Tuesday, October 27, 2015
YEARS AGO
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2015. There are 65 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, is published.
1858: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is born in New York City.
1880: Theodore Roosevelt marries his first wife, Alice Lee.
1938: Du Pont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”
1954: U.S. Air Force Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is promoted to brigadier general, the first black officer to achieve that rank in the USAF.
Walt Disney’s first television program, titled “Disneyland” after the yet-to-be completed theme park, premieres on ABC.
1962: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft is shot down while flying over Cuba, killing the pilot, U.S. Air Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr.
1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.
1980: Opera star Beverly Sills gives her last public performance during a farewell gala at New York’s Lincoln Center.
1995: A sniper kills one soldier and wounds 18 others at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Paratrooper William J. Kreutzer is convicted in the shootings and condemned to death; the sentence later is commuted to life in prison.)
2004: The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 4, 3-0.
2005: White House counsel Harriet Miers withdraws her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of brutal criticism from fellow conservatives.
As many Floridians continue to struggle to find food, water and fuel in the wake of Hurricane Wilma, President George W. Bush visits the state to inspect the damage.
2010: Dozens of Jewish extremists hoisting Israeli flags defiantly march through the Arab-Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm, chanting “death to terrorists” and touching off clashes between rock-hurling residents and police.
2014: The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend new restrictions for people at highest risk for coming down with the Ebola virus and symptom-monitoring for those at lower risk.
VINDICATOR FILES
1990: Ralph W. Clarke, a Youngstown Board of Education member from 1973 to 1977, calls on East Side residents to unite to protest the proposed closing of East and South high schools.
Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro vows to contract out the work done by housing inspectors after a report shows that one inspector issued 178 code violations during the first 10 months of the year while two other inspectors issued a total of three.
Rabbi David Steinhardt will be installed as spiritual leader of El Emeth Temple on Logan Way.
1975: Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes tells 500 people at the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast that those opposing State Issue 5, a bond issue to fund capital improvements, and Issue 2, which would provide tax incentives for new industries, “do not understand the problems of working people.”
Named to the Steel Valley Conference all-conference golf squad are Julian Taylor and Pete Prokop Jr., both of Ursuline; John Hamarik and Joe Schumer, both of Mooney, and Ken George, Boardman.
Bert Toth, owner and operator of the Himrod Co. on South Avenue, is elected president of the Body Shop Council of the Automotive Service Council at the national organization’s conference at Lake Geneva, Wis.
1965: Speaking to 1,200 people at a dinner at Idora Park ballroom, Postmaster General Lawrence F. O’Brien says “Rep. Michael J. Kirwan was a tower of strength for the late President John F. Kennedy, and there is no one in Congress on whom President Lyndon B. Johnson depends more.”
A delegation of Trumbull County officials meets in Columbus with Gov. James A. Rhodes to discuss the county’s first venture in the field of industrial enticement, the Community Improvement Corp.
In his first year as head coach of McDonald’s football team, Jack Pierson’s Blue Devils are undefeated.
Youngstown’s four commercial banks – Union, Dollar, Mahoning and People’s – announce an increase in their interest rates on savings accounts from 2.5 percent to 4 percent.
1940: Members of Mahoning County’s 11 draft boards have been busy registering 30,000 young men for military training in 10 days.
W.D. Wiles is elected to the Girard Board of Education, filling an unexpired term of three years.
Phyllis Patrick and Nancy Fitori, sophomores at Youngstown College, attend the inter-collegiate conference for women at Grove City College.