Today is Tuesday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of 2008. There are 64 days left in the year. On this date

October 28, 2008 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of 2008. There are 64 days left in the year. On this date in 1958, the Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is elected Pope; he takes the name John XXIII.

In 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts passes a legislative act establishing Harvard College. In 1776, the Battle of White Plains is fought during the Revolutionary War, resulting in a limited British victory. In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opens his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan. In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland. In 1893, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first public performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathetique”) in St. Petersburg, Russia, just nine days before his death. In 1918, the Republic of Czechoslovakia proclaims its independence. In 1919, Congress enacts the Volstead Act, which provides for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Wilson’s veto. In 1958, the Samuel Beckett play “Krapp’s Last Tape” premieres in London.

October 28, 1983: Major domestic auto makers report a record $1.16 billion in profits in the third quarter of 1983. General Motors posted $737 million; Ford, $333 million, and Chrysler, $100 million. American Motors lost $9 million.

New Castle’s business administrator says the city will ask for a freeze of all employee salaries in 1984 and says that if binding arbitration provides increases, layoffs will be made to offset the cost.

Marine Lance Cpl. James E. McDonough, who has been reported missing in the Beirut bombing, is confirmed as dead.

October 28, 1968: A Salem couple and a youth who was a fugitive from a juvenile detention center in Columbus are killed when their cars collide in Route 14 near Ravenna. Dead are John C. Rotteborn, 60, and his wife, Mary, 54, owners of the Jenkins Corner Grocery in Salem.

A month-long observance of the 75th anniversary of Westminster United Presbyterian Church concludes with a morning youth service. The Rev. Paul Gaus, former pastor, was the speaker at a banquet.

Margie Sfara, 20, a junior from Struthers, reigns as 1968 Homecoming Queen of Youngstown State University.

Burglars cut a hole in the roof of the Jackson Milton branch of the Mahoning National Bank but fail to crack the vault.

October 28, 1958: Stambaugh Auditorium is filled by more than 3,000 Protestants of all denominations for a community-wide rally climaxing the observance of Reformation Sunday. The adult choir of 300 was the largest ever assembled for the event.

Jo-Ann Gennock of New Castle, Pa., a fourth year student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, wins the sixth annual Youngstown Philharmonic Piano Concerto competition.

St. John’s Episcopal Church pledges $17,000 toward the 1959 Missionary Quota of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio.

October 28, 1933: Youngstown police are without a clue as to the identity of two men and a woman who threw acid in the face of Mrs. Charles R. Hogg, 50, of Oak Street, the wife of the president of the Federated Improvements Club.

Harry E. Rowbotham, 10, of 101 Bentley Ave., Niles, is killed by an automobile while his brother David, a year younger, looks on from the curb stone in the 600 block of Robbins Avenue.

Dr. W. W. Charters, a professor of education at Ohio State University, thinks the moving picture industry should have children’s departments that make movies that will be a positive influence on young people.