YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2014. There are 66 days left in the year.

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1774: The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

1825: The Erie Canal opens in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.

1861: The legendary Pony Express officially ceases operations, giving way to the transcontinental telegraph.

1881: The “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” takes place in Tombstone, Ariz.

1949: President Harry S. Truman signs a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.

1958: Pan American Airways flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in 8 hours and 41 minutes.

1972: National security adviser Henry Kissinger declares, “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam.

1974: Five bombs explode at business sites in midtown Manhattan and Wall Street, injuring no one.

1984: “Baby Fae,” a newborn with a severe heart defect, is given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. (Baby Fae lived 21 days with the animal heart.)

“The Terminator,” a science-fiction movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a killer cyborg from the future, is released by Orion Pictures.

1994: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan sign a peace treaty during a ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Bill Clinton.

2009: A U.S. military heli- copter crashes while returning from the scene of a firefight with suspected Taliban drug traffickers in western Afghanistan, killing 10 Americans, including three DEA agents.

2013: A Phoenix man goes on a rampage, shooting to death four members of a family who live next door to him, along with their two dogs, before turning the gun on himself; authorities speculated that the incessant noise of barking dogs drove Michael Guzzo to kill.

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1989: State and local officials talk about jobs and other benefits for the Warren area at the ground-breaking for the $35 million Trumbull Correctional Institution, but about 20 anti- prison protesters picket outside the future site of the prison on Warren’s southwest side.

Sharon Steel Corp.’s bankruptcy trustee says the company needs a capital investment program “well in excess of $100 million” if it is to become a profitable operation again.

A well-dressed Washington man mumbling about earthquakes and the “start of Revelations” punches U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, in the jaw before the 68-year-old Glenn grabbed him and turned him over to security guards at the Smithsonian Institution, where Glenn was being interviewed by a TV reporter.

1974: Tear gas is used to hold off a large disgruntled group of youths who attacked Chaney High School students boarding their bus following the Rayen-Chaney football game at Rayen Stadium.

A strike by Teamsters Local 377 continues at the Lordstown General Motors complex as employees of Anchor Motor Freight refuse to go back to work unless the company states in writing there will be no reprisals for a wildcat strike.

Enrollment at Ohio State University sets a record of 49,275, an increase of 4.2 percent over the fall 1973 numbers.

1964: The block-long J.J. Dean Co. wholesale grocery warehouse in downtown New Castle, Pa., is gutted by fire.

Editorial: Cleveland and Ashtabula interests that are lobbying for a Lake Erie-Ohio River Canal to be built through their area or not at all are showing shortsightedness. The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the best route would utilize a 30-mile reservoir through the Grand River Valley.

Dry weather continues to make problems as 15 grass fires are reported in one day. One fire spread to three garages at a loss of $800.

1939: John C. Gall, an authority on legal phases of the New Deal legislation, tells 350 people at a Youngstown Chamber of Commerce forum that there will soon be a court test of the wage and hours law and the Wagner labor relations law will be amended by the next Congress.

Arthur H. Williams, Republican endorsed candidate for mayor, says he will lower Youngstown’s municipal taxes and launch an “Own Your Own Home” campaign.

Charles F. Lee, superintendent of the Mahoning County home for 34 years, and Mayme Lee, 55, his wife and matron of the home for 37 years, tender their resignations. Lewis Seaborn, investigator for the county commissioners for three years, is named to succeed Lee, and his wife will be the matron.