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Today is Saturday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2015. There are 82 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

A.D. 19: Roman general Germanicus Julius Caesar, 33, dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances, possibly from poisoning.

1845: The U.S. Naval Academy is established in Annapolis, Md.

1913: The Panama Canal is effectively completed as President Woodrow Wilson sends a signal from the White House by telegraph, setting off explosives that destroy a section of the Gamboa dike.

1938: Nazi Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

1964: The first Summer Olympics in Asia are opened in Tokyo by Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

1967: The Outer Space Treaty, prohibiting the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, enters into force.

1973: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleads no contest to one count of federal income-tax evasion and resigns his office.

1997: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its coordinator, Jody Williams, are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

2005: Angela Merkel strikes a power-sharing deal that makes her the first woman and politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany’s chancellor.

2010: Kim Jong Il’s heir apparent, Kim Jong Un, joins his father at a massive military parade in his most public appearance since being unveiled as North Korea’s next leader.

2014: Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old Pakistani girl, and Kailash Satyarthi, a 60-year-old Indian man, are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives for the right of children to receive an education and to live free from abuse.

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1990: Natalie Ross, star of ABC’s daytime drama “All My Children,” assumes the role of Emily Dickinson in a one-woman show at Youngstown State University.

The state Controlling Board approves a $250,000 grant to help pay for the cost of water- and sewer-line installations and other infrastructure improvements at Salt Springs Road Industrial Park in Youngstown.

The Ohio Super Lotto is on track to reach a jackpot of $50 million, the 12th-largest in the history of state lotteries in the United States.

1975: Beginning with the 1976 models, all GM cars except the Corvette will use front body harnesses built by Packard Electric that use aluminum rather than copper.

Two men wearing black bandannas over their faces and armed with pistols rob the Campbell office of the Metropolitan Savings & Loan Co. and escape with an undisclosed amount of money.

Phil Ragazzo of Niles, considered the best tackle in Western Reserve University history, is one of 15 people inducted into the Case Western Reserve Athletic Hall of Fame.

1965: Youngstown district payrolls have dipped $4 million to $5 million a month with the letdown in steelmaking, but that’s expected to change when the new General Motors production plant at Lordstown begins operations in 1966.

Al B. Monus, a vice president of the Ash Hat Co. at 628 Himrod Avenue, says the trend toward women wearing wigs has caused the company to begin importing them by the hundreds, but he doesn’t expect wigs to replace hats. The company sells more than 250,000 hats a year, priced from $2 to $25.

The Newton Falls Division of Rockwell Standard Corp. announces an annual award to salute the efforts of the student who completes the best project or attains the highest score in industrial-arts classes at Newton Falls.

1940: The world will not follow a course of trade dictated by Hitler, and “Germany is not going to beat the British Empire,” Sir Louis Beale tells 400 guests of the Business and Professional Women’s Club at Central YMCA. Beale, a member of the British purchasing commission, is touring the Valley’s steel mills.

Acting Mayor Arthur R. Gundry appeals to all civic groups, employers, veterans organizations and the public to cooperate in showing Youngstown at its best when President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits the city.

The Canfield Players will open their season with a production of Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever.”

Westminster College’s endowment fund expects to receive 20 percent of the $2 million estate of the late John S. Mack, head of the G.C. Murphy Co.