YEARS AGO
YEARS AGO
Today is Saturday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2015. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween. A reminder: Daylight saving time ends Sunday at 2 a.m. Clocks should be turned back one hour.
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1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1864: Nevada becomes the 36th state as President Abraham Lincoln signs a proclamation.
1926: magician Harry Houdini dies in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.
1941: the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II.
1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hopes for fruitful peace negotiations.
1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.
2005: President George W. Bush nominates Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
2010: Tiger Woods loses golf’s No. 1 ranking after 281 consecutive weeks to England’s Lee Westwood.
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1990: After meeting with some of Youngstown’s black leaders, school board member Don L. Hanni III says he will pull from the agenda for the board’s next meeting his proposal to consolidate Choffin Career Center with the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School and to close two high schools.
Trumbull County Sheriff Richard A. Jakmas says rackets figure Orland Carabbia is being charged with bribery after purportedly giving an undercover deputy three $500 payments for protection of video poker machines in Niles and Vienna.
Trumbull County officials are moving fast to renovate the Stone Building for the 11th District Court of Appeals, which covers Trumbull, Lake, Geauga, Portage and Ashtabula counties, after judges threaten to move the headquarters out of the city.
1975: Sixteen Mahoning County men are among 1,118 new lawyers who passed the July bar examinations: Robert M. Bonchak, Andrew G. Bresko, Gerald H. Burlew, Frederick S. Coombs III, Alfred J. Fleming, James F. Kalasky, Frederick J. Krebs, Richard J. LaCivita, Lynne E. Listiak, Mark G. Mangie, Douglas J. Pride, Richard K. Rohde Jr., Harlan M. Small, Gary L. Van Brocklin, J. Christopher Varley and Dennis P. Zapka.
Ohio Director of Transportation Richard D. Jackson opens the Boardman Expressway from South Avenue to East Midlothian Boulevard.
The first of six gas wells will be drilled on Warren city property by the Atlas Energy Co., on Urban Renewal land off Pine Southeast.
1965: Roberta Messerly, secretary to U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, is honored by 1,000 Democratic women during a dinner at the Voyager Motor Inn downtown.
The Rescue Mission, which has been given a 12-acre site on old state Route 82 west of Vienna, plans to build a $50,000 rehabilitation center for alcoholics.
Trumbull County police agencies and hospitals are told to be on the alert for 15 pounds of chocolate candy that was removed from a trash container behind the Woolworth Co. store in the Elm Road Plaza. The candy had been sprayed with insecticide and marked with a label saying it was dangerous and poisonous before being discarded.
1940: Youngstown College will sponsor a series of 26 Sunday night radio broadcasts that will feature roundtable discussions, lectures by faculty members, dramatic portrayals by the drama department and musical selections by the music department.
More than 60 employees at the Youngstown Water Works have an organizational meeting with the Utilities Workers Organizing Committee.
In a front-page editorial, The Vindicator endorses the re-election of Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, who the editorial describes as far-sighted and courageous in respect to the major issue of national defense.