Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2011. There are 67 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1854: The “Charge of the Light Brigade” takes place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men charges the Russian army despite hopeless odds and suffers heavy losses.

1910: “America the Beautiful,” with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, is first published.

1971: The U.N. General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

1981: On the centenary of the birth of Pablo Picasso, the artist’s painting “Guernica” is returned to Spain after spending four decades in the possession of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

1986: In Game 6 of the World Series, the Boston Red Sox lose to the New York Mets, 6-5, on a wild pitch and an error in the tenth inning, forcing a seventh game, which the Mets end up winning.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Lordstown village officials are told that an access road to an auto loading terminal proposed in a referendum would cost $2.6 million and require five graded crossings over railroad tracks.

1971: A 13-week strike by 900 USW members at the Van Huffel Tube division of Youngstown Sheet & Tube ends with a ratification vote of 278-272.

Burglars enter through a back door and ransack the state liquor store in the McGuffey Plaza, taking an undetermined amount of liquor.

1961: Mahoning County deputy sheriffs swoop down on the city rounding up a group of 13 suspected prostitutes and gamblers, who were freed after questioning.

William C.H. Ramage, president and CEO of Valley Mould & Iron Corp., is named president of the Industrial Information Institute.

1936: Louis Schaefer, 56, assistant department superintendent of the Ohio Works of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., is fatally crushed by a municipal bus in South Avenue while hurrying to the golden jubilee of the Youngstown Lodge of Elks, of which he was a life member.