YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Oct. 8, the 282nd day of 2016. There are 84 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1956: Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5, 2-0.

1869: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, N.H.

1871: The Great Chicago Fire erupts; fires also break out in Peshtigo, Wis., and in several communities in Michigan.

1957: The Brooklyn Baseball Club announces it is accepting an offer to move the Dodgers from New York to Los Angeles.

1970: Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

1982: All labor organizations in Poland are banned.

1998: The House triggers an open-ended impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton in a momentous 258-176 vote.

2011: Scott Anderson becomes the first openly gay ordained Presbyterian minister during a ceremony at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wis.

2015: Volkswagen’s top U.S. executive, Michael Horn, offers deep apologies, yet seeks to distance himself from the emissions scandal enveloping the world’s largest automaker.

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1991: A 22-year-old Youngstown man and 19-year-old woman are arrested and charged with attempted murder for placing a newborn girl in an East Side storm sewer. The baby is in serious but stable condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center.

1976: Ralph Gaudio, 54, a long-time crime figure in Youngstown, and Dale Sweetapple, 33, of Mineral Ridge, plead guilty to reduced charges in the murder of racketeer Phillip “Fleegle” Mainer, whose body was found in a shallow grave in Liberty Township.

An anonymous donor who believes the Youngstown Diocesan building detracts from the beauty of St. Columba Cathedral next door donates $40,000 for renovation of the 50-year-old building

Youngstown juvenile officers arrest five more youths in connection with the post-game disturbances after Youngstown city football games at Rayen Stadium.

1966: Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University and brother of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is one of three distinguished speakers for the inauguration of Dr. Albert L. Pugsley as second president of Youngstown University.

Rhoda Zook of Columbiana begins a two-year voluntary term as a nurse at the Mennonite General Hospital in Puerto Rico.

The cornerstone is laid during a ceremony at St. Andrew’s Church at Raccoon and Burgett roads in Austintown. George Tanner Smith and Associates designed the building, and Alex Downie & Sons are the contractors.

A 28-year-old Hubbard man becomes the first man arrested this season by Youngstown police for possession of football betting slips.

1941: Six of seven traffic signals ordered by the city are being installed at South and Dewey, Glenwood and Indianola, West Federal and Superior, Mahoning and Belle Vista, Logan and Hubbard and Logan and Andrews.

A means of boosting the range and “ceiling” of military planes is developed through three years of research of beryllium in a makeshift Newton Falls laboratory.

Gypsy Rose Lee, who is stripping at the Palace Theater, appears at a downtown department store to sign copies of her mystery novel, “The G-String Murders.”