Today is Saturday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2017. There are 85 days left in the year.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2017. There are 85 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.

1849: Author Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore at age 40.

1916: In the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta.

1949: The Republic of East Germany is formed.

1954: Marian Anderson becomes the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Co.

1977: The Queen double-A single “We Are the Champions” (by lead singer Freddie Mercury) and “We Will Rock You” (by lead guitarist Brian May) is released by EMI Records.

1982: The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical “Cats” opens on Broadway.

1992: Trade representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initial the North American Free Trade Agreement.

2016: The U.S. accuses Russia of hacking American political sites and email accounts in an effort to interfere with the presidential election.

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1992: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says Mahoning County commissioners have reneged on their pledge to have sheriff’s deputies staff the city jail in exchange for the city’s support of the county’s sales tax in 1991.

Youngstown Board of Education member Don Hanni III says he is considering legal action against the school board for agreeing to pay $126,000 to an architect for renovation of Cleveland Elementary.

A standing-room crowd of 600 packs the Springfield Local Intermediate School auditorium for a school board meeting that centered on a teachers’ strike that began Sept. 9. The teachers’ union asks the board to submit unresolved issues to binding arbitration.

1977: Cleveland racketeer Daniel J. “Danny” Greene, 47, suspected of being involved in several bombings himself, is killed when a bomb exploded in a car next to his in a Lyndhurst parking lot.

Trumbull County officials say they have a site in Champion Township that would be appropriate for a Miller Brewing Co. brewery that would cost $125 million to build and create 1,600 jobs.

The Youngstown YMCA raises $265,079 in its 1977 membership campaign, topping its goal by $15,000.

1967: Pennsylvania Gov. Ray Shaffer orders 300 National Guardsmen to New Castle and three other Western Pennsylvania areas where violence continues in the strike by independent steel haulers.

Robert C. Harnack of Youngstown, a staff member at WFMJ-TV, is named operations director and sales manager of radio stations WSOM and WSOM-FM in Salem.

Richard Botsford of Warren is named director of purchasing and material control at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors, succeeding Daniel Tritten, who is retiring.

1942: “The Raft,” a book by Robert Trumbull, is released telling the story of how three sailors, including Anthony Pastula of Youngstown, survived 34 days in the Pacific Ocean on a tiny rubber raft. It is being serialized in The Vindicator.

The first cooperative air raid alert among county subdivisions will occur when Boardman and Poland township civilian defense teams sound practice alarms simultaneously.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s big Brier Hill plant is “blacked out” completely for five minutes in a preliminary test of an elaborate air raid protection system.