YEARS AGO
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2015. There are 64 days left in the year.
Associated Press
On this date in:
1636: The General Court of Massachusetts passes a legislative act establishing Harvard College.
1776: The Battle of White Plains is fought during the Revolutionary War, resulting in a limited British victory.
1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
1914: Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, sparked World War I, is sentenced in Sarajevo to 20 years’ imprisonment. (He died in 1918.)
1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1940: Italy invades Greece during World War II.
1962: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informs the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey.
1965: Pope Paul VI issues a Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions which, among other things, absolves Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1976: John D. Ehrlichman, former aide to President Richard Nixon, enters a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate- related convictions. He was released in April 1978.
1980: President Jimmy Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan face off in a nationally broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland.
VINDICATOR FILES
1990: The Vindicator is redesigned, unveiling a new look and a new organization of the material being presented to its readers.
A review by Vindicator reporters show many area government workers receive full-time pay and benefits for just seven hours of work a day – and sometimes less.
Rosa Grant, who was convicted Oct. 13, 1983, on two counts of murder in the deaths of her two children in a fire in Youngstown, writes an op-ed published in The Vindicator describing the harsh living conditions on death row at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. Men on death row have access to more recreational activities, daily showers and Bible studies.
1975: Abe Harshman, secretary-treasurer of Western Reserve Transit Authority, says the mass transit authority’s September revenue was up 12.3 percent over a year earlier at $31,644.
Boardman Patrolman William Chester and George Hritz safely lead a stray horse from a swimming pool at Hritz’s Sharon Drive home. The horse, Barney, had wandered from its barn at a Hopkins Road home.
Cincinnati Reds third baseman Pete Rose receives a ring and an automobile as Most Valuable Player in the 1975 World Series, won by the Reds.
1965: An explosion and fire destroys an auto-body shop at 504 Fifth St. in Struthers, causing $15,000 in damage. Quick action by firefighters saved a nearby home and service station.
Five high-level appointments are made at Fisher Body Lordstown plant: Samuel E. Rush Jr., superintendent of production engineering; Jesse E. Murra, supervisor of labor standards; Jack E. Huchinson, superintendent of the body shop; Walter L. Hoehn, superintendent of the paid department; and Ernest J. Barbier, superintendent of the trim shop.
Halloween bargains in People’s Drug Store ad: costumes, $1.66; wigs, 49 cents; 24 candy bars for $1.
1940: George C. Brainard, president of General Fireproofing Co. and chairman of the board of the Fourth Federal Reserve District, is named chief of the Cleveland ordnance district of the U.S. Army, the same position he held during the World War.
“Little Women” will be the first children’s play scheduled by the Youngstown Players and will be staged between Christmas and New Year’s Day, says Theodore Viehman, playhouse director.
About 20 nonstrikers rush a picket line set up by 140 United Rubber Workers employees of the Republic Rubber Division of the Lee Tire and Rubber Co. on Albert Street. Police break up a fight between the two sides. Two of the nonstrikers make it into the plant.