YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2015. There are 67 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1415: During the Hundred Years’ War, outnumbered English soldiers led by Henry V defeat French troops in the Battle of Agincourt in northern France.

1760: Britain’s King George III succeeds his late grandfather, George II.

1854: The “Charge of the Light Brigade” takes place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men charge the Russian army, suffering heavy losses.

1929: Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted in Washington, D.C. of accepting a $100,000 bribe from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny. (Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000; he ended up serving nine months.)

1939: The play “The Time of Your Life,” by William Saroyan, opens in New York.

1954: A meeting of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet is carried live on radio and television; to date, it’s the only presidential Cabinet meeting to be broadcast.

1957: Mafia boss Albert Anastasia of “Murder Inc.” notoriety is shot to death by masked gunmen in a barber shop inside the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York.

1962: During a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demands that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba, saying he was prepared to wait “until hell freezes over” for an answer; Stevenson then presents photographic evidence of the bases to the Council.

1971: The U.N. General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

1983: A U.S.-led force invades Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who says the action is needed to protect U.S. citizens there.

1994: Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claims that a black carjacker had driven off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder).

1999: Golfer Payne Stewart and five others are killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42.

2005: U.S. military deaths in Iraq reach the 2,000 mark.

2014:The World Health Organization says more than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola and that nearly half of them had died as the outbreak continued to spread.

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1990: Youngstown Board of Education member Don L. Hanni III calls for merging Choffin Career Center and the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School and to close two city high schools and consolidate their students at the Choffin building.

Warren Police Chief Richard Galgozy announces that he will retire in December from a post he’s held for 13 years.

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1975: U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-Youngstown, is optimistic that the House Labor Standards Committee will conduct a full investigation into the takeover of Copperweld Corp. by Societe Imetal of France.

Paul L. Wick, 84, of Hubbard, president of the Federal Building Corp. and secretary of the Myron Wick Estates Co., dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital of injuries suffered when his car struck the back of a WRTA bus.

The Mahoning-Columbiana Counties Building Trades Council endorses the re-election of Mayor Jack C. Hunter, a Republican, over Democrat George Vukovich.

1965: Atty. Charles P. Henderson is sworn in as Mahoning County probate judge by Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. in a courtroom filled with friends, relatives and well-wishers.

While dedicating the new Struthers City Hall, U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan explains his stand on a federal health plan for the Appalachian section of Ohio.

Aetna Freight Lines President W.P. Anstrom presents safe-driving awards to 34 Warren drivers during the annual safety banquet at the Cafe 422.

1940: State Examiner C.E. Lippincott issues a state audit charging that Youngstown judges, city officials , police, councilmen and the mayor “fixed” 4,821 traffic tickets during an 18-month period ending Dec. 31, 1939.

Hugh W. Donnell of Youngstown wins honors at the 31st national dairy show at Harrisburg, Pa., for his Jersey cattles.

Officers elected by the Mahoning Presbytery Men’s League in Mahoning, Trumbull and Stark counties are George D. Clark, Osborne Mitchell, Dale Burrows, George Cooper and R.A. White.