YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Oct. 10, the 284th day of 2016. There are 82 days left in the year. This is Columbus Day in the United States, as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

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On this date in:

A.D. 19: Roman general Germanicus Julius Caesar, 33, dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances, possibly from poisoning.

1845: The U.S. Naval Academy is established in Annapolis, Md.

1913: The Panama Canal is effectively completed as President Woodrow Wilson sends a signal from the White House by telegraph, setting off explosives that destroy a section of the Gamboa dike.

1935: The George Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess,” featuring an all-black cast, opens on Broadway, where it ran for 124 performances.

1973: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, pleads no contest to one count of federal income-tax evasion, and resigns his office.

2005: Angela Merkel strikes a power-sharing deal that makes her the first woman and politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany’s chancellor.

2015: Twin bombings in Ankara kill 103 people at a peace rally in the worst terror attack in Turkey’s modern history.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Two Trumbull County Commissioners, Anthony Latell and Chris Lardis, say they have changed their minds and are prepared to support U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant’s proposal for an area port authority to run the Youngstown Municipal Airport. The third commissioner, Arthur Magee, is undecided.

City water usage in Warren drops to its lowest rate since the 1950s, prompting some city officials to suggest an end to a moratorium on waterline extensions and tap-ins.

A suggestion by Youngstown city officials that it annex 1,400 city-owned acres adjacent to the Youngstown Municipal Airport prompts Vienna Township Trustee Mark Finamore to say the township will incorporate into a village before allowing even one acre to be annexed to Youngstown.

1976: Boardman Township detectives spend three days in Providence, R.I., but find no connection between a 28-year-old man being held there on sodomy charges and the deaths of Bradley Bellino in 1972 and David Evans in 1975.

Among those watching the Youngstown State University Penguins squeeze out a 22-21 homecoming victory over Saginaw Valley State College are Walter and Rosemary Angelo of Hubbard. Walter, a Warren teacher, played on the 1947 Penguins squad.

John C. Capan, 27, of Struthers is electrocuted when he accidentally touches a steel pipe to a 23,000-volt line while working at the Carbon Limestone plant in Hillsville, Pa.

1966: Merchant Robert W. Johnston is elected president of the East Palestine Country Club, succeeding Atty. Robert Hartford.

Baruch Halachmi, a 1966 International Farm Youth exchange student from Israel, is spending 10 days with Mr. and Mrs. William Richey of Springfield Township.

Patrick McCleery, a 5-year-old Youngstown boy who fell nearly 30 feet from atop the bleachers at Hubbard High School football stadium, is released from North Side Hospital.

Two 14-year-old Struthers boys who borrowed a family car to deliver Sunday newspapers crash into a house at Sexton Street and Grandview Avenue.

1941: Woodrow Wilson High upsets South High’s football team, 12-6, before 7,500 fans. It was Wilson’s first City Series triumph in four years and ended South’s three-game winning streak.

Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas R. Bees is passing out cigars, but they aren’t of the campaign variety. They are to announce the birth of a daughter at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

The faith, vision, courage and ideals of Christopher Columbus are praised in a Columbus Day proclamation issued by Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola.