YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2015. There are 72 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1714: The coronation of Britain’s King George I takes place in Westminster Abbey.

1803: The U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.

1914: “Stay Down Here Where You Belong,” an anti-war song by Irving Berlin, is published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. in New York.

1936: Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, dies in Forest Hills, N.Y., at age 70.

1944: During World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur steps ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 21/2 years after saying, “I shall return.”

A series of gas-storage tank explosions and fires in Cleveland kills 130 people.

1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into purported Communist influence and infiltration in the U.S. motion-picture industry.

1964: The 31st president of the United States, Herbert C. Hoover, dies in New York at age 90.

1965: In one of the more- colorful moments of his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson, recovering from gallbladder surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, pulls up his shirt and jacket to show off his abdominal scar to reporters and photographers. (Although critics were appalled by the display, Johnson later said he was trying to dispel rumors that he’d actually been operated on for cancer.)

1968: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

1973: In the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre,” special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resign.

1981: A bungled armored- truck robbery carried out by members of radical groups in Nanuet, N.Y., leaves a guard and two police officers dead.

1990: Three members of the rap group 2 Live Crew are acquitted by a jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., of violating obscenity laws with an adults-only concert in nearby Hollywood the previous June.

2011: Moammar Gadhafi, 69, Libya’s dictator for 42 years, is killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelm his hometown of Sirte and capture the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell.

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1990: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. attempts to mend fences with members of Congress, sending letters to each of them apologizing for remarks made during debate on a defense appropriations bill. Traficant called members of Congress “political prostitutes” and said it was “the best Congress money could buy.”

A U.S. Treasury Department agent says it is not surprising that no arrests have been made in the Sept. 25 bombing of Mahoning County Prosecutor James Philomena’s home. Such cases can take years to solve, he says.

A service marking the 40th year of the ordination of Bishop Vasilige of the Free Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western Europe takes place at Holy Trinity Free Serbian Orthodox Church on Raccoon Road in Austintown.

1975: Directors of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce announce support of seven of nine proposed amendments to the Ohio Constitution that will appear on the November ballot.

The Rev. Robert J. Campbell of Pittsburgh is named associate pastor of First United Presbyterian Church in Youngstown.

The Rev. Don Baird of Central Christian Church announces that the annual 10-mile “Walk Against Hunger” brings $17,506 in pledges that will be used by five church-related hunger agencies to bring relief to the world’s striving.

1965: The Hubbard Homecoming Association wants to construct a tennis court, ice- skating rink and basketball court on the high- school property.

A strike by 245 drivers of Teamsters Local 377 against Food Haul Inc. of Salem, which supplies meat to some 300 A&P stores in Ohio and Pennsylvania, ends after one day.

Sidney S. Moyer is retiring as president of the Moyer Co. after 46 years in the pants-manufacturing business.

1940: Joseph Bonnet of Paris, world-renowned organist on a three-month tour of the United States, gives a concert at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Shaffer Gas Co. and North Penn Gas Co. drill the first of several natural- gas wells planned for the Conneaut area on the Elmer L. Evans property.

Youngstown’s new airport at Vienna is becoming the kind of place hunters dream about. A herd of deer and other wild game are seen running across the runway when work is slow.