Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 23, the 297th day of 2012. There are 69 days left in the year.

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

1935: Mobster Dutch Schultz, 34, is shot and mortally wounded with three other men during a gangland hit at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, N.J. (Schultz dies the following day.)

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

1972: The musical “Pippin” opens on Broadway.

1983: Two hundred and forty-one U.S. service members, most of them Marines, are killed in a suicide truck-bombing 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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1987: Trumbull County Commissioner Anthony Latell tells an Ohio House subcommittee that local safety personnel need training to respond to accidents involving hazardous material.

Villa Maria High School, a Catholic prep school for girls, will open its doors to male students for the first time in September 1988.

1972: R. Sargent Shriver, Democratic vice presidential candidate, criticizes President Nixon for purported failures to carry out promises on the domestic and foreign fronts during a two-day swing through the Youngstown area.

Youngstown Superintendent Robert Pegues announces that board of education executive sessions will be open to the public, reversing an announced plan to hold closed meetings at which the board would hear complaints from small groups of people who would be the only outsiders allowed to attend.

1962: Youngstown’s man in the street, from all walks of life and political affiliations, express support for President John F. Kennedy’s armament quarantine of Cuba.

Nineteen Northern Columbiana County residents are named to the board of trustees of the Salem Academic Center of Kent State University during a meeting at Salem high school.

The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of Youngstown, is re-elected chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference legal department at the annual meeting of Roman Catholic bishops, which was held in Rome, where the bishops are attending the second Vatican Council.

1937: Some 400 city employees attend a rally at Ukrainian Hall at which they pledged loyalty to Mayor Lionel Evans and say they’ll campaign for four charter amendments and various tax issues on the November ballot.

George Davis, 46, of 31 N. Forest Ave., dies in South Side hospital of injuries suffered when he was beaten and robbed Oct. 10.

The Interstate Commerce Commission approves an increase in freight rates for coal, iron ore and scrap that will add $1 million a year to the cost of doing business for Youngstown district steel mils.