YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2014. There are 65 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, is published.

1858: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is born in New York City.

1880: Theodore Roosevelt marries his first wife, Alice Lee.

1904: The first rapid transit subway, the IRT, is inaugurated in New York City.

1922: The first celebration of Navy Day takes place.

1938: Du Pont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”

1947: “You Bet Your Life,” starring Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC Radio. (It later became a television show on NBC.)

1954: U.S. Air Force Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is promoted to brigadier general, the first black officer to achieve that rank in the USAF.

Walt Disney’s first television program, titled “Disneyland” after the yet-to-be completed theme park, premieres on ABC.

1962: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft is shot down while flying over Cuba, killing the pilot, U.S. Air Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr.

1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.

1980: Opera star Beverly Sills gives her last public performance during a farewell gala at New York’s Lincoln Center.

1995: A sniper kills one soldier and wounds 18 others at Fort Bragg, N.C.

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1989: The Cafaro Co. threatens to abandon plans to build a hangar at Youngstown Municipal Airport unless the city comes up with an acceptable land lease within 30 days.

FNB Corp. of Hermitage signs a letter of intent to acquire Dollar Savings Association, a New Castle savings and loan, for $10.2 million.

A complaint from the Youngstown School District about a former city player’s eligibility could threaten Campbell Memorial High’s 8-1 season. After being declared academically ineligible in Youngstown, the player transferred to Campbell, which has lower eligibility standards.

1974: An inspection of the Oakland Avenue Viaduct in Sharon shows that it is structurally sound, although some of the concrete is scaling from its arches.

A survey of Veterans Administration hospitals shows the quality of patient care is often limited by staffing and space deficiencies, but found no case in which a patient’s life was jeopardized by lack of care.

The Smith MacDonald Realty Co. Aces, a Youngstown team that won the World’s Girls Basketball Championship in 1923, is enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, Naismith Memorial, in Springfield, Mass.

1964: Meeting in Columbus, the American Lutheran Church says commercialism, tax-dodging and lotteries damage integrity and “impoverishes spiritual life.”

An extra dividend of 25 cents a share, plus a quarterly dividend of 25 cents and stock dividend of 5 percent, is declared by Commercial Shearing & Stamping Co.

1939: Meeting with reporters at the Ohio Hotel at the beginning of her visit to Youngstown, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt says forbidding married women to teach is “perfectly foolish,” and there should be no discrimination against married women in business.

“I’ve murdered my husband,” Mrs. Catherine Smythe, 35, tells Youngstown police in a phone call. Her estranged husband, Henry, 41, a timekeeper at the city barns, was found on a mattress in the front room of her home, his head smashed by a hammer.

About 500 workers flee from the Trumbull light division plant of General Electric Co. in Warren after three hydrogen cylinders on a truck explode while the gas was being discharged into the plant. One man was seriously burned.