Today is Sunday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2017. There are 84 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2017. There are 84 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1869: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, N.H.

1871: The Great Chicago Fire erupts; fires also break out in Peshtigo, Wis., and in several communities in Michigan.

1918: U.S. Army Cpl. Alvin C. York leads an attack that kills 25 German soldiers and results in the capture of 132 others in the Argonne Forest in France.

1934: Bruno Hauptmann is indicted by a grand jury in New Jersey for murder in the death of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

1945: President Harry S. Truman tells a press conference in Tiptonville, Tenn., that the secret scientific knowledge behind the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.

1956: Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5, 2-0.

1957: The Brooklyn Baseball Club announces it is accepting an offer to move the Dodgers from New York to Los Angeles.

1867: Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee dies in London at age 84.

1970: Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

1982: All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, are banned.

1998: The House triggers an open-ended impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton in a momentous 258-176 vote; 31 Democrats join majority Republicans in opening the way for nationally televised impeachment hearings.

2001: An SAS airliner taking off from Milan, Italy, hits a private jet, careened into an airport building and explodes; all 110 people on the MD-87, four people in the private jet and four people on the ground are killed.

2005: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake flattens villages on the Pakistan- India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people.

2007: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces his country will cut in half its remaining troop contingent in Iraq in the spring of 2008. (Britain ends up postponing the withdrawal amid a spike in militia violence.)

Michael Devlin is sentenced in Union, Mo., to life in prison for kidnapping one of two boys he’d held captive in his suburban St. Louis apartment. (Devlin pleads guilty the next day to dozens of other counts, resulting in a total of 74 life sentences.)

Racing great John Henry, the thoroughbred who earned more than $6.5 million before retiring as a gelding, is euthanized at the Kentucky Horse Park at age 32.

2012: Canadian Joshua Boyle and his U.S.-born wife, Caitlan Coleman, are last heard from in Afghanistan before being kidnapped by the Taliban; they remain in captivity.

President Barack Obama designates the Keene, Calif., home of Cesar Chavez, the late founder of the United Farmworkers Union, as a national monument.

2016: Three Palm Springs, Calif., police officers are shot, two fatally, in what authorities call an ambush during a domestic dispute call by a gang member; a suspect has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Donald Trump vows on Twitter to continue his campaign even though he said the “media and establishment” want him out of the race “so badly”; many Republicans are calling on Trump to abandon his presidential bid in the wake of the release of a 2005 video in which he made lewd remarks about women and appeared to condone sexual assault.

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1992: Thomas Altiere, Howland’s police chief, is unopposed for Trumbull County sheriff after the Ohio Supreme Court rules that the only other candidate, Fred Shaffer of West Farmington, did not have enough time logged as a police officer to be eligible to run for sheriff.

Poland Township officials and residents clash in a loud, long session that focused on the proposed relocation of Morris Road and an agreement that will allow operation of a soil remediation plant in the township.

Ohio’s new Center for Human Identification is using the skull from a decomposed body found in Hubbard three years ago to reconstruct the dead woman’s face in an effort to identify her.

1977: Charles J. Carney, D-Youngstown, says he will be a participant when President Jimmy Carter convenes a White House conference on the steel industry’s problems.

Gov James A. Rhodes signs a bill that allows Ohio school districts to begin borrowing money to maintain operations immediately after passage of a levy.

The Rev. David Joachim, formerly of Youngstown, will be ordained to the ministry at First United Presbyterian Church, Missoula, Mont.

1967: Eight Youngstown seniors among 3,000 high school pupils in the nation are named Commended Candidates in the National Achievement Scholarship Program for outstanding Negro students: Percy Squire, Charles Brown, Mary Ann Snipes, Thomas Luten, Brenda Allen, Luree Jackson, Reginald Earl Jones and JoAnn Mahone.

U.S. Rep. John B. Anderson, an Illinois Republican, will be the principal speaker for the 80th annual banquet of the Giddings Club in Warren.

An open house at Hillside Hospital will acquaint citizens with the hospital’s services: total tuberculosis care and rehabilitation for the physically disabled.

1942: The Junior Chamber of Commerce, working under the direction of the War Production Board, will ask owners of some 700 “jalopies” to donate them as scrap.

Two men, found guilty of taking metal and other salvage materials placed in front of homes for collection by air raid wardens, are fined $25 each by Youngstown Municipal Judge Peter Mulholland. The scrap is property of the government.

The Colonel Lewis Campbell Post 3538, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will furnish star cards to anyone with a family member in the service