Years Ago

October 17, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2010. There are 75 days left in the year.

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1610: French King Louis XIII, age 9, is crowned at Reims, five months after the assassination of his father, Henry IV.

1807: Britain declares it would continue to reclaim British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held U.S. citizenship.

1910: Social reformer and poet Julia Ward Howe, author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” dies in Portsmouth, R.I. at age 91.

1931: Mobster Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. (Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Capone is released in 1939.)

1933: Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1941: The U.S. destroyer Kearny is torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Iceland; 11 people die.

1973: Arab oil-producing nations announce they would begin cutting back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result is a total embargo that lasts until March 1974.

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1985: The Youngstown Area United Way campaign climbs past the $2 million mark as it enters the final phase of a $2.5 million campaign.

Boardman High School Basketball Coach Al Burns says Marcel Driver, a 6 foot 7 inch junior from Detroit doesn’t understand the controversy adults have raised about Driver’s enrollment in Boardman schools as the ward of Burns’ son-in-law. Driver would likely be one of the best basketball players in the Youngstown area.

1970: Mahoning County commissioners are considering establishing a solid waste disposal district for unincorporated areas of the county to control land fills and dumps in the interests of health and landscape.

Suellen Stiffler, a Youngstown State University junior, is elected Homecoming Queen of Youngstown State University.

1960: East Liverpool’s Bernie Allen leads Purdue to a 24-21 upset of Ohio State. Allen kicked a 32-yard field goal, passed brilliantly and ran the clutch yardage in the victory over the No. 3 ranked Buckeyes.

Raymond J. Wean, Warren executive, is named to the 22-man board of directors of the newly merged Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Co.

Dr. William J. Flynn of Youngstown is elected president of the Ohio division of the American Cancer Society during the state convention in Columbus.

1935: Second Ward Councilman Wesley Dodson says he will introduce legislation to establish a speed limit of 20 mph for automobiles operating within the city.

Industrial observers see a looming battle between the Youngstown area tin plate mills and the Toledo glass plants as canned beer begins to replace bottled beer and the American Iron and Steel Institute predicts an output of 1.5 billion beer cans in 1936.

Police chief Leroy Goodwin and Judge David Jenkins warn drivers of sound trucks plying downtown streets to keep their volume down. The warning comes after a court hearing is interrupted by a sound truck driving past the courthouse.