YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2015. There are 69 days left in the year.

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1915: Tens of thousands of women parade up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

1956: A student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule begins; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces start entering the country, and the uprising was put down within weeks.

1983: Some 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, are killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces kills 58 paratroopers.

1989: Twenty-three people are killed in an explosion at Phillips Petroleum Co.’s chemical complex in Pasadena, Texas.

1995: A jury in Houston convicts Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena. (Saldivar was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.)

2005: Warsaw’s conservative mayor, Lech Kaczynski, won Poland’s presidential runoff vote.

2010: The world’s leading advanced and emerging countries vow during a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, to avoid potentially debilitating currency devaluations, aiming to quell trade tensions that could threaten the global recovery.

2014: Officials announce that an emergency-room doctor who’d recently returned to New York City after treating Ebola patients in West Africa tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation. (Dr. Craig Spencer later recovered.)

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1990: General Motors will eliminate the second shift at its Lordstown plant and close it from Nov. 5 to Dec. 1 because of slow sales.

Packard Electric’s hourly workers vote by a huge margin in favor of a new three-year national contract. Of 5,383 votes cast at Packard plants, 87 percent approved the new contract with Packard’s parent, General Motors.

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1975: Youngstown City Council authorizes the Board of Control to grant a franchise to the best bidder for establishment of a cable television franchise in the city.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s steel shipments for the third quarter are at the lowest level since 1971, and net income was $5.4 million on sales of $368 million.

Stanley C. Ewing, Rotary International’s district governor, tells the Youngstown Club that there are now 16,526 clubs in 151 countries.

1965: A well-organized Cleveland flim-flam ring believed to have bilked Youngstowners of thousands of dollars over a decade, may have been broken with the arrest of two Cleveland women by Ohio Highway Patrol troopers in Chardon. The two were driving back to Cleveland after bilking Mrs. Gwendolyn Ward of 114 Madison Ave., Youngstown, of $1,000 in savings.

The Trumbull County Manufacturers Association opposes a suggestion by county commissioners that an airport be built in Lordstown.

Evelyn W. Fulton, mission leader and world traveler , speaks at Canfield U.P. Church for World Order Sunday.

1940: The U.S. should give full aid to Britain, even sending troops to Europe, say two members of the University of Chicago Roundtable during the first of a series of Youngstown Civic Forum programs at Rayen School.

Dr. Spencer Miller Jr., widely known economist and educator, addresses the South Side Merchants and Civic Association’s dinner meeting at the YMCA.

Joseph L. Lettau, head of Youngstown’s licensing bureau, warns junk yard operators that they must have a city permit or they will be arrested.