YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 6

Today is Friday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2017. There are 86 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1683: Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrive in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settlements.

1927: The era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a feature containing both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.

1939: In a speech to the Reichstag, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks of his plans to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe – a plan which would entail settling the “Jewish problem.”

1960: The historical drama “Spartacus,” starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Stanley Kubrick, has its world premiere in New York.

1973: War erupts in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

1989: Actress Bette Davis dies in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France at age 81.

2016: President Barack Obama offers 102 federal inmates the chance to leave prison early, bringing to 774 the number of sentences Obama had shortened.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: As a monthlong strike by teachers in Springfield Local Schools continues, teachers have begun picketing school board members’ houses.

Michael I. Monus is granted a temporary restraining order in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Youngstown to prevent John M. Antonucci and others involved in Superior Beverage Group Ltd. from liquidating Monus’ share in the company.

Navy Petty Officer Jon P Seginak, 36, a 1975 graduate of Girard High School, is killed when struck by the blade of a helicopter during NATO exercises in the Aegean Sea near Turkey.

1977: The Mahoning Valley could lose 8 percent of its population as a result of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s decision to terminate 5,000 workers, one study suggests.

The Miller Brewing Co. of Milwaukee says it is stepping up its search in northern Ohio for a site for a $100 million brewery. Youngstown’s growing labor surplus may be an attraction.

Randall P. Gutierrez, 20, of Niles, the son of Dr. Oscar Gutierrez, Niles health commissioner, is killed when he falls from the bed of a landscaper’s truck on Washington Avenue.

1967: Dr. Walter O. Mermis, 63, retired surgeon and physician who brought national attention to Youngstown when he performed surgery in 1937 on 15-year-old Eric Sucher who had been stabbed in the heart, dies of emphysema at his Overhill Road home.

Paul Ewing, an Austintown Eagle Scout, will receive the Medal of Merit, Scouting’s highest award for heroism, for his role in saving the life of Eric Pamfille, who was seriously injured in an accidental explosion at his home.

Dr. Abraham Armstead, 77, of Youngstown is arrested on charges of committing a criminal abortion on a 17-year-old Erie, Pa., girl.

1942: About 86 people, including boys and girls, register at Rayen School for the first North Side class of the new civilian-defense training program.

Kenneth Smith of Youngstown tells how he helped blast an enemy plane into bits while manning a 5-inch gun on the aircraft carrier Yorktown, shortly before it sank during the battle of Midway.

Hubbard Council votes to send two cannons at Harding Park to the wartime scrap drive.

Sara Elizabeth Young of Youngstown is sworn into the WAVES at Cleveland.