YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2015. There are 83 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1514: Mary Tudor, the 18-year-old sister of Henry VIII, becomes queen consort of France upon her marriage to 52-year-old King Louis XII, who died less than three months later.

1776: A group of Spanish missionaries settles in present-day San Francisco.

1888: The public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.

1914: The Belgian city of Antwerp falls to German forces during World War I.

1934: King Alexander I of Yugoslavia is assassinated in Marseille, France, by a Macedonian gunman.

1940: Rock ’n’ roll legend John Lennon is born in Liverpool, England. (On this date in 1975, his son Sean was born in New York.)

1946: The Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opens at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.

1958: Pope Pius XII dies at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

1967: Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is killed by the Bolivian army a day after he was captured.

1975: Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1985: The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender two days after seizing the vessel in the Mediterranean. (Passenger Leon Klinghoffer was killed by the hijackers during the standoff.)

1995: A sabotaged section of track causes an Amtrak train, the Sunset Limited, to derail in Arizona; one person is killed and about 80 are injured (the case remains unsolved).

2009: President Barack Obama is named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee calls “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

2005: Dozens of foreign tourists flee devastated lakeside Mayan towns as Guatemalan officials say they would abandon communities buried by landslides caused by Hurricane Stan and declare them mass graveyards.

A driverless Volkswagen Touareg, designed by Stanford University, wins a $2 million race across the rugged Nevada desert, beating four other robot-guided vehicles that completed a Pentagon-sponsored contest aimed at making warfare safer for humans.

Actor-comedian Louis Nye dies in Los Angeles at age 92.

2010: Chile’s 33 trapped miners cheer and embrace one another as a drill punches into their underground chamber where they have been stuck for an agonizing 66 days.

The International Monetary Fund wraps up two days of talks in Washington without resolving deep differences over currency movements.

2014: Six U.S. military planes arrive in the Ebola hot zone with more Marines as West African leaders plead for the world’s help in dealing with what Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma describes as “a tragedy unforeseen in modern times.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer, 89, dies in Sonoma, Calif.

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1990: Warren Councilman John Bennett questions Mayor Daniel Sferra’s tough stance on enforcing the city’s residency law for municipal employees, accusing the mayor of “playing games” with residency enforcement in the past.

John Zabrucky, a 1965 Warren G. Harding High School graduate who makes futuristic props for Hollywood movies, including “Ghostbusters,” speaks to students at four Warren city schools.

The Rev. Michael Scanlan, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville, predicts that the sidewalk battle over abortion that occasionally flares into shouting matches and mass arrests, eventually might lead to deadly violence.

1975: Burglars who broke into the Jackson-Milton branch of Mahoning Bank flee after setting off the vault alarm.

The face-to-face review of Aid for Dependent Children cases conducted by the Mahoning County Welfare Department discloses 317 ineligible families in the county.

A new natural-gas conservation program by Columbia Gas of Ohio Inc. urges homeowners to keep thermostats at 67 degrees through the winter.

Dr. Glorianne Leck is named chairman of the Youngstown State University foundation of education department.

1965: Two young brothers are charged with fatally shooting Clair R. Heckathorne, 63, their father’s uncle, at his farm home between Mercer and New Wilmington, Pa.

Jackie Fynes of Girard, a junior majoring in music at Youngstown University and member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, is crowned homecoming queen during the football game at Rayen Stadium.

Michael Duva, 10, of Palmer Avenue, is a neighborhood hero after saving an 8-year-old playmate whose clothing had caught on fire. Michael Pattorn had been splashed accidentally with gasoline, which ignited from a nearby trash fire.

1940: Youngstown’s retail stores, many offices and city hall and the courthouse will close for the afternoon when President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a 5-mile motor trip through the city.

Lyle Clark, chairman of Junior Chamber of Commerce government affairs, says a debate featuring Wilbur T. Blair Jr. playing Wendell Willkie, and Joseph Rosapepe playing Franklin Roosevelt at the YMCA ends in a tie.

The current rush by couples to the altar is destined to create a bonanza for divorce lawyers, says Judge Henry Beckenbach. He predicts that 40 percent of the “draft marriages” will end up “on the rocks.”