Years Ago

October 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2010. There are 69 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1910: Blanche S. Scott becomes the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Ind.

The Philadelphia Athletics win the World Series, defeating the Chicago Cubs in Game 5, 7-2.

1915: Tens of thousands of women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

1942: During World War II, Britain launches a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt.

1950: Entertainer Al Jolson dies in San Francisco at age 64.

1956: A student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule begins; as the revolution spreads, Soviet forces start entering the country, and the uprising is put down within weeks.

1973: President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over to Judge John J. Sirica White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor.

1980: The resignation of Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin is announced.

1983: A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon kills 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, are killed in; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces kills 58 paratroopers.

1987: The U.S. Senate rejects, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.

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1985: Copperweld Steel Corp. announces that 90 additional steelworkers will be laid off because of decline in business orders.

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro pledges that he will forge ahead with plans to streamline city government even though his recent furlough of 13 employees is being challenged.

B.J. Alan Fireworks Inc. is pursuing a deal with the Chinese government to package sparklers at its downtown Youngstown plant, which would create 100 jobs, says Bruce Zoldan, company president.

1970: Six employees of Campbell’s waste water treatment plant are unpaid as city council fails to transfer $20,000 into the department’s depleted accounts.

Youngstown police are searching for eight men identified as being part of a burglary ring responsible for the theft of more than $15,000 in office machines from three businesses.

1960: Republic Steel Corp. announces a gift of $47,500 to the Youngstown Area Community chest as the $1.2 million drive enters its final week.

Youngstown University hires 21 faculty members, including Charles H. Aurand, former instrumental director of Hiram College, as dean of Dana School of Music.

The Rayen School Key Club is canvassing the North Side seeking funds for new band uniforms.

1935: Two murder prisoners in Warren, Leroy Keith and Ray Jutila, saw through the bars of their cell with a blade later found in Jutila’s shoe, but the plan is foiled when a passing deputy sees Keith starting to climb through the opening.

Hellmuth Bauer, 21, of 134 W. Myrtle Ave., who graduated from South High School at 15 and from Hiram College three years later, leaves for Germany to complete his studies in medicine and surgery at the University of Berlin.