Years Ago

October 3, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2010. There are 89 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: President George Washington declares Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.

1929: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changes its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

1951: The New York Giants capture the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hits a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ralph Branca in the “shot heard ’round the world.”

1960: “The Andy Griffith Show” premieres on CBS television.

1995: The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial finds the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.

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1985: Officials suspect arsonists set fires in the basement of the Salem High School auditorium, which did minor fire but heavy smoke damage.

Youngstown City Council defeats an ordinance that would have made it illegal for scavengers to take items from commercial Dumpsters or residential trash containers or piles.

The New Castle Redevelopment Authority rejects an attempt by city council to take control of rehabilitation and demolition programs in the city

Ray Novotny is named Mill Creek Park naturalist to succeed Bill Whitehouse.

1970: Three men rob the Lake Milton branch of Farmers National Bank of $13,000 and slip through a dragnet that drew scores of policemen and FBI agents to southwestern Trumbull County.

John Bassetti, 20, a stringer for The Vindicator, who covered the Wilson-East game at Rayen Stadium, is robbed of his wallet and beaten by a gang of youths on Fifth Avenue.

1960: Walkouts by members of the International union of Electrical Workers idle 700 workers at General Electric’s Youngstown Lamp Works and 800 at the Ohio Lamp Works in Warren.

Ohio Bishop Hazen G. Werner tells 400 Methodist laymen in Youngstown that the church must expand its presence in the suburbs, noting that it must add 9,000 new members every year to keep pace with Ohio’s growth.

1935: A happy hayride of 26 members of the Christian Endeavor Class of the Third Reformed Church of Brownlee Woods ends in injury and death when a car strikes the wagon on Market Street Ext. at Leighton Avenue. Dead is Paul Lundquist, 28; three young women and a young man are injured.

Forty members of the Youngstown Tailors Union go on strike, seeking $20 a week for those doing women’s alterations and 80 cents an hour for men’s tailors.

City council backs Mayor Mark Moore’s crackdown on reckless driving as the city is on the verge of registering a record year for traffic deaths.