Years Ago

October 11, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2010. There are 81 days left in the year. This is the Columbus Day observance in the United States, as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

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On this date in:

1779: Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, dies two days after being mortally wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Ga.

1809: Just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis is found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35.

1890: The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded in Washington, D.C.

1910: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis, Mo.

1962: Pope John XXIII convenes the first session of the Roman Catholic Church’s Second Ecumenical Council, also known as “Vatican 2.”

1968: Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, is launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

1975: “NBC Saturday Night” (later “Saturday Night Live”) makes its debut with guest host George Carlin.

1985: Arab-American activist Alex Odeh is killed by a bomb blast in Santa Ana, Calif. (No arrests were made in the case.)

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1985: The Youngstown Urban League calls a community meeting at St. Andrewes AME Church to discuss what it calls, a “state of emergency” in Youngstown’s black community, citing, among other factors, a 40 percent unemployment rate in the black community.

Sheila MacRae, a seasoned stage and film favorite, returns to the Packard Music Hall in Warren to open the Trumbull Town Hall lecture series.

Jetstream International Airlines is preparing to initiate Piedmont Commuter air service between the Youngstown Municipal Airport and Baltimore-Washington International.

1970: Youngstown teenagers are highly commended by Mayor Jack C. Hunter for their exceptionally good behavior at football games, despite some isolated incidents.

Dr. Walter Greissinger, city health commissioner, applies to the U.S. Department of Transportation for a grant to finance a four-year study of Youngstown’s drunken drivers.

U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield of Oregon speaks at the awards dinner of the U.S. Humane Society at the Avalon in Howland Township. Hatfield says the “welfare of mankind is linked to the welfare of all nature.”

1960: Franciscan fathers from Pittsburgh break ground for a new monastery on a 54-acre site on Garfield Road, just north of Columbiana in Beaver Township.

Early morning voting is reported light in Hubbard, where residents will approve or reject a council-manager form of home-rule government.

Martha Halus is chosen 1960 homecoming queen at Campbell Memorial High School.

1935: C.C. Stillman, retiring WPA chief of Ohio, reports that there are 2,947 people employed on 53 WPA projects in Mahoning County and 773 working on 20 projects in Trumbull County.

Responding to claims by Ohio State University spokesmen that the school will have to close within a week if the state does not provide funds, Gov. Davey asserts that most of the OSU football squad is on the state payroll, showing that the state has been more than supportive of OSU.