YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Oct. 12, the 285th day of 2014. There are 80 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1492: Christopher Columbus arrives with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.

1864: Roger B. Taney, the fifth chief justice of the United States, dies at 87; he is succeeded by Salmon Chase.

1870: Gen. Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, Va., at age 63.

1915: English nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Germans in occupied Belgium during World War I.

1933: Bank robber John Dillinger escapes from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who kill the sheriff, Jess Sarber.

1942: During World War II, American naval forces defeat the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance.

1973: President Richard Nixon nominates House minority leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.

1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escapes an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.

1994: The Magellan space probe ends its four-year mapping mission of Venus, apparently plunging into the planet’s atmosphere.

1999: Pakistan’s military overthrows the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

NBA Hall-of-Famer Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain dies at his Los Angeles home at age 63.

2000: Seventeen sailors are killed in a suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen.

2002: Bombs blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants destroy a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians and seven Americans.

2009: A suicide car bombing near a market in northwestern Pakistan kills 41.

Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson wins the Nobel economics prize.

Addressing the Northern Ireland Assembly, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urges rival leaders of the power-sharing government to keep making their coalition work for the sake of lasting peace.

2013: Cyclone Phailin strikes the east coast of India, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in crop damage; some four dozen people are believed to have died.

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1989: A three-judge panel finds Warren D. Spivey guilty of the aggravated murder of real estate agent Veda Vesper and will have to decide whether he receives the death penalty.

U.S. Rep. Michael De- Wine, R-Ohio, who as a state senator was the chief sponsor of a 1981 law that imposed a mandatory 3-year sentence for committing a felony while possessing a firearm, says the law will survive despite an adverse ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court. The court ruled that a prosecutor must be able to prove that the gun was operable.

The Ohio State Medical Board votes to revoke the license of Youngstown plastic surgeon Dr. Richard D. Murray for improperly prescribing steroids and growth hormones.

1974: Jonathan M. Moore, 32, of Cohasset Drive, Youngstown, who bolted from a courtroom at the federal court building in downtown Cleveland while awaiting results of a pre-trial conference on two bank robbery charges, is shot and wounded by a federal marshal.

Boardman’s Maureen McGovern, nationally known for her recording of “The Morning After,” thrills 2,000 Youngstown area residents at Powers Auditorium during a concert sponsored by the Federal Plaza Dedication Committee and the Youngstown Symphony Society.

The Rev. Howard E. Nolte is installed as pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, 250 Sexton St., Struthers.

1964: Eddie Cantor, banjo-eyed comic, dies of a heart attack at his Beverly Hills Home at the age of 72.

The estate of the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who died in April, is appraised at $2 million. Mrs. MacArthur is sole heir to the estate.

Shirley Ann Permentine, 16, is killed when her car leaves McDonald- Ohltown Road and crashes into a culvert and retaining wall.

1939: Sister Mary Francis of the Ursuline Order, who educated some of the area’s most prominent men at St. Columba School, is honored for 50 years as a nun during a celebration attended by hundreds at Ursuline High School.

Youngstown Mayor Lionel Evans issues a proclamation honoring Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt when she comes to Youngstown on Oct. 27 to speak on “The Relation of the Individual to the Community” at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Madame Franka Gordon de Jurgielewicz of New York City, Polish-American musician who is visiting Atty. and Mrs. John Willo, 324 Crandall Ave., Youngstown, says the first month of the European war has claimed the lives of 27 close relatives, most of them during the siege of Warsaw.