Years Ago

October 29, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2010. There are 63 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, is executed in London.

1901: President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.

1929: Wall Street crashes on “Black Tuesday,” heralding the beginning of America’s Great Depression.

1940: Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson draws the first number — 158 — in America’s first peacetime military draft.

1956: During the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invades Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

“The Huntley-Brinkley Report” premieres as NBC’s nightly television newscast.

1960: A chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team crashes on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board.

1966: The National Organization for Women is formally organized during a conference in Washington, D.C.

1979: On the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters try but fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

1998: Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roars back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.

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1985: A group of area businessmen is buying LTV Corp.’s property that borders the Mahoning River between South Avenue and the Market Street Bridge in Downtown Youngstown.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is complaining that public officials have failed to throw wholehearted support behind the proposed Lake-to-River canal project.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., a Cleveland based publishing company, reaches tentative agreement to buy Geauga Lake Park in Aurora, creating the possibility of a merger with nearby Sea World of Ohio.

1970: General Motors Corp., hit by sharply declining sales, posts its first losing quarter in 24 years, showing losses of $77 million.

Robert Taft Jr., GOP candidate for U.S. senator from Ohio, tells a Republican rally of 500 at Canfield High School that they should not “be confused by the happy grandfather image” of his opponent, Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, whom he describes as an ultra liberal.

The Food and Drug Administration announces the first recall of a product contaminated with poisonous mercury, 25,000 liver pills made from seals.

1960: Three Ursuline students are treated for injuries suffered in a brawl following Ursuline’s 32-14 victory over East at Rayen Stadium. (Youngstown Police Chief Frank Watters warns that if there is more trouble following games, he will ask that all city football games be played in the day.)

Burglars smash windows in the Ohlin Brothers Lumber and Hardware Corp. on Main Street in New Middletown and escape with an assortment of 17 guns valued at $1,200.

The proposed route of the Keystone Shortway extension through Trumbull County would block establishment of a major industry along the New York Central Railroad at Coalburg, says T.E. Reynolds, division superintendent for the railroad.

1935: Youngstown city detective Harry Rowe is fighting for his life in South Side Hospital with a bullet wound in his abdomen. Police and FBI agents in seven states are searching for suspects John Nazdan and Leo Harrison, who Rowe was attempting to question about a robbery.

Peter Zamaitis, 17, a tackle on the Alliance football team, dies of a ruptured bowel suffered in the fourth quarter of a game against Massillon.