Today is Sunday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2015

Today is Sunday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2015. There are 81 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1779: Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, dies two days after being wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Georgia.

1890: The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded in Washington, D.C.

1905: The Juilliard School is founded as the Institute of Musical Art in New York.

1910: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis.

1932: The first American political telecast takes place as the Democratic National Committee sponsors a program from a CBS television studio in New York.

1944: The classic films “To Have and Have Not,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and “Laura,” starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, open in New York.

1958: The lunar probe Pioneer 1 is launched; it fails to go as far out as planned, falls back to Earth, and burns up in the atmosphere.

1968: Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, is launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

1975: Bill Clinton and Hillary Diane Rodham are married in Fayetteville, Ark.

“NBC Saturday Night” (later “Saturday Night Live”) makes its debut with guest host George Carlin.

1984: Challenger astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to walk in space as she and fellow Mission Specialist David C. Leestma spent 31/2 hours outside the shuttle.

1985: Arab-American activist Alex Odeh is killed by a bomb blast in Santa Ana, Calif. (There have yet to be any arrests in the case.)

1991: Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas re-appears before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “high-tech lynching.”

2002: Former President Jimmy Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

2005: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has finished pumping out the New Orleans metropolitan area, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina six weeks earlier and then was swamped again by Hurricane Rita.

A Russian spacecraft carrying U.S. millionaire Gregory Olsen and a two-man crew lands in Kazakhstan after a seven-day space sojourn.

2010: Rescuers in Chile finish reinforcing a hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety.

Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides win the Nobel Prize in economics for their work in explaining why unemployment can remain high despite large numbers of job openings.

2014: The International Monetary Fund’s policy-setting committee promises “bold and ambitious” action to boost a global recovery that is showing signs of weakness.

Customs and health officials begin taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Lawyers for black Mahoning County residents challenging the constitutionality of political districting ask a federal court to prohibit the county Board of Elections from declaring winners in the Nov. 6 general election.

Youngstown City Council approves a resolution by Councilman Lock Beachum, D-2nd, calling for city, school and business leaders to hold a summit to determine if students in the district are learning skills necessary to land jobs.

Youngstown political activist Ron Daniels says he will not run in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary if Jesse Jackson throws his hat in the ring.

1975: Dennis D. Hunter of Salem is one of five convicts described as “extremely dangerous” who escaped from a U.S. penitentiary in Marion, Ill., by using a remote control device to open the doors of a maximum security cell block.

Purchase is finalized for the site of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine after a final payment is made on the $250,000 transaction for the 46-acre Bryan Jones farm in Rootstown.

The Youngstown Diocesan Confederation of Teachers, which includes 200 faculty members in six diocesan high schools, votes to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.

1965: Ten pickets from the Ohio Chapter of the United Dairy Farmers picket the Isaly Dairy Co. plant on Mahoning Avenue carrying signs saying that the 8 cents a quart paid to farmers hasn’t changed in 20 years.

Heavy thunderstorms and strong winds topple tree branches and interrupt power and telephone services in the area. One large branch fell on three autos in front of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity on Bryson Street.

The Pro To Club opens a new season of activities with dinner at the Parkview Inn, Canfield. Mrs. Hampton Davey conducts the business meeting, and a new member, Miss Charlotte Jones, is welcomed.

1940: An excited crowd estimated at 120,000 greets President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s motorcade through Youngstown.

The Youngstown College Penguins trounce Westminster College in Rayen Stadium, 44-0, before 4,200 fans.

“The Public taste is a fairly dependable index, with standards commendably high,” Author Virginia Kirkus tells the Ohio Library Association convention at Hotel Ohio.