YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2014. There are 84 days left in the year.

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1869: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, N.H.

1871: The Great Chicago Fire erupts; fires also break out in Peshtigo, Wisc., and in several communities in Michigan.

1914: The World War I song “Keep the Home Fires Burning,” by Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford, is first published in London under the title “Till the Boys Come Home.”

1934: Bruno Hauptmann is indicted by a grand jury in New Jersey for murder in the death of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

1944:“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” starring Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, debuts on CBS Radio.

1945: President Harry S. Truman announces that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.

1956: Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5, 2-0.

1957: The Brooklyn Baseball Club announces it is accepting an offer to move the Dodgers from New York to Los Angeles.

1967: Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee dies in London at age 84.

1970: Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

1982: All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, are banned.

1992: Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt dies in Unkel, Germany, at age 78.

2004: In a testy debate rematch, President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry quarrel over the war in Iraq, jobs, education, health care, abortion, the environment, cheaper drugs and tort reform at a town-hall session in St. Louis.

2013: The White House says President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the nation’s central bank.

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1989: For the first time, the Soviet Union is sending a team of runners to Youngstown’s International Peace Race.

Mahoning County Auditor George Tablack asks county officials to consider a policy that would give equal across-the-board raises to employees in all county departments. Currently employees in some departments get higher raises.

Seven Youngstown area high school seniors are among 1,500 semifinalists for 1990 National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Negro Students: Blaine A. Martyn-Dow, Elizabeth J. Johnson, Angela R. Logan, H. Donald Murphy III, Michael A. Sick, Tiffani R. Reeves and Major J. Simmons.

1974: Members of the Downtown Merchants Division of the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce announce their support for a proposed 1.74-mill levy for a proposed community indoor swimming pool.

The first Astre, Pontiac’s sister to the Chevrolet Vega, rolls of the assembly line at the Lordstown General Motors plant. The line will produce 76 Vegas and 24 Astres an hour.

An East Delason Avenue landlord is the first property owner in Youngstown jailed for not making repairs to his rental property that were ordered under a 1973 city ordinance. Judge Leo P. Morley sentence the man to 15 days in jail.

1964: Twelve district law graduates are among the 90 percent of the prospective attorneys who passed the Ohio bar examination.

The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Yankees, 9-5, in the World Series opener at St. Louis.

1939: Reflecting industrial and business increases, street car and bus pass sales have increased by 2,000 in the last five weeks, says William H. Muldoon, general manager of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co.

The Niles Presbyterian Church will observe its 100 th anniversary with a full week of services beginning Oct. 15.

Three Bettys are candidates for homecoming queen at Mount Union College’s annual homecoming. They are Betty Geltz, Betty Anderson and Betty Wagennals.