Years Ago

October 26, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2010. There are 66 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1825: The Erie Canal opens in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.

1942: Japanese planes badly damage the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during World War II. (The Hornet sinks early the next morning.)

1958: Pan American Airways flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in 8 hours and 41 minutes.

1970: The comic strip “Doonesbury,” by Garry Trudeau, is first syndicated.

1994: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan sign a peace treaty during a ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Bill Clinton.

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1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says that President Ronald Reagan’s “Disney World economic and trade policies” forced LTV Steel Tubular Products Co. to shut down its pipe mill plant in Youngstown, at a cost of 300 local jobs.

The Youngstown Fire Department is brought up to full strength with the swearing in of nine new cadet firemen.

1970: Jon Rawson, a senior biology student at Youngstown State University and an aggressive antipollution organizer, will be one of four speakers at the First National Biological Congress in Detroit.

A crowd of 400 greets sportscaster Chris Schenkel at the ninth annual Curbstone Coaches Hall of Fame-Heart Fund banquet at the Idora Park Ballroom.

1960: The Vindicator straw poll of Boardman Township, Youngstown’s most populous suburb, indicates that Vice President Richard M. Nixon will carry that normally Republican area with a 2-1 vote over Democrat John F. Kennedy.

About 130 Youngstown area Camp Fire Girls celebrate the 50th anniversary of their organization at Cleveland School.

1935: The Vindicator endorses park commissioner Lionel Evans in a crowded mayoral race that includes William B. Spagnola, police prosecutor; Harry Callan, fire chief, and Michael J. Kirwan, city councilman.

Mrs. Lilly Brooks, mother of boxer Joe Louis, gives a check of $269 to the Detroit welfare department, a voluntary repayment for aid given her family during seven months in 1927-28. She said she’s happy to be able to repay the department.