Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2011. There are 63 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier, poet and adventurer , is executed.

1901: President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.

1911: American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer, 64, dies in Charleston, S.C.

1929: Wall Street crashes on “Black Tuesday,” heralding the beginning of America’s Great Depression.

1956: During the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invades Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

1960: A chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team crashes on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board.

1979: On the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters try but fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

1998: Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roars back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: In the first of what he says will be a series of “white papers,” Thomas G. Krispli, president of the Youngstown Education Association, accuses board members of pushing their own pet agendas in a way that is “unorthodox, if not unethical.”

The U.S. General Services Administration awards a $2.2 million contract to GF Furniture Systems for 13,000 pieces of furniture, mostly desks, that will be made at GF’s Logan Avenue plant over a one year period.

Dr. Elias T. Saadi will be honored at a dinner at the Maronite Center. Among the speakers will be Lebanese Ambassador Abdalla Bouhabib and Bishop James W. Malone, of Youngstown, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

1971: The Youngstown Building Materials & Fuel Co. unveils a new machine that will recycle a major portion of its concrete mix, virtually eliminating pollution into Crab Creek from its operations.

Gov. John J. Gilligan dedicates Warren General Hospital’s new $3.5 million addition.

Youngstown Police Chief Donald Baker commends all cooperating agencies and the public for the success of drug sweeps of the city. City Council approves overtime payments of $4,900 to cover the cost of the raids.

1961: Federal agents swoop down on bookies in 13 cities, including Youngstown, where seven men, including longtime racketeer Sandy Naples, are arrested.

Six candidates seek three seats on the Youngstown Board of Education: Nicholas Bolkovac, Dr. J. Philip Davidson, Alice Lev, Dr. M.M. Szucs, Warren P. Williamson Jr. and Dr. Earl H. Young.

A young couple is jailed after an anonymous telephone call leads police to four small children huddled against their crippled grandmother in a cold and filthy house in Adams Street.

1936: U.S. Sen. Robert J. Bulkley tells a political rally at Youngstown South High School that some companies are misrepresenting the Social Security Law in an effort to scared employees into voting Republican.

The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. says it explains the effect that the Social Security Act will have on the company and its employees in the latest Sheet & Tube Bulletin.