YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2016. There are 78 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1066: Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English at the Battle of Hastings.

1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, is born in Denison, Texas.

1947: Air Force test pilot Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

1960: Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggests the idea of a Peace Corps while addressing an audience of students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

1964: Civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1977: Singer Bing Crosby dies outside Madrid, Spain, at 74.

1986: Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

2006: The U.N. Security Council votes unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.

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1991: Reports of shots being fired lead to a confrontation between police and more than 100 people in the Ravine Place-Quinby Street area. Fifteen people were searched, but no weapons were found.

The latest novel by Youngstown-born author Ross H. Spencer, “The Fedorovich File,” is largely set in the city.

1976: The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., the honored speaker at the 58th annual session of the Ohio State Baptist Convention at Greater Friendship Baptist Church in Youngstown, tells reporters outside the session that he is supporting Democrat Jimmy Carter for president because Republicans have not been responsive to the problems of black people.

Plans for a new $5-million, three-story Lawrence County Courthouse are unveiled for county officials and judges by architects. The 126-year-old courthouse would be preserved as an historic structure.

John Ingram, 26, is convicted by a Mahoning County jury of aggravated murder while committing a rape, two counts of aggravated robbery and felonious assault. Ingram murdered a woman during a robbery at Neal’s Oriole Bar.

1966: The Youngstown Youth Leadership Council, described as a responsible and moderate group of about 60 Negro men, issues a report that says the white community in general has failed to remove barriers that interfere with Negroes moving into the mainstream of the community. Among those active in the YLC are McCullough Williams Jr., Atty. Nathaniel Jones and the Rev. Lonnie A. Simon.

The cost of increasing street lighting on South Schenley, Glenwood Avenue and McGuffey Road would average $8 to $12 in special assessments for the property owner, says City Engineer J. Phillip Richley.

Seven people are honored for outstanding community service by the Buckeye Elks: Mayor Anthony Flask, Atty. Clarence Johnson, Charles Carney, Dr. Seymour Feuer, James Gardner, Atty. Horace Tetlow and Margaret Linton.

1941: Students of South High School send Youngstown City Council an editorial published in the school publication The Voice, calling for the installation of a traffic light at Market Street and Warren Avenue to reduce speeding on the “Market Street Speedway.”

Warden Frank D. Henderson of the Ohio Penitentiary reveals that six prisoners convicted of sex crimes voluntarily submitted to emasculation to improve their chances for parole.

The Youngstown scrap iron collection is extended two days to permit a thorough cleanup of all available scrap iron.