YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 16

Today is Monday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2017. There are 76 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1793: During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, is beheaded.

1859: Radical abolitionist John Brown leads a group of 21 men in a raid on Harpers Ferry in western Virginia.

1916: Planned Parenthood has its beginnings as Margaret Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, open the first birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y.

1934: Chinese Communists, under siege by the Nationalists, begin their “long march” lasting a year from southeastern to northwestern China.

1946: Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials are hanged.

1968: American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos spark controversy at the Mexico City Olympics by giving “black power” salutes.

1978: The College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church choose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope; he takes the name John Paul II.

1987: A 58 Ω-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in a narrow, abandoned well.

1991: A deadly shooting rampage takes place in Killeen, Texas, as a gunman opens fire at a Luby’s Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Youngstown police storm the city jail to quell a riot in two over-crowded cell ranges as inmates set fires, stuff toilets and break glass. Two prisoners are charged with inciting violence.

More than 200 area nurses, including one who earned her cap in 1925, turn out for a reunion of the Youngstown Hospital Association’s nursing school at Mr. Anthony’s.

The Newton Falls Chamber of Commerce is having trouble attracting new members to leadership roles and may have to disband or merge with the Warren Chamber of Commerce.

1977: The Youngstown Municipal Airport is undergoing $6 million expansion program, materially improving the airports advantages in helping attract job-creating industrial firms to the area, says airport manager Fred DeLuca.

Ohio will lose 11,200 jobs and $473 in production and revenue due to Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. cutbacks, according to a computer study by the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus.

The Youngstown State University Penguins play four strong quarters in a 28-10 upset of Akron University in the Rubber Bowl.

1967: The first of several school health clinics sponsored by the East Palestine Board of Health and school officials is scheduled at Captain Taggert and Elma Sutherin schools. Pupils will get oral polio vaccines, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus shots.

Several Youngstown State University administrators, including President Albert Pugsley, are moving into newly renovated offices on Wick Avenue in what had been the residence of retired President Howard Jones.

Visitors at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Steele and Mr. and Mrs. W. Stanley Sheldon are three nurses from Sweden on a three-month tour of the United States.

1942: The War Production Board, in conjunction with the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will take for scrap any old cars brought to the Rayen School yard.

The Vindicator will divide $250 worth of prizes among winning high-school scrap collecting teams in the citywide scrap drive.