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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2011. There are 87 days left in the year.

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1892: The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, is practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan.

1921: The World Series is covered on radio for the first time as Newark, N.J., station WJZ relays reports from the Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants were facing the New York Yankees. (Although the Yankees won the opener, 3-0, the Giants won the series, 5 games to 3.)

1931: Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon fly non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, from Japan to Washington state in 41 hours.

1941: Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis — the first Jewish member of the nation’s highest court — dies in Washington at 84.

1947: President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis.

1953: Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

1970: British trade commissioner James Richard Cross is kidnapped in Canada by Quebec separatists; he is released the following December.

1988: Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasts Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

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October 5, 1986: While most communities are tightening their budget belts because of revenue losses, the village of Lordstown continues to enjoy an abundance of capital improvements money, including that needed to develop a 45-acre village park at a cost of $1.5 million.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Sylvester Hladky celebrates 50 years as a priest, 40 of them at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Warren.

Gov. Richard F. Celeste appoints Judge Douglas A. Jenkins to fill the vacant seat on the Columbiana County Common Pleas court.

The World Wrestling Federation returns to the Packard Music Hall with an all-star card, including Randy “Macho Man” Savage, who will defend his Intercontinental title against Honky Tonk Man.

1971: A 19-year-old East High senior is accused of shooting a 17-year-old student and a 23-year-old man in a field behind the school.

The Rt. Rev. John H. Burt, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, addresses a dinner meeting of the Episcopal clergy and vestries of the Youngstown and Ohio Valley Regions of the diocese at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.

World renowned oceanographer Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus, former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg and TV writer and producer Rod Serling are booked for Youngstown State University’s 1971-72 Artist Lecture Series.

Two 13-year-old Boardman youths, Philip Desing and Thomas Remick, receive Eagle Scout awards at the Bethel Lutheran Church, where both are members of Troop 27.

1961: Youngstown City Council balks at approving Mayor Frank R. Franko’s request that a trained criminologist be hired to study the city’s crime problem.

Repeal of city ordinances on horse betting, bookmaking and possession of lottery slips moves one step closer. Proponents say repeal would force police to make arrests on stricter state statutes prohibiting gambling.

Milton I. Wick, publisher of the Niles Daily Times, announces sale of the Times and the Girard News and Hubbard News to Lee Stauffer, a Danville, Pa., newspaperman.

Five police agencies are investigating the shooting of ex-convict Isaac Blackshear, 32, by an auxiliary Ohio highway patrolman during a high-speed chase in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Blackshear is in serious condition at South Side Hospital.

1936: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge J.H.C. Lyons rules that an issue to repeal Youngstown’s city charter will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections expects registration to rise to 80,000, a record that is 5,00 more than those registered for the 1932 presidential election.

A fleet of 25 new trackless trolley coaches will be delivered to Youngstown no later than Oct. 20, says Ross Schramm, sales manager of the Twin Coach Co. of Kent, Ohio.