Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2011. There are 70 days left in the year.

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1746: Princeton University is first chartered as the College of New Jersey.

1797: French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet over Paris.

1811: Composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt is born in the Hungarian town of Raiding in present-day Austria.

1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.

1928: Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover speaks of the “American system of rugged individualism” in a speech at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

1934: Bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio.

1962: President John F. Kennedy announces a quarantine of all offensive military equipment shipped to Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet-built missile bases on the island.

1979: The U.S. government allows the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment — a decision that precipitates the Iran hostage crisis.

1981: The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.

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1986: The committee to re-elect Gov. Richard F. Celeste says it has no plans to interfere with publication of a display advertisement circulated to 23 daily newspapers in Ohio that has a headline, “Why homosexuals support Celeste.”

McDonald Welding & Machine Co. and U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, file suit to block the Navy from proceeding with a contract with a Pennsylvania company for construction of 337 mobile units.

1971: Common Pleas Judge Sidney J. Rigelhaupt recommends that city teachers receive a pay increase from $6,700 per year to $7,000 if and when the money becomes available, but he heavily criticizes teachers for a recent one-day strike.

Issues of crime and fiscal responsibility lead the focus of the mayoral campaign as Republican Mayor Jack C. Hunter and his Democratic challenger, former Mayor Frank R. Franko, debate at the Ohio Hotel before Youngstown Rotarians.

Peter J. Bellino, 44, of Girard, popular golf professional and widely known member of the Bellino golfing family, dies of a heart attack at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

1961: Youngstown Superintendent Harry Wanamaker says the city school district has no plans to go to half-day sessions at Chaney High School in response to overcrowding. Chaney will graduate 180 in June and anticipates 400 freshmen in September.

Mayor Frank R. Franko, Democrat, and Atty. Harry Savasten, his Republican challenger, discuss their plans to create jobs during the annual Downtown Kiwanis pre-election meeting at the YMCA.

1936: Republic Steel Corp. announces that millions of dollars from a $25 million bond sale will be spent in the Youngstown area, primarily on rebuilding blast furnaces and coke ovens

Some 400 bankers from big and small cities and country towns gather at the Youngstown Country Club for the annual meeting of Group 9 of the Ohio Bankers Association.

An explosion from a dynamite bomb shatters the windows of a small confectionery store operated by Milan Stefanoff at 912 Salt Spring Road.