Years Ago

Today is Monday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2011. There are 89 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: President George Washington declares Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving for the creation of the United States of America.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.

1941: In a Berlin speech, Adolf Hitler declares that Russia has been broken and will “never rise again.”

1951: The New York Giants capture the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hits a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ralph Branca in the “shot heard ’round the world.”

1961: “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” also starring Mary Tyler Moore, makes its debut on CBS.

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1986: A U.S. House committee authorizes a new study of a barge canal linking Lake Erie and the Ohio River through northeastern Ohio, but does not appropriate anything toward an expected cost of $8 million.

A General Motors spokesman confirms published reports that the No. 1 automaker will discuss with the United Auto Workers union drug and alcohol tests for hourly workers suspected of abuse.

1971: Lorin Maazel, 41, associate conductor of the New Philharmonic of London, is named conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, even though he received only two of 98 votes in a poll of orchestra members. Orchestra members had overwhelmingly supported another candidate for the job, Istzan Kertesz, principal conductor of the Cologne Opera in Germany.

Mahoning Valley residents report hordes of vile-tempered bees are not only bothering people outdoors, but are invading homes and buildings, including Poland Junior High School.

1961: Boardman Constable Don Stephenson surprises safecrackers at the Robert Hall Clothes building, 5326 Market St. They flee without opening the safe, which contained $3,000.

Three Democratic ward councilmen and the Trumbull County Democratic Party chairman are among those indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury that has been investing alleged graft in Warren’s multi-million dollar sewage system project.

1936: A broken water main in West Avenue floods the Sanitary Mattress Co. and an Ohio Bell Telephone Co. stockroom and leaves much of the city without water service or with low pressure.

Robert Burke of Youngstown files suit in New York supreme court to compel Columbia University to reinstate him as a student. He was expelled for participating in an anti-Nazi demonstration.