Years Ago

October 6, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2010. There are 86 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1683: Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrive in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settlements.

1949: President Harry S. Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, providing $1.3 billion in military aid to NATO countries.

U.S.-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster “Tokyo Rose,” is sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison (she ends up serving more than six).

1973: War erupts in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attack Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

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1985: The Mahoning County Children Services Board says reports of sexual abuse of children has increased dramatically since 1980, with 116 cases investigated so far in 1985.

Robin Ahrens, 33, an FBI agent wounded in a shoot out with a robbery suspect in Phoenix, dies, becoming the first woman agent killed in the line of duty.

1970: Chester H. McPhee, a veteran educator, now retired, is elected the new president of the Youngstown Board of Education, succeeding Atty. Robert Murphy.

Plans for a hotel and office tower on the site of the old Palace Theater downtown are expanded from 17 stories to 20 stories by the developer, Dale-Howe Corp.

1960: Nick Comsia, 73, veteran Campbell tavern owner, pulls a revolver on an armed robber, firing once and killing the robber with a shot to the head. The man entered the Comsia Tavern on Wilson Avenue as Comsia was preparing to open at 6 a.m.

The Ohio Supreme Court rejects appeals by Warren Racketeer Mike Farah clearing the way for him to begin serving a four- month sentence on an assault conviction.

Sixty-five percent of Youngstown’s 1,200 employees are enrolled in the Community Chest payroll deduction plan and the group has exceeded its $8,400 goal by $375,

1935: A four-year-old boy, Lloyd Gray, is dead and his sister, Dorothy, 9, is severely burned after a group of children pour a can of gasoline, thinking it was water, on a fire they had used to roast potatoes in a Youngstown backyard.

Newton D. Baker, wartime Secretary of War, in Youngstown for business with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says he is shocked by Italian air bombing in Ethiopia and the deaths of women and children, but does not expect the United States to be drawn into war.