YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2014. There are 87 days left in the year.

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1829: The 21st president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, is born in North Fairfield, Vt.

1864: French film pioneer Louis Lumiere is born in Besancon.

1921: The World Series is carried on radio for the first time as Newark, N.J., station WJZ relays a telephoned play-by-play account of the first game from the Polo Grounds. (Although the New York Yankees won the opener, 3-0, the New York Giants won the series, 5 games to 3.)

1931: Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan.

1947: President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address as he speaks on the world food crisis.

1953: Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

1969: The British TV comedy program “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” makes its debut on BBC 1.

1970: British Trade Commissioner James Richard Cross is kidnapped in Canada by militant Quebec separatists; he was released the following December.

1984: The space shuttle Challenger blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center on an eight-day mission; members of the crew include Kathryn D. Sullivan, who becomes the first American woman to walk in space, and Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut.

1988: Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasts Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

1989: A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicts former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.

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1989: Cardinal Laszio Paskai of Hungary, who is making a tour of the United States, celebrates Mass with Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone at St. Columba Cathedral.

Capt. Fred Moosally, a Youngstown native who was commanding officer of the USS Iowa when an explosion killed 47 men, is given a nonpunitive letter of admonition, which will not go into his service record.

The Mahoning County Democratic Party is cited by the state auditor for failing to maintain a separate account for $6,431 it received from the Ohio Democratic Party.

1974: The Rev. Maynard Stull, pastor of St. Luke’s Evangelical Church from 1937 to 1953, will be the guest speaker for the 75th anniversary service at the church.

Thousands of Youngs-towners converge on downtown for the dedication of the city’s new $2 million Federal Plaza that restructured the old Central Square.

Youngstown Auxiliary Bishop William A. Hughes welcomes Auxiliary Bishop Basil Losten of the Philadelphia Diocese of the Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church for the League of Ukrainian Catholics 36th annual National Convention being held in Youngstown.

1964: The Cleveland Browns defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 27-6.

The St. Louis Cardinals win the National League pennant by defeating the New York Mets, 11-5.

The New York Tribune endorses Lyndon Johnson for president, the first Democratic presidential candidate endorsed by the paper in its 124-year-history.

1939: Judge William Spagnola, campaigning for mayor, says, “I pledge to you, the people of Youngstown, I will smash the alliance between city hall and the overlords, the political bosses.”

Northbound vehicles on the Market Street Bridge will be allowed three lanes from 7 to 9 a.m. to speed traffic across the viaduct, Traffic Commissioner Clarence Coppersmith announces.

Ohio Bell Telephone Co. has two new buildings erected in connection with the installation of dial service, one at N. Main St. and Robbins Ave. in Niles and the other at State St. and Cox Lane in Girard.