Today is Monday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2017. There are 83 days left in the year. This is Columbus

Today is Monday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2017. There are 83 days left in the year. This is Columbus Day in the United States, as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

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On this date:

1888: The public is first admitted to the Washington Monument.

1914: The Belgian city of Antwerp falls to German forces during World War I.

1936: The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1958: Pope Pius XII dies at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

1975: Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

2009: President Barack Obama is named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

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1992: A shortage of priests is forcing a restructuring of the six-county Youngstown Diocese, which will include the closing of 10 parishes and two missions. Youngstown parishes slated for closure are St. Casimir, Sts. Peter and Paul, Our Lady of Hungary and Immaculate Conception.

Michael Feuer, president of Cleveland-based OfficeMax Inc., opens the company’s newest store and the first store in the new Shops at Boardman Park and says Youngstown is a good market for his company.

Marc Lincoln Marks, a former Republican congressman from Sharon, says he’s still a Republican, but he is supporting Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and Sen. Al Gore, the Democratic candidates, for president and vice president.

1977: Paul N. Wigton, Republic Steel Corp.’s Mahoning Valley District manager, tells 250 people at the Western Reserve Association of Foremen’s Clubs that too much government regulation of private industry is threatening to destroy the free enterprise system that has given the United States the world’s highest standard of living.

Despite a general business slowdown and the “bloodbath” that has hit the Youngstown steel district, economists tell The Vindicator’s business editor George R. Reiss that the United States is not headed for a recession.

Loan applications are down and deposits are up in the wake of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s announced cutbacks, says Donald McKay, president of Home Savings and Loan Association.

1967: President Johnson orders a freeze on some federal public-works projects, which will affect the $850,000 Crab Creek flood-control project and plans for the Grand River Reservoir.

The U.S. Supreme Court lets stand a Pennsylvania law requiring public school districts to provide bus transportation for parochial- school students.

Hugh A. Frost, Republican candidate for mayor of Youngstown, is featured in a Life magazine article on African-American mayors, principally dealing with Carl Stokes winning the Cleveland Democratic mayoral nomination.

1942: Milton Township is right behind Kansas in scrap collections. Kansas leads the states with a per-capita collection of 72 pounds. Milton Township has 66.

Tentative draft calls for November will be half those of October. Mahoning County boards will be able to fill their quotas with single men.

If results of a seven-county survey are typical of the rest of Ohio, Ohioans are observing closely the new rubber-saving 35-mph speed limit.