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Today is Friday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2016. There are 85 days left in the year.

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1765: The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.

1849: Author Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore at age 40.

1858: The fifth debate between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas takes place in Galesburg.

1916: In the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta.

1949: The Republic of East Germany is formed.

1954: Marian Anderson becomes the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.

1979: Pope John Paul II concludes his week-long tour of the United States with a Mass on the Washington Mall.

1991: University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denies Hill’s allegations.

1996: Fox News Channel debuts.

2015: President Barack Obama apologizes to Doctors Without Borders for the American air attack that killed 42 people at its hospital in Afghanistan, and says the U.S. will examine military procedures to look for better ways to prevent such incidents.

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1991: There won’t be as many large jack-o-lanterns in the Youngstown area this Halloween because of the drought that has slowed growth, but there’s an abundant supply of medium-sized pumpkins.

A newborn baby is found wrapped in a garbage bag in a sewer on Sycamore Street on Youngstown’s East Side. The 4-pound, 2-ounce girl is in guarded condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center.

Rep. James A. Traficant is being criticized by the George Bush administration trade experts for pushing Buy American trade provisions in legislation.

1976: Future operations of GF Business Equipment Inc. in Youngstown are up in the air after a decision by the board of directors to cancel plans for a new manufacturing plant in the city, citing increased costs of a new labor contract.

Trumbull County commissioners approve the annexation of all of Lordstown Township to the year-old Lordstown Village, increasing it from a 2-square-mile village into one of 25 square miles.

Emanuel Mihas, 25, of Campbell, an employee of Pantellis Painting Co., drowns in Beaver River after falling from a Rochester, Pa., bridge that was being painted.

1966: The General Motors Lordstown plant will begin shipping a large share of its automobiles to market on specially designed rail cars.

Frosty morning temperatures in the mid-30s hold promise for beautiful fall foliage.

The city of Campbell, which has one fire station located in the city building on Wilson Avenue, may get two new stations after city council orders the city engineer to prepare plans.

A new organization to be known as Mill Creek Park Citizens Committee is formed to fight a proposed children’s zoo in Mill Creek Park. Fred Lanz says the group is not opposed to a zoo, only to its proposed location in the park.

1941: Fewer people are preparing to vote, with registration in Youngstown, Campbell and Struthers down by 4,669.

A class in columnar record keeping will begin at South High School. The course includes keeping records as applied to modern business practices in retail stores, professional offices and service organizations.