Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 24, the 298th day of 2012. There are 68 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1537: Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, dies 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI.

1861: The first transcontinental telegraph message is sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.

1901: Widow Anna Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1940: The 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

1962: A naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John F. Kennedy goes into effect during the missile crisis.

1972: Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, who’d broken Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, dies in Stamford, Conn., at age 53.

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1987: U.S. Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Navarre, speaking at the Trumbull County Giddings Club 100th anniversary at the Packard Music Hall, says stock market plunges and Persian Gulf skirmishes should not shake perceptions at home and abroad that Republican policies have strengthened America.

The Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency files a garnishment action against Girard’s bank account to recover $27,000 the agency says the city owes in back dues.

1972: The G.C. Murphy Co. opens its eighth Murphy’s Mart discount department store in Warren’s Elm Road Plaza. It includes a garden center, six-bay auto service center and a cafeteria.

Youngstown State University students elect Evie Kun the 1972 Homecoming Queen, with Nancy Little and Irene Papadakos the first and second runners-up.

1962: Plans for a new self-contained community of some 12,000 people in the McGuffey Heights area and a “miniature Mill Creek Park” around McKelvey Lake are unveiled by consultants for the developers.

Jim Bickerstaff is the new late model racing champion at Canfield Speedway.

The area registers its first snow fall of the season with a squall downtown and as much as 3 inches accumulation north of the city.

1937: Firemen are investigating what they say is the second attempt within two weeks to destroy the home of the late John W. Kuhns, former city service director, at 410 Oak Hill Ave.

Three famous artists, Reginald Marsh, Francis Speight and Malcolm Parcell, will be on the jury for the Butler Art Institute’s 1938 New Year Show.

Two Youngstown women are elected officers of the Ohio PTA during the state congress attended by 1,500 delegates in Cleveland. Mrs. Robert Marshall is named seventh vice president and Mrs. Charles C. Sullivan, the Northeast District director.