YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Oct. 13, the 287th day of 2016. There are 79 days left in the year.

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1775: The United States Navy has its origins as the Continental Congress orders the construction of a naval fleet.

1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, is laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

1843: The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith is founded in New York City.

1957: CBS-TV broadcasts “The Edsel Show,” a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. (It was the first special to use videotape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.)

2010: Rescuers in Chile using a missile-like escape capsule pull 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.

2015: Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders clash over U.S. involvement in the Middle East, gun control and economic policy in the first Democratic presidential debate held in Las Vegas.

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1991: An Ohio law that gives sheriffs wide latitude in naming deputies has allowed Mahoning County Sheriff Edward Nemeth to issue credentials to 219 that appear identical to those of sworn law-enforcement officers, even though 179 of those receiving the credentials have no law- enforcement role.

Winner International of Sharon, Pa., has sold between 4 and 5 million anti-auto-theft devices known as The Club since 1987 and expects to sell that many again in 1992.

Six of the seven members of the Youngstown Board of Education live within a three-mile area on the city’s South Side, prompting suggestions from some of the 18 candidates running for the school board that members be elected from wards rather than at-large.

1976: David D. Heck resigns as Sebring’s police chief, saying he is convinced that he is the target of an underworld murder contract.

A WRTA bus driver, who served time for a 1956 murder, is arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court for the aggravated robbery of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant at 2705 South Ave.

Ann Przelomski, managing editor of The Vindicator, tells members of the East Side Kiwanis Club that if freedom of the press is eroded, freedom of speech is the next liberty Americans are likely to lose.

1966: Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, presents the Youngstown Area Urban League with its charter and tells 400 people that “Negroes can be productive consumers or destructive dependents on society, depending on whether they are given basic human rights.”

The Youngstown Federation of Teachers, an AFL-CIO union, is asking the Youngstown Board of Education to conduct an election to determine a bargaining agent for the district’s 1,100 teachers.

1941: The 30th selective service call will be for 202 men from Mahoning County, 90 from Trumbull and 55 from Columbiana. The 31st call, for Negroes, will be for four from Mahoning County and five from Trumbull.

Christopher Columbus is memorialized as an explorer and as the bearer of Christianity to the New World by Mahoning County Judge Erskine Maiden at a banquet at the Duca degli Abruzzi-Columbo Society.

Youngstown Police Chief John Turnbull appoints eight new detectives, boosting the force from 12 to 20. They are: Harry Fickes, Joseph Fabish, Joseph Lepo, Dominic Moore, Frederick O’Conner, John McBride, Joseph Hosa and Herman Mathieu.