Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2011. There are 69 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1910: Blanche S. Scott becomes the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Ind.

1915: Tens of thousands of women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

1941: The Walt Disney animated feature “Dumbo” premieres in New York.

1956: A student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule begins; as the revolution spreads, Soviet forces start entering the country, and the uprising is put down within weeks.

1983: A suicide truck bomb kills 241 service members, most of them Marines at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces kills 58 paratroopers.

1987: The U.S. Senate rejects, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.

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1986: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is mediating a strike by United Steelworkers Local 8021 at Youngstown Welding and Engineering Co. Company President Frank Watson says he has suspended hiring replacement workers to improve the atmosphere.

Warren City Council halts the hiring of employees in the Municipal Court, but refuses to vote on a controversial measure to reduce the number of judges from two to one.

Teachers in Columbiana end their five-week strike, but the community remains divided and scarred, with some parents openly bitter.

1971: An increasing number of indictments is evidence that Youngstown’s crime clearance rate is improving, says Mayor Jack C Hunter, not evidence of more crime.

Youngstown’s share of a $1.6 million grant to Ohio to create public service jobs in high unemployment areas will be $475,000; it will create 48 jobs.

1961: Some 4,500 alumni, students and friends cheer Westminster College to a 28-7 Homecoming victory over St. Vincent College. Judith Shoup of Brunswick, Maine, is Homecoming Queen.

A bandit holds up a Youngstown Transit Co. bus driver at 5:20 a.m. on a Sunday morning, escaping with $80 in cash an d bus tokens.

1936: Helen Merva, 18, of Campbell is dead of injuries suffered when she jumped from a moving car and from an accident when the car in which she had been riding crashed into a pole on the way to the hospital. Two young men are in custody.

“If it costs a half million dollars to be governor of Ohio, I’ll never hold the job,” Atty. John Bricker, Republican nominee, tells a Youngstown crowd.

The demand for steel has every workable open hearth in the Youngstown district in operation and ingot production records are being broken.

The Youngstown Board of Education orders 8,000 tons of coal at $3.40 a ton from Superior Coal Co.