Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2016

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2016. There are 87 days left in the year.

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On t his date in:

1941: Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation’s highest court, dies in Washington at age 84.

1947: President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address as he speaks on the world food crisis.

1986: In an incident that helped expose the Iran-Contra affair, a plane secretly ferrying supplies to Nicaraguan Contra rebels is shot down over southern Nicaragua by Sandinista forces. One of the plane’s occupants, Eugene Hasenfus, parachuted to safety while three other men were killed.

1988: Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambastes Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

1990: A jury in Cincinnati acquits an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.

2011: Steve Jobs, 56, the Apple founder and former chief executive who’d invented and master-marketed ever sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, dies in Palo Alto, Calif.

2015: The United States, Japan and 10 other nations in Asia and the Americas reach agreement on the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

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1991: Dave Dravecky brings his message of hope in the face of adversity to a packed audience at Stambaugh Auditorium on a day declared Dave Dravecky Day by Mayor Patrick Ungaro.

Ames Department Stores Inc. is closing 77 of its 448 stores, including one of two in Warren.

In two rivalry games, Cardinal Mooney defeats Ursuline, 25-0, and Boardman beats Austintown Fitch, 14-3.

1976: The body of a decapitated woman is found off South Range Road near Sebring.

Gov. James A. Rhodes orders the Ohio Highway Patrol to investigate the disappearance of two years of records documenting $5.3 million in cash disbursements by the state Bureau of Workmen’s Compensation.

Youngstown State University reaches an agreement that clears the way for the purchase of property in Smokey Hollow and for construction of a parking deck off Wick Avenue.

1966: Youngstown district residents are going to get a chance to visit a modern auto assembly plant in operation, turning out a car a minute, when the General Motors Lordstown plant is dedicated and hosts an open house the week of Oct. 17.

John Velichko, a 22-year veteran in the sanitary division of Youngstown’s Department of Public Works, is appointed superintendent of sanitation, succeeding Michael Bacha.

A 15-year-old Poland youth, a junior member of the Poland Township Fire Department, admits setting three fires in the township because he likes to watch fires and to fight them.

1941: The Army is returning to civilian life men over 28 who apply for release, and draft officials are urging returning soldiers to report immediately to the re-employment committeeman of their local draft board.

The Youngstown district will feel the pinch in its gas supplies. Other parts of the state, including the Ohio River section, will benefit most from western shipments via the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, D-Youngstown, says a “selfish few” communities that have benefited from federal improvements that helped their industries are now leading the opposition to a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.