YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2016. There are 83 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1446: The Korean alphabet, created under the aegis of King Sejong, is first published.

1514: Mary Tudor, the 18-year-old sister of Henry VIII, becomes Queen consort of France upon her marriage to 52-year-old King Louis XII, who would die less than three months later.

1776: A group of Spanish missionaries settle in present-day San Francisco.

1888: The public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.

1914: The Belgian city of Antwerp falls to German forces during World War I.

1936: The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1946: The Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opens at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.

1958: Pope Pius XII dies at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

1966: The Baltimore Orioles win their first World Series as they sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers in four games with a 1-0 victory at Memorial Stadium.

1975: Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1985: The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrender two days after seizing the vessel in the Mediterranean.

1995: A sabotaged section of track causes an Amtrak train, the Sunset Limited, to derail in Arizona; one person is killed and about 80 injured (the case remains unsolved).

2006: North Korea faces a barrage of condemnation and calls for retaliation after it announces that it had set off a small atomic weapon underground. President George W. Bush says, “The international community will respond.”

2009: President Barack Obama is named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

2011: At least 27 people are killed and more than 200 injured during massive clashes in downtown Cairo in the worst sectarian outburst since the February revolution.

2015: President Barack Obama visits Roseburg, Ore., the scene of a community college shooting that has claimed the lives of nine victims as well as the gunman.

A democracy group, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement.

Former British Treasury chief and foreign secretary Geoffrey Howe, 88, dies in Warwickshire, England.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: A committee to spearhead the selection of a new president of Youngstown State University has its first meeting behind closed doors.

McDonald Schools Superintendent Matthew Chojnacki says the school’s dress code that prohibits earrings and long hair on boys will not be changed, despite complaints by some parents who believe the policy discriminates against boys.

The Youngstown Board of Education approves a policy requiring all applicants to pass a drug test before they can be hired. The only vote against the policy was cast by member Don Hanni III.

1976: The Youngstown Police Department’s bomb squad defuses an “explosive device” on the roof of the Red Garter Lounge at 2624 Market St.

Speaking at a luncheon in his honor at the Mahoning Country Club, U.S. Rep. Peter Rodino of New Jersey, chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, says, “Watergate cannot be dismissed from the minds of the American people.”

Three winners are chosen in the annual Struthers Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Poster Contest: Tina Hamrock, Lisa Mudryk and Lori Rotz.

Bruising Fullback John Tillery scores four touchdowns as Canfield defeats Liberty, 55-7.

1966: Doug Sanders, colorful professional golfer, will help the Youngstown Area United Appeal-Community Chest-Red Cross “tee off” its $1.7 million annual campaign to finance 43 participating agencies.

Ohio Secretary of State Ted Brown says 7,494 corporate charters were issued in Ohio in the first nine months of the year. Youngstown had 24 new incorporations in September.

Twenty-six employees of the McCrory store at 9 W. Federal St. receive service awards.

1941: Actual construction of the Berlin Reservoir to protect Youngstown district steel production for defense may be started in about a month, and the dam may begin impounding water in late 1942 or early 1943.

An epidemic of mild influenza sweeps the Youngstown district and is spreading rapidly.

Firemen use poison gas to blitz swarms of bees and wasps from the steeple of the First Unitarian Church at Elm Street and Illinois Avenue.