Years Ago

Today is Friday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2014. There are 89 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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1789: President George Washington declares Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.

1922: Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., becomes the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Senate (however, she ends up serving only a day).

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: R. Scott Krichbaum, lawyer for Warren D. Spivey, charged with aggravated murder of a South Side woman, says his client wants his case tried by a three-judge panel rather than a jury.

About 40 striking employees of Copperweld Steel Co. block the entrance to the company’s Warren plant after employees narrowly rejected a four-year contract proposal.

1974: Youngstown’s crime rate increased 8.2 percent in the first six months of 1974, while serious crime nationwide rose at a rate of twice that, 16 percent.

Michael Petrycki, 60, of Westgate Blvd. is awarded $247,000 for heart damage he says he suffered while trying to help an injured co-worker in the Youngstown & Northern Railroad Co. yards in McDonald. He said he suffered stress while helping a conductor whose hand got caught between two railroad cars.

Frank Robinson, the only man to ever win the most valuable player award in both the National and American leagues, is named player-manager of the Cleveland Indians.

1964: A strike by 20,000 United Auto Workers against General Motors, now in its second week, causes more Mahoning Valley layoffs. About 650 members of the International Union of Electrical Workers at GM’s Packard Electric Division in Warren are furloughed.

U.S. Court of Appeals upholds a ruling by a Dayton federal judge that Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was convicted of killing his wife in 1954, should remain free pending appeals.

1939: Youngstown Mayor Lionel Evans appoints 20 men and women to noncompetitive civil service positions in the city finance and water departments.

Sam Clarke, 52, a structural iron worker seriously injured in 1925 during construction of Stambaugh Auditorium, shoots and kills his wife, Anna, 51, at their Northwood Avenue home and then turns a shotgun on himself.