Today is Sunday, Oct. 26, the 300th day of 2008. There are 66 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Oct. 26, the 300th day of 2008. There are 66 days left in the year. On this date in 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confront Ike Clanton’s gang in the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” in Tombstone, Ariz. Three members of Clanton’s group were killed; Earp’s brothers and Holliday were wounded.

In 1825, the Erie Canal opens in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River. In 1942, Japanese planes badly damage the USS Hornet in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during World War II. (The Hornet sinks early the next morning.) In 1958, Pan American Airways flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in 8 hours and 41 minutes. In 1967, the Shah of Iran crowns himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne. In 1972, national security adviser Henry Kissinger declares, “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam. In 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee is shot to death by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-kyu. In 1984, “Baby Fae,” a newborn with a severe heart defect, is given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. (Baby Fae lives 21 days with the animal heart.) In 2001, President Bush signs the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.

October 26, 1983: The Mahoning County Jail is overcrowded and undermanned and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections warns county officials they could face lawsuits if the problem is not alleviated.

Struthers Mayor-elect Howard Heldman threatens to resign if voters approve a charter on Nov. 8 that would create a city manager, cut council from seven to five members and slash the pay for the mayor and council.

Baltimore Quarterback Art Schlichter, suspended after running up $600,000 in gambling debts, says he hopes people will understand if and when he is allowed to return to the NFL as a player. Schlichter was a quarterback at Ohio State University.

October 26, 1968: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. puts into operation the first electrostatic precipitator at its Campbell Works open hearth, part of a $10 million smoke abatement program.

John Palermo, 30, a Youngstwon patrolman, is unanimously chosen by the Mahoning County Democratic Central Committee to take his father’s seat as a county commissioner. He has a leave of absence from the police department until the end of 1968.

October 26, 1958: Holy Trinity Church in Struthers begins the final phase of its move from Washington Street to a Hilltop site over looking the Mahoning Valley with the ground breaking for a elementary school that will cost $500,000.

Some 300 former Hungarian Freedom Fighters and other representatives of Iron Curtain countries mark the second anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution with a service at Our Lady of Hungary Church.

Youngstown University beats Eastern Kentucky State, 14-9, and the University of Pittsburgh rallies from two touchdowns down to tie Army, 14-14, in college football action.

October 26, 1933: A small screw, inhaled months ago by Emil Villecco, 6-year-old Niles boy, is removed from his lung in Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, saving his life. Meanwhile, a hickory nut shell is removed from the lung of James E. Huffman, 8, during a procedure at the bronchoscopic clinic of Youngstown Hospital.

The Ohio Relief Commission has granted $3.5 million in relief to the unemployed in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties during the first nine months of 1933.

Mahoning County deputies seize four more alleged gambling machines in raids on restaurants and drug stores in Youngstown.