Years Ago

October 4, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Oct. 4, the 277th day of 2010. There are 88 days left in the year.

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1822: The 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, is born in Delaware, Ohio.

1957: The Space Age begins as the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit.

1958: The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service is begun by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York.

1960: An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-188A Electra crashes on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing all but 10 of the 72 people on board.

1970: Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, is found dead in her Hollywood hotel room.

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1985: Civilian unemployment, which had been at its lowest rate since President Reagan took office and the lowest since April 1980, when it was 6.9 percent, inches upward in September to 7.1 percent.

Developers of the proposed Ronneburg Brewery in North Jackson reject Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro’s suggestion that they reapply for a $9 million federal grant, but developer J.J. Cafaro insists that the project is not dead.

1970: At least 22,000 workers, more than 20 percent of the Youngstown district’s industrial labor force, are idled directly or indirectly by the UAW strike against General Motors, says A.E. McCully, Ohio Bureau of Employment Services area manager.

Roosevelt Howell, a 1966 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High in Youngstown, is a newly appointed officer in the Executive Protective Service, a division of the U.S. Secret Service that protects the White House and buildings in which presidential offices are located.

1960: Santa Ana Calif. Police Chief Edward Allen, formerly Youngstown’s chief, tells the national conference of chiefs of police that every department should coordinate its intelligence activities with other enforcement units to crackdown on organized crime.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. gives the Youngstown Area Community Chest campaign a boost by announcing a corporate gift of $105,000, an increase of $5,000 from a year earlier.

1935: O.E. Hawk, former prominent Youngstown real estate operator who was convicted of swindling scores of Youngstowners out of man thousands of dollars, is paroled from Ohio Penitentiary after serving two years of a 1-10 year sentence. He has been offered a lucrative post with an unidentified Indianapolis company.

United Engineering & Foundry Co. receives a $1 million contract for two mills and equipment for the Granite City Steel Co.