Sunday, October 31, 2010
Today is Sunday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2010. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween.
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On this date in:
1517: Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1860: Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, is born in Savannah, Ga.
1864: Nevada becomes the 36th state.
1926: Magician Harry Houdini dies in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.
1941: The Navy destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II.
1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hopes for fruitful peace negotiations.
1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.
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1985: Saying the “war against crime is a war that must be fought on many fronts,” Congressman James A. Traficant Jr. urges congressional support for his legislation that would require states to implement registration of all firearms.
Kirby Grant, the actor who played “Sky King” on the TV series of that name dies in an automobile accident on a Florida highway while driving to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch of the space shuttle Challenger at the invitation of the shuttle’s crew. He was 73.
Sergio Franchi will entertain at the 7th annual Boys Town of Italy benefit held at the VIP Entertainment Complex in Niles.
1970: Rain slicked pavement and poor visibility are blamed for a number of Youngstown area accidents in which at least 17 people were injured.
Thomas Boswell, 86, dies of injuries sustained in a fire in the second floor bedroom of the Frank Weaver home on Jackson Street in Campbell.
Chaney High squeezes out a 2-0 victory over East with a safety in the fourth quarter of what had been a scoreless game.
1960: A charter plane that crashed on takeoff at the Toledo airport, killing 22 people, including 16 members of the California Polytechnic football team, was the same Arctic Pacific plane that had carried Youngstown University’s team from New Haven, Conn., to Youngstown hours earlier.
The Rev. Edwin P. Booth, professor of historical theology at Boston University, describes the life of Martin Luther during the 1960 Reformation Festival at Stambaugh Auditorium, attended by Protestants of 110 district churches and including a procession of 900 choristers and 200 clergy.
Additional police will be on duty in Youngstown and in much of Mahoning County to guard against Halloween night vandalism.
1935: Mary Griffin, 23, of Wilson Avenue, Struthers, is the area’s newest aviatrix, having completed 20 hours in the air. She describes flying as a great sport, one in which women may participate as well as men.
The queen and her court will reign over the West Siders Halloween frolic. They are Rita Anderson, Lillian Clark, Janice Barret and Velma Straube.
Robert Ramsdell, manager of the East Ohio Gas Co. narrowly escapes being hit by two bullets on Kiwatha Road, about the same time that a mysteriously sniper wounded Calvin Jones, 10, near the boy’s Foster Street home.
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