Today is Wednesday, Oct. 29, the 303rd day of 2008. There are 63 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 29, the 303rd day of 2008. There are 63 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, “Black Tuesday” descends upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapse amid panic selling and thousands of investors are wiped out as America’s “Great Depression” begins.
In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, is executed in London. In 1901, President McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted. In 1923, the Republic of Turkey is proclaimed. In 1940, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson draws the first number — 158 — in America’s first peacetime military draft. In 1956, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” premieres as NBC’s nightly television newscast, replacing “The Camel News Caravan.” In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invades Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In 1967, Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, closes after six months. In 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters try but fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
October 29, 1983: GATX Corp. announces that its board of directors has unanimously approved a management plan that will almost certainly mean closing GATX operations in Masury. The Masury facility has nearly 700 at work and another 700 on layoff.
St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center expects to lose money as a result of a change in the way the government reimburses hospitals for Medicare patients, but an official of the medical center assures that patient care will not suffer.
About 1,000 well-wishers, including former Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich, attend a testimonial dinner for Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich as he prepares to leave public life.
October 29, 1968: Mayor Anthony B. Flask and Finance Director Thomas J. Lavern recommend to Youngstown City Council the city use a computerized program to speed the payroll process and save on labor costs.
Hans G. Fleischner, commercial research associate for U.S. Steel Corp., tells some 100 people at the annual dinner meeting of the Youngstown district of the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers that Congress will be asked in January to place limits on steel imports.
Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro T. Agnew denies all charges in a New York Times story that accused him of “clear and repeated conflicts of interest” while serving as Maryland governor.
October 29, 1958: State and federal officials agree to use arterial highway funds to move a section of the main feeder line from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District to Youngstown, removing what could have been a stumbling block to the first leg of the innerbelt.
Joseph A. Coughlin, 60, former golf professional, is named deputy bailiff in the Youngstown Municipal Court by Judge Robert B. Nevin.
Pearl Gray Proctor, one of the founders of the Girl Scouts in Youngstown, dies in South Side Hospital at the age of 68. She was the wife of Robert Proctor, vice president of Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co.
October 29, 1933: Gov. George White dedicates the new $500,000 viaduct in Niles before a crowd of 8,000 people.
Ohio State University beats Northwestern, 12-0, with Youngstown’s Johnny Kabealo doing the punting for OSU; Youngstown’s Bill Renner is the star in another game for Michigan, helping defeat Chicago, 28-0.
Gov. George White pledges that the schools in Ohio will remain open, but says the state cannot act alone and teachers must be willing to make sacrifices.