YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2015. There are 91 days left in the year.

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1908: Henry Ford introduces his Model T automobile to the market.

1932: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees makes his supposed called shot, hitting a home run against Chicago’s Charlie Root in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the World Series, won by the New York Yankees 7-5 at Wrigley Field.

1939: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill describes Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” in a radio address on the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

1940: The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike opens to the public, stretching 160 miles from Carlisle to Irwin.

1957: The motto “In God We Trust” begins appearing on U.S. paper currency.

1971: Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Fla.

2014: Secret Service Director Julia Pierson abruptly resigns in the face of multiple revelations of security breaches, bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family are being kept safe.

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1990: Republican gubernatorial candidate George Voinovich has an 11-point lead over Democrat Anthony Celebrezze Jr., according to the Ohio Poll.

Joseph H. Dickey Jr. of North Lima and Arthur T. Reeves of East Palestine are elected to receive the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry.

Youngstown City Council’s Safety Committee summons Police Chief Randall Wellington to respond to reports of racial and sexual discrimination in the department and to answer accusations that ranking officers are receiving special privileges.

1975: The wife and three children of William E. Schulenberg, a former top executive at GM’s Packard Electric Division in Warren, are released unharmed after he paid $54,000 to abductors at their Ann Arbor, Mich., home.

A Mahoning County grand jury indicts five prisoners in the county jail on charges connected to the county jail-sex scandal.

The 7th District Court of Appeals upholds a lower court ruling, which allowed the Youngstown Board of Education to initiate its voluntary school transfer plan for students to correct social imbalance.

1965: Ralph Wilkoff, Youngstown business and civic leader who was nationally prominent in the insurance field, is killed in a car-truck collision in Route 18 a mile west of Route 46.

John P. Marsh of Youngstown is one of 30 Ohioans picked to receive the 33rd Degree from the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

John V. McCarthy, 6th Ward councilman, is named district sales manager of the Aluminum Fence Co. of America, a subsidiary of Saramar Aluminum Co. of Warren.

1940: In the absence of Mayor William Spagnola, a Democrat, acting Mayor Arthur R. Gundry, a Republican, closes City Hall for the time during which Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie is in downtown Youngstown so employees can attend his address.

The Mahoning County Marriage License Bureau expects to break all records for issuing licenses in 1940, with 1,693 already issued, only 55 short of the 1926 record.

Motorists willing to pay tolls to avoid tortuous routes over the Allegheny Mountains, roll over Pennsylvania’s 160-mile “dream highway,” hailed by its builders as the forerunner of a nationwide network of super highways.