YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2014. There are 64 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1636: The General Court of Massachusetts passes a legislative act establishing Harvard College.

1776: The Battle of White Plains is fought during the Revolutionary War, resulting in a limited British victory.

1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

1914: Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, sparked World War I, is sentenced in Sarajevo to 20 years’ imprisonment (he died in 1918); four conspirators were sentenced to death. (Princip escaped the death penalty because he was underage.)

Medical researcher Jonas Salk, who developed the first successful polio vaccine, is born in New York.

1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

1958: The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is elected pope; he takes the name John XXIII.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Mahoning County Treasurer George Mc- Kelvey, whose family ran a department store on West Federal Street for years, says he will foreclose on the Higbee Building because the new owner is behind on taxes.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association rules that a Campbell Memorial High School player who transferred from Youngstown is eligible to play, preserving the Campbell football team’s 8-1 record.

Austintown Fitch clinches the Steel Valley Conference title with a 30-0 victory over Boardman.

1974: Michael McElroy of Tallmadge, Ohio, is shot and wounded after jumping the fence of the Mercer County Jail in an escape attempt.

A $50,000 fire guts the Ritz Bar at 750 Wilson Ave.

Youngstown Fire Chief George Panno warns city residents that leaf burning within the city limits is illegal and punishable by a fine of $25.

1964: U.S. Steel Corp. reports third quarter earnings of $55.1 million, the best since 1958.

McKay Machine Co. reports net sales are up 15 percent for the first nine months of the year. President A.J. Wardle says the company has a record backlog of over $30 million in orders.

1939: Every seat is filled and hundreds of people stand during an address at Stambaugh Auditorium by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Her talk was a plea for the individual to know his community and by knowing it, act for its betterment.

East takes the lead in the City Series, defeating South, 6-0, before 6,000 football fans at South High Stadium.

An estimated 1,000 Youngstown fans attend the Carnegie Tech-Notre Dame game in Pittsburgh. At least 400 filled special cars on an Erie-Pittsburgh & Lake Erie train. Notre Dame wins, 7-6, before 68,000 fans.