Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2014. There are 78 days left in the year.

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1066: Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English at the Battle of Hastings.

1586: Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)

1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, is born in Denison, Texas.

1908: The E.M. Forster novel “A Room With a View” is first published by Edward Arnold of London.

1912: Former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the White House as the Progressive (“Bull Moose”) candidate, goes ahead with a speech in Milwaukee after being shot in the chest by New York saloonkeeper John Schrank, declaring, “It takes more than one bullet to kill a bull moose.”

1944: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial and certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.

1947: Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

1960: Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggests the idea of a Peace Corps while addressing an audience of students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

1964: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev is toppled from power; he is succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as first secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as premier.

1977: Singer Bing Crosby dies outside Madrid, Spain, at age 74.

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1989: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says workers and managers at the Lordstown General Motors plant will have to earn the right to produce the 1994 model J-car.

A Dallas investors group, Haas & Partners, withdraws its offer to purchase Commercial Intertech Corp. of Youngstown.

An anonymous donor has given 14 silver Peace Dollars to be awarded to winners of the International Peace Race in Youngstown. The coins were minted in the mid-1920s.

1974: Highwaymen stop two cars and rob their occupants, one in Bissell Avenue near Ohio Avenue and one in Arlington Street near Belmont Avenue.

A 20-year-old man is arrested after a police chase that began when he drove his Jeep through Austintown Police Chief James Hazlett’s Elmwood Avenue yard and ended when the Jeep crashed in a cornfield at New Road and state Route 46.

A 17-year-old Campbell Memorial High School student is in custody as police and fire investigators seek a link between the arrest of four students for having marijuana and the firebombing of the principal’s office, which caused $75,000 in damage.

1964: Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge David Jenkins rules that the Mack Realty Co., a subsidiary of the Edward J. DeBartolo Co., has no grounds for seeking an injunction to block William Cafaro Associates from building a shopping mall on Market Street across from Boardman High School.

Pope Paul VI names the Most Rev. Clarence G. Issenmann, bishop of Columbus, to succeed Bishop Edward Hoban as leader of the Cleveland Diocese. Bishop Hoban has asked to be relieved of governing the diocese because of his age and health.

The Lake County Industrial Development Committee endorses a proposed 120-mile canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio River as a boon to industrial development throughout the area.

1939: A nude, partly burned torso is found in a swamp a few miles east of New Castle, Pa., and police are speculating on whether it belongs to the victim of a rackets murder or the Cleveland “torso slayer.”

A burglar at the Everth Fur Shop, 223 W. Federal St., is shot and wounded by a special officer of the ADT company, who responded to an alarm. Two accomplices escaped.

The Youngstown College Penguins match Dayton University play for play before 5,000 fans in Dayton but lose a heart-breaker, 13-12.