Years Ago

October 9, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2010. There are 83 days left in the year.

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1888: The public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.

1910: A coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado leaves 56 miners dead.

1930: Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the United States as she completes a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y. to Glendale, Calif.

1940: Rock and roll legend John Lennon is born in Liverpool, England.

1946: The Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opens at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.

1958: Pope Pius XII dies at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He is succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

1967: Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.

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1985: The Youngstown Hospital Association will use $12 million in low-interest revenue bonds approved by Mahoning County commissioners to make improvements and buy equipment for its various facilities.

An escalating feud between Mayor Joseph Melfi and the Girard Homecoming committee has festival organizers hunting for an alternative site outside the city for the 1986 Homecoming celebration.

1970: Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne clears the way for the Ohio Turnpike Commission to close the interchange near North Jackson when he dismisses a lawsuit opposing the closing.

Disregarding auto industry pleas that it can’t be done, a House-Senate conference committee sets Jan. 1, 1975, as the deadline for reducing exhaust pollutants by 90 percent.

1960: A Warren contractor, J.S. Durig, says he will file suit against Youngstown after the city awards a $112,000 contract for an interceptor sewer job to a Youngstown company although Durig bid $109,000.

The national Republican “truth squad” led by U.S. Sen. Norris Cotton of New Hampshire, is in Youngstown to respond to the address by U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democratic presidential nominee, who is speaking in Central Square.

1935: Construction is expected to begin before the end of the year on the long-awaited Wick Avenue bridge after the federal government approves Ohio‘s grade elimination project, which includes $390,000 for the Youngstown project.

Park commissioner Lionel Evans leads William B. Spagnola by a small margin in first returns of The Vindicator’s straw poll in the crowded Youngstown mayoral race.