YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2014. There are 63 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, is executed in London.

1787: The opera “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has its world premiere in Prague.

1901: President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.

1929: Wall Street crashes on “Black Tuesday,” heralding the start of America’s Great Depression.

1940: Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson draws the first number — 158 — in America’s first peacetime military draft.

1956: Israel invades Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.

“The Huntley-Brinkley Report” premieres as NBC’s nightly television newscast.

1964: Thieves make off with the Star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (The Star and most of the other gems were recovered; three men were convicted of stealing them.)

1979: On the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters try but fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

1987: Following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan announces his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that falls apart over revelations of Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use.

Jazz great Woody Herman dies in Los Angeles at age 74.

1994: Francisco Martin Duran fires more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House. (Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President Bill Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.)

1998: Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, at age 77, roars back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.

2012: Superstorm Sandy comes ashore in New Jersey and slowly marches inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the storm and its aftermath are blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Warren Western Reserve High wins the last of the Reserve-Warren Harding football face-offs, 42-6, before 10,000 fans at Mollenkopf Stadium. The game ended a perfect 8-0 season for the Raiders and gave Coach Phil Annarella his first All American Athletic Conference championship.

Jack Harbaugh, head coach of the Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky, says his team’s 41-38 victory over Youngstown State University was the greatest football game he’s ever been associated with. The game snapped a five-game winning streak by Coach Jim Tressel’s Penguins.

Youngstown plastic surgeon Dr. Richard D. Murray, whose medical license was revoked for prescribing steroids and growth hormones to enhance athletic ability, says the Ohio State Medical Board epitomizes the tyranny of the state over the free-thinking individual.

1974: Sales of steel and related products by Lykes-Youngstown Corp. total $420 million in the third quarter of 1974, compared to $270 million for the same period a year earlier.

A 25-year-old Austintown man has been charged with theft of a valuable stamp collection from the office of Dr. Richard Murray, which was firebombed Oct. 22.

Steubenville, Ohio, and four surrounding counties are under an air pollution alert as a stagnant air mass traps pollution over the area.

1964: Former Vice President Richard Nixon urges a crowd of 2,500 Republicans at the Packard Music Hall in Warren to get out the vote for presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

Harold H. Burton, retired U.S. Supreme Court justice, dies in Washington at age 76. Burton, a former mayor of Cleveland and Republican senator from Ohio, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Harry S. Truman in 1945 and served until 1958.

Laurin D. Woodworth, general superintendent of the U.S. Steel Corp.’s Youngstown operations, will be honored on his retirement at a dinner at the Youngstown Country Club. Woodworth graduated from South High and later from Carnegie Tech.

1939: A former Sebring High athlete, Louis Cardinal, is in his third season at Kent State University, where he is captain and quarterback of the football team. At Sebring he won letters in football, basketball, track and baseball.

The Butler Art Institute announces the addition of 34 original Japanese prints to its permanent collection, a gift from an anonymous donor.

The WPA in Washington informs U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of the construction of new fire houses in Youngstown’s 5th and 7th wards, at a cost of $41,296.