YEARS AGO


YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2015. There are 68 days left in the year.

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1648: The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War and effectively destroys the Holy Roman Empire.

1861: The first transcontinental telegraph message is sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.

1940: The 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

1945: The United Nations officially comes into existence as its charter takes effect.

1952: Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declares in Detroit, “I shall go to Korea” as he promises to end the conflict. (He made the visit more than a month later.)

1962: A naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John F. Kennedy goes into effect during the missile crisis.

1972: Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, who’d broken Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, dies in Stamford, Conn., at age 53.

1992: The Toronto Blue Jays become the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 4-3, in Game 6.

2002: Authorities apprehend Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo near Myersville, Md., in the Washington-area sniper attacks. (Malvo later was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.)

2005: Hurricane Wilma knifes through Florida with winds up to 125 mph.

Civil-rights icon Rosa Parks dies in Detroit at age 92.

2010: After the latest release of secret U.S. military documents by WikiLeaks, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg tells BBC television that allegations of prisoner abuse and civilian killings in Iraq are extremely serious and need to be investigated.

2014: A shooting rampage in Northern California claims the lives of Sacramento County Deputy Danny Oliver, then Placer County sheriff’s detective Michael Davis Jr. (a suspect, Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes, faces charges of murder and attempted murder).

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1990: Andrei Anikin, a key adviser in the Soviet Union’s shift to a free-market economy, will speak at the Holiday Inn MetroPlex at a dinner honoring auto dealer Paul E. Martin as the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp.’s “Man of the Year.”

U.S. Rep. Donald E. Lukens, a Cincinnati Republican, resigns from Congress amid accusations of sexual misconduct with young women.

Realtor David B. Roberts is chairman of a drive to recruit members for Stambaugh Pillars, a volunteer group seeking to broaden support for preservation of Stambaugh Auditorium.

1975: A federal judge in Pittsburgh lifts a temporary injunction against the French company Societe Imetal’s acquisition of Copperweld Corp., which has a plant in Warren.

Colonel A. Anders, 25, of Warren is killed when his car strikes a train at Route 45 and Lyntz-Townline Road while he was driving home from work at the GM Lordstown plant.

Struthers Manor, a 70-unit Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority home for senior citizens, has an open house. The four-story brick building is fully occupied.

1965: A total of 140,578 Mahoning County citizens are registered to vote in the Nov. 2 election that will decide state and local issues, school district, township and municipal elections.

Members of Youngstown’s Parent Teachers Association set out to visit 50,000 homes in the city seeking support for a 6.7 -mill levy renewal.

Dr. William J. Flynn, director of head and neck surgery at the Youngstown Hospital Association, receives the American Cancer Society’s distinguished service medal during a ceremony at Columbus.

Newton Falls Area Jaycees are attempting to gauge the interest and financial support in the city for construction of a municipal swimming pool.

1940: Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola offers the U.S. Army 100 acres of the city’s municipal airport at Vienna for training purposes.

Fire destroys the Rukenbrod slaughterhouse that had been in business for 50 years in Unity. Firemen believe the fire was sparked by a cigarette thrown from a passing car.

Youngstown College is one of 18 schools represented at the Tri-State Women’s Conference at Grove City (Pa.) College.

A hundred men will be added to the Mullins Manufacturing Corp.’s pressed-steel division in Warren to fill a $5 million federal contract to produce large-caliber cartridges.

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