Years Ago

October 21, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2010. There are 71 days left in the year.

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1797: The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as “Old Ironsides,” is christened in Boston’s harbor.

1805: A British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeats a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, is killed.

1879: Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.

1917: Members of the 1st Division of the U.S. Army training in Luneville, France, become the first Americans to see action on the front lines of World War I.

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1985: State Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich is seeking support for a bill that would set up an agreement between Ohio and Pennsylvania to seek construction of a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.

The K Mart Distribution Center in Bazetta Township secures a $3.6 million reduction in its personal property tax valuation. Trumbull County Auditor Ed Bush says the change will cost Lakeview School District $170,000 annually.

1970: Five men are injured when a bus loaded with draftees bound from Warren to Cleveland skids on the rain-slicked ramp at I-271 and I-90 and rolls over.

The Youngstown Festival Ballet Academy sponsored by the Youngstown Symphony Ballet Guild has nearly 200 students enrolled in 22 classes ranging from pre-ballet to advanced ballet, modern and jazz classes.

1960: Mahoning County may receive an additional $100,000 in Hill-Burton funds for construction of a new county home.

Enough marijuana to roll 40 cigarettes is seized by Youngstown Morals Squad police when they arrest three Youngstown men and a New Springfield girl in a raid on a Summit Avenue home.

1935: A 14-year-old Girard boy, Edward Grosbeck, dies after a hunter mistakes him for an animal and shoots him on a farm near Burton.

Four Metropolitan Grand Opera stars open the Monday Musical Club season at Stambaugh Auditorium: Queena Mario, Doris Doe, Giovanni Martinelli and Ezio Pinza.

To mark the Andrew Carnegie centennial celebration, the Carnegie Corp. of New York is presenting reproductions of a Luis Mora portrait of Carnegie to the 2,811 libraries Carnegie established in the English speaking world.