Saturday, October 29, 2016
Today is Saturday, Oct. 29, the 303rd day of 2016. There are 63 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1956: “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” premieres as NBC’s nightly television newscast.
1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, is executed in London for treason.
1891: Actress, comedienne and singer Fanny Brice is born in New York.
1901: President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.
1929: Wall Street crashes on “Black Tuesday,” heralding the start of America’s Great Depression.
1998: Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roars back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.
2012: Superstorm Sandy comes ashore in New Jersey and slowly marches inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the storm and its aftermath are blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S.
2015: Paul Ryan is elected the 54th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Confirming a jury’s recommendation, Trumbull Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker orders 33-year-old Kenneth Biros to be executed for the murder of Tami Engstrom. The execution date is set for Oct. 29, 1992. (Biros was executed by lethal injection Dec. 8, 2009).
RMI Titanium Co. reveals plans to close its two Ashtabula plants, but says it would be willing to keep them open if it can get wage concessions from the plants’ union work forces.
The FBI is considering placing Willie H. “Flip” Williams, escaped prisoner from the Mahoning County Jail, on its 10 Most Wanted list.
1976: Dr. Larry Smith, D.O., a Youngstown physician, files a $12-million lawsuit against Blue Cross claiming the medical insurance company interferes with his contract on medical fees between him and his patients.
The Buckeye Elks Lodge 73 has a mortgage-burning ceremony at its 22nd annual recognition banquet.
St. Charles Borromeo Church in Boardman is observing its 50th anniversary.
1966: Austintown Police Chief James Hazlett and Deputy Sheriff Russell Handwork round up a 2,000-pound steer that broke loose at Lloyd’s Packing House in Austintown and roamed the roads for two hours.
The Youngstown Area United Appeal campaign deadline passes with pledges about $20,000 below the $1.7 million goal.
Michele Atkinson, 18, a Kent State University sophomore from Salem, is one of six finalists for queen of KSU’s Military Ball.
Youngstown Architect P. Arthur D’Orazio is the designer of St. George Hungarian Byzantine Church in modern Byzantine styling that will be built on Canfield Road and finished in the summer of 1967.
1941: Outside judges will select Youngstown College’s homecoming queen from five candidates nominated by the men. They are Naomi Joerndt, Phyllis Jones, Jeanne Belleville, Olga Parfenchuk and Nora Neimeister.
Youngstown’s Pennsylvania Railroad Station, built in 1886, will be modernized and redecorated at a cost of approximately $30,000.
Carl Ullman, president of Dollar Savings & Trust Co., speaking at a dinner at the Youngstown Club, calls for united support of President Roosevelt’s foreign policy, declaring that America is receiving intelligent leadership on foreign issues. Ullman said he is neither a Democrat nor a “New Dealer.”
Things have gone on in Youngstown Municipal Court that are a disgrace to the community, Municipal Judge Robert Nevin tells the League of Women Voters.