YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Oct. 17, the 291st day of 2016. There are 75 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1610: French King Louis XIII, 9, is crowned at Reims, five months after the assassination of his father, Henry IV.

1777: British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrender to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.

1807: Britain declares it will continue to reclaim British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they hold U.S. citizenship.

1931: Mobster Al Capone is convicted of income-tax evasion. (Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Capone was released in 1939.)

1933: Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1956: The all-star movie “Around the World in 80 Days,” produced by Michael Todd, has its world premiere in New York.

1966: The TV game show “The Hollywood Squares” premieres on NBC.

1979: Mother Teresa of India is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1989: An earthquake measuring a surface-wave magnitude of 7.1 struck northern California, killing 63 people and causing $6 billion worth of damage.

1991: Entertainer Tennessee Ernie Ford dies in Reston, Va., at age 72.

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1991: Kenneth Biros, 33, takes the stand in his aggravated-murder trial in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, tearfully claiming he never intended to kill Tami Engstrom, 22, of Hubbard.

Four Ohio cities – Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton – are listed by Forbes Magazine among the top 50 cities in the United States in which to do business.

U.S. Rep. James A Traficant Jr. says that now that Trumbull County commissioners have endorsed his proposal to regionalize the Youngstown Municipal Airport, he will convene a meeting of the key players to discuss creation of an airport authority.

1976: A crowd estimated at 5,000 to 7,500 greets Jimmy Carter, Democratic candidate for president, on his visit to downtown Youngstown. Carter, former Georgia governor, recalls Youngstown’s Frank Sinkwich as the greatest football player the Georgia Bulldogs ever had.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is making progress in its efforts to produce steel for the automotive industry that is less susceptible to rust.

Youngstown State quarterbacks Cliff Stoudt, Wayne Smith and Keith Snoddy each lead a touchdown drive in the Penguins’ 33-7 rout of Morehead State.

1966: Russell McKay, president of the Home Savings & Loan Co., a civic as well as financial leader for a half century, dies after being ill since September. In 1965, he celebrated 50 years with the bank his father founded.

About 400 Mahoning Valley civic and business leaders attend the dedication of General Motors new Fisher Body-Chevrolet plant at Lordstown.

Former Struthers Councilman Victor Vasvari is killed when a railroad car derails and crushes him against another car in the East Yard of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell yard.

1941: Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola greets 600 delegates to the Ohio CIO Council convention at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.

A 115-percent rent increase – from $13 to $28 a month– and another from $20 to $40 are deemed “completely unjustified” by the Greater Youngstown Fair Rent Committee in one of six complaints studied.

Income from the redemption of Ohio sales-tax stamps contributed to the Youngstown Society for the Blind paid the cost of vacations for 30 local blind people at Fresh Air Camp.