YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 3

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2017. There are 89 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1789: President George Washington declares Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.

1932: Iraq becomes independent of British administration.

1941: Adolf Hitler declares in a speech in Berlin that Russia has been “broken” and would “never rise again.”

1962: Astronaut Wally Schirra becomes the fifth American to fly in space.

1967: Folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl Troubadour best known for “This Land Is Your Land,” dies in New York of complications from Huntington’s disease; he was 55.

1974: Frank Robinson is named Major League Baseball’s first black manager as he is placed in charge of the Cleveland Indians.

1995: The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles finds the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.

2008: O.J. Simpson is found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was released from prison two days ago.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Youngstown State University trustees vote 9-0 to give President Leslie Cochran full authority over intercollegiate athletics. All expenditures, fundraising and other activities by the athletic department must go through his office.

Newton Falls Mayor Patrick Layshock sues five city residents claiming they maliciously tried to embarrass and humiliate him by seeking to remove him from office.

Youngstown Law Director Edwin Romero and Finance Director Gary Kubic say Councilman David Engler acted prematurely in drawing up legislation to ratify a franchise agreement with Ohio Edison Co. A consumers’ group picketed City Hall pushing wheelbarrows of manure and carrying signs saying that the deal “stinks.”

1977: The Treasury Department, under pressure from American steel companies, rules tentatively that five Japanese companies are illegally selling steel in the United States below production costs.

1967: The existence of more than 1,000 unused beds in Ohio’s tuberculosis hospitals was behind the decision to drop the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanitorium and three other hospitals from state subsidy.

Dr. A. Earl Brant of Hubbard, retired chief of surgery of the Youngstown Hospital Association and dean of valley surgeons, dies at North Side Hospital of lung complications.

Mahoning County commissioners promise to make best-possible appointments to the new county Board of Mental Retardation scheduled to take over responsibility for the school program.

1942: War Production Board officials at Washington, alarmed by the nation’s scrap situation, asks industrialists to scrap all salvageable material at once rather than over the original 90-day period.

Youngstown College Penguins suffer their second defeat while South High loses a close contest to Alliance High, 20-19, and Chaney beats Memorial High at Campbell, 13-7.