Years Ago

October 5, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2010. There are 87 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1892: The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, is practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan.

1910: Portugal is proclaimed a republic following the abdication of King Manuel II in the face of a coup d’etat.

1921: The World Series is covered live on radio for the first time as Newark, N.J., station WJZ relays reports from the Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants were facing the New York Yankees. (Although the Yankees won the opener, 3-0, the Giants won the series, 5 games to 3.)

1947: President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address as he speaks on the world food crisis.

1988: Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambastes Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

1990: A jury in Cincinnati acquits an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.

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1985: A fire at the General Motors van plant at Lordstown injures five workers, two of whom remain hospitalized

The Rev. Judith Olin reflects on her first year as superintendent of the Youngstown district of the United Methodist Church. She is the only woman to serve in that capacity in Ohio.

1970: The Madison Avenue expressway, a $6.6 million section of Youngstown’s arterial highway system from Belmont Avenue to Oak Street, is opened.

The Greenville Steel Car Co. at Greenville, Pa., is building a 300-car unit train of aluminum to haul Southern Ohio coal to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.’s coal-short electric power generating plants on Lake Erie.

1960: A small safe containing over $25,000 is taken from the office of State Chevrolet, 669 Wick Ave.

An underwriting group issues $40 million in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. bonds at 4.5 percent.

William A. Ambrose, one of the most colorful trial lawyers in Mahoning County’s history and prosecuting attorney for 20 years, dies in Cleveland Clinic Hospital. He was 73.

1935: Youngstown refinances its debt of $972,000, selling the bonds to Providence Bank & Trust Co. of Cincinnati at a rate of 4.5 percent on the first $623,000 and 4 percent on the remainder.

Dr. F.F. Piercy is elected president of the Youngstown Kiwanis Club.