Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2011. There are 79 days left in the year.

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1307: King Philip IV of France orders the arrests of Knights Templar on charges of heresy.

1843: The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith is founded in New York City.

1944: American troops enter Aachen, Germany, during World War II.

1974: Longtime television host Ed Sullivan dies in New York City at age 73.

1981: Voters in Egypt participate in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

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1986: Liberty Township Police Chief James Cerenelli retires after 25 years service, the first township officer to reach full retirement.

Thomas Petzinger Jr., deputy chief of the Wall Street Journal’s Houston bureau, will give the keynote address at the Youngstown Better Business Bureau’s annual dinner at the MetroPlex Centre.

1971: The Liberty Township trustees, facing an $80,000 deficit in 1971, ask State Auditor Joseph Ferguson to conduct an audit.

Members of the Youngstown police vice section arrest two men on charges of possession of football pool tickets and confiscate $2,400. Sgt. Randall Wellington, vice section chief, said the arrests followed a month of surveillance.

1961: A Pennsylvania Railroad freight train crashes into a car near the Sharon Steel Corp. crossing on Lowellville-Struthers Road, but the three occupants, Robert Barber, Reese Moore and James Brown, miraculously escape serious injury.

1936: Thousands of home-bound automobiles and many buses and street cars are entangled in a stubborn traffic knot for more than an hour when Commerce Street between W. Federal and Chestnut becomes blocked by a broken down street car.

Joseph McHenry of Youngstown is named state president of the Federation of Republican Industrial Employees Clubs.