Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2011. There are 84 days left in the year.

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1871: The Great Chicago Fire erupts; fires also break out in Peshtigo, Wisc., and in several communities in Michigan.

1918: U.S. Army Cpl. Alvin C. York leads an attack that killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 others in the Argonne Forest in France.

1934: Bruno Hauptmann is indicted by a grand jury in New Jersey for murder in the death of the son of Charles A. Lindbergh.

1956: Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5, 2-0.

1957: The Brooklyn Baseball Club announces it is accepting an offer to move the Dodgers from New York to Los Angeles.

1970: Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

1981: At the White House, President Ronald Reagan greets former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, who were preparing to travel to Egypt for the funeral of Anwar Sadat.

2001: The United States pounds terrorist targets in Afghanistan from the air for a second night. An SAS airliner taking off from Milan, Italy, hit a private jet, careened into an airport building and exploded, killing 118 people.

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1986: The Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. ins making a bold move into retailing with a planned $3.4 acquisition of Allied Stores Corp., the nation’s 12th largest department store chain.

The Youngstown Employment and Training Corp. meets all seven benchmarks established by the Job Training Partnership-Ohio for the second year in a row, qualifying it for $250,000 in bonus money.

Elizabeth Hughey, widow of 1st Ward Councilman Richard Hughey, is named by Democratic precinct committee members to succeed her husband, becoming the first woman to hold a seat on Youngstown City Council

1971: Youngstown police file armed robbery charges against a 30-year-old Canfield man and his 22 year-old wife in the robbery of the News Center at 1317 Market St. and the Southway News and Dairy at 2112 South Ave.

Seventy-six Youngstown public school administrators notify the Board of Education that they have formed a professional association separate from the Youngstown Education Association.

1961: President John F. Kennedy tells New Jersey newspaper publishers that the administration is working on a plan that would allow individual homeowners to get fallout shelters for no more than $100 to $150 apiece.

At 104 years of age, Youngstown’s Lulu Danley still knows her way around the kitchen and is known for the hoe-cakes (or jonnycake) she makes from an old family recipe.

Lt. Col Richard J. Bestor, head of the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Youngstown University, is promoted to full colonel.

1936: A campaign argument about jail breaks erupts between Sheriff Ralph Elser and his predecessor and rival, William J. Engelhardt after Engelhardt comments on the escape of three prisoners. Eleven escaped during Engelhardt’s tenure, says Deputy Robert Stone.

A mysterious earth disturbance shakes the vicinity of Albert and McHenry streets. Several people, including Flora Cafaro at 1010 McHenry, said furniture moved. Western Union said there were no reports of an earthquake, leading to the belief that a local mine may have collapsed.

About 98 wooden chairs valued at $200 are stolen from the YMCA by two men who said they were for the Eucharistic Congress held in Youngstown in September, but never returned with the chairs.

More than 1,200 General Electric Co. employees in the Mahoning Valley (510 in Youngstown, 300 in Niles and 400 in Warren) will receive pay increases of 2 percent, an official of the Youngstown Mazda Lamp Co. in Youngstown says.