67 days left in the year. On this date

October 25, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 25, the 299th day of 2008. There are 67 days left in the year. On this date in 1854, the “Charge of the Light Brigade” takes place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charges the Russian army and suffers heavy losses.

In 1400, author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London. In 1760, Britain’s King George III succeeds his late grandfather, George II. In 1918, the Canadian steamship Princess Sophia founders off the coast of Alaska; some 350 people perish. In 1939, the drama “The Time of Your Life,” by William Saroyan, opens in New York. In 1951, peace talks aimed at ending the Korean War resumes in Panmunjom after 63 days. In 1957, mob boss Albert Anastasia of “Murder Inc.” notoriety is shot to death in a barber shop inside the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York. In 1962, U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presents photographic evidence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council. In 1971, the U.N. General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan. In 1983, a U.S.-led force invades Grenada at the order of President Reagan, who says the action is needed to protect U.S. citizens there. In 2002, U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., is killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others, 11‚Ñ2 weeks before the election.

October 25, 1983: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.’s top management proudly shows off its Campbell Works seamless pipe mill, rebuilt at a cost of $60 million.

While the Packard Electric Division of General Motors is sending assembly work out of Warren it is planning to add engineers to its Warren workforce.

A United Mine Workers Union official says it is unlikely that the UMW would endorse Democratic presidential candidate John Glenn of Ohio because of Glenn’s support for policies designed to reduce acid rain.

The Cincinnati Bengals score a 28-21 upset victory over the Cleveland Browns after a Sam Rutigliano’s set up for a fake field goal fooled no one, least of all the Bengals.

October 25, 1968: Nearly 13,000 Mahoning Valley employees of General Motors Corp. will get pay raises of eight cents an hour as the result of an increase in the consumer price index.

The greater Youngstown AFL-CIO Council, headed by Al Shipka, which refused to endorse two operating levies for Youngstown city schools, is criticized by Councilman Jack Hunter during a city council meeting for failing to show leadership.

October 25, 1958: Cardinal Edward Mooney, archbishop of Detroit, dies in Rome of a heart attack while attending the conclave to name a new pope. The Youngstown-born prelate was preparing to take a nap when he was stricken.

Sharon police are investigating the apparent murder of Mrs. Meri Kral Trojar, 81, whose body was found in the basement of her apartment at 987 Cedar Ave.

Boardman Township should incorporate to provide better services for its citizens, Samuel Sonefeld, Western Reserve law professor, tells 200 people at the Boardman High School auditorium. During a separate meeting at Hope Lutheran Church, Fay Heintzelman, Boardman trustee, and Marshall Simon, clerk, spoke against incorporation, saying township residents are satisfied with the services they receive.

October 25, 1933: A Youngstowner says he recognized Andrew Mellon, former Secretary of the Treasury, among a party of Pittsburgh Coal Co. officials who made an inspection tour of the new Ohio River-Youngstown Railroad docks at Smith’s Ferry.

A check of Youngstown business concerns and professional men made by local National Recovery Act workers shows that 998 have failed to sign President Roosevelt’s re-employment agreements.

For the first time in three years, Republic Steel Corp. has ended a quarter showing net earnings. The third quarter earnings of $148,239 compared to losses of $3.5 million for the same quarter a year earlier.