Years Ago

October 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2010. There are 64 days left in the year.

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1636: The General Court of Massachusetts passes a legislative act establishing Harvard College.

1858: Rowland Hussey Macy opens his first New York store in Manhattan.

1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

1919: Congress enacts the Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.

1940: Italy invades Greece during World War II.

1958: The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is elected Pope; he takes the name John XXIII.

1980: President Jimmy Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan face off in a nationally broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland.

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1985: William Phillis, assistant state superintendent of schools, says troubled city school districts like Youngstown must compete with poor rural and suburban districts for funding from the Ohio Department of Education.

A group of hotel and motel operators in Mahoning and Trumbull counties calls for the consolidation of the visitors and convention bureaus in the two counties.

Warren Sculptor Csaba Kur works on restoration of the bronze statue of Louis Kossuth, former president of Hungary and a 19th century freedom fighter, that was originally erected in University Circle Park in Cleveland in 1902.

1970: Apparent low bids for construction of the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School on Palmyra Road in Canfield Township total $4.1 million, about $600,000 below estimates.

Arson is suspected in a fire that destroys the One Hour Martinizing dry cleaning shop on Kennedy Square in New Castle, Pa. Damage is estimated at $65,000.

1960: The Vindicator’s straw poll of rural Mahon ing County townships shows Republican Richard Nixon winning the area 2-1 over Democrat John F. Kennedy.

While praising the work done by a charter revision commission, the directors of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce announce their opposition to voter approval of the Charter changes, especially a provision that would allow city council to remove a member by a two-thirds vote.

1935: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church celebrates the 40th anniversary of the pastorate of Dr. John F.C. Soller. The congregation surprises him with the gift of a 1936 automobile.

Ohio’s state liquor store employees will get three special holidays during November, election day Nov. 5, Armistice Day Nov. 11 and Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28.