YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2015. There are 84 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1869: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, N.H.

1890: American aviation hero Eddie Rickenbacker is born in Columbus, Ohio.

1918: U.S. Army Cpl. Alvin C. York leads an attack that kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132 others in the Argonne Forest in France.

1945: President Harry S. Truman tells a press conference in Tiptonville, Tenn., that the secret scientific knowledge behind the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.

1957: The Brooklyn Baseball Club announces it is accepting an offer to move the Dodgers from New York to Los Angeles.

1967: Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee dies in London at age 84.

1970: Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for literature.

1982: All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, are banned.

1998: The House triggers an open-ended impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton in a momentous 258-176 vote; 31 Democrats join majority Republicans in opening the way for nationally televised impeachment hearings.

2005: Auto supplier Delphi Corp. files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Delphi emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2009.

An Associated Press Television News crew covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina videotapes three New Orleans police officers beating retired teacher Robert Davis. (Two of the officers involved were fired; one of them, Lance Schilling, committed suicide, while the other, Robert Evangelist, was cleared of battery and false imprisonment and reinstated to the police force.)

2010: Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo wins the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, prompting a furious response from China.

2014: President Barack Obama tells top military commanders at the Pentagon that he is confident the U.S. will keep making progress in its fight against the Islamic State group.

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1990: A scuffle on the New Castle Area Schools picket line sends two men to Jameson Memorial Hospital for treatment: Bernard Murrray, chief negotiator for the New Castle Federation of Teachers, and Anthony Mangino, a school security guard.

Area farmers are making a statement against roadside trash by sticking stamps on beverage cans and mailing them to state legislators.

The audience during a taping of the Phil Donahue TV talk show shouts down Atty. James Callen when he raises the issue of U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant’s ties to mobsters and boos Vic Rubenstein, a public-relations consultant, who brings up Traficant’s involvement in the cases of two Nazi war criminals.

1975: The Rev. Richard D. Speicher is appointed executive director of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches. He has been serving as interim director since the Rev. Norman Parr resigned.

Warren 8th Ward Councilman Frank Mahaffey, a Democrat, is supporting the re-election of Republican Mayor Arthur J. Richards over his Democratic challenger, Councilman Robert H. Roberts III.

Youngstown City Council halts its inquiry into the administration of the Youngstown Police Department after Police Chief Donald Baker files for a restraining order against council in U.S. District Court in Cleveland.

1965: Neighbors say two men broke into the Brittain Street home of Mary Donald, 74, about an hour after she fell from her porch step and suffered a fatal injury.

The unusual sculpture of Donald Drumm, an Akron artist formerly of Warren, will be on display at the fall opening of the museum at Wooster College’s Fine Arts Center.

Paul Merwin, editor and publisher of the East Palestine Daily Leader, sets Oct. 12 as the date for an open house at the newspaper’s new office and printing shop.

1940: Mahoning County voting registration reaches 104,000, making it the highest in the election board’s history.

Steel production jumps to 90 percent of capacity, the highest point of the year.

Mahoning County Engineer Robert J. Schomer announces a resolution seeking permission from Mahoning County commissioners to build a new bridge across the Mahoning River on Lake Park Road in Smith Township.

The Republic Steel Corp. will be forced to pay a minimum of $350,000 in vacation pay to employees reinstated after the Little Steel strike of 1937 under a recent ruling by the federal circuit court.