Today is Friday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2017. There are 72 days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2017. There are 72 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1714: The coronation of Britain’s King George I takes place in Westminster Abbey.

1803: The U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.

1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged Communist influence and infiltration in the U.S. motion picture industry.

1967: A jury in Meridian, Miss., convicts seven men of violating the civil rights of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. The seven receive prison terms ranging from three to 10 years.

1968: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

1973: In the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre,” special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resign.

1977: Three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, were killed along with three others in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Miss.

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1992: An additional 317 employees of Sharon Steel Corp. are laid off, bringing the total number on furlough to more than 1,300.

A photograph of the WCI Steel Co. caster by Boardman Township resident Perc Kelty is selected for exhibit at the Eastman Kodak Co.’s Marketing Education Center in Henrietta, N.Y.

The Witmer-Smith women’s clothing store, a downtown Sharon landmark since the turn of the century, announces it’s going out of business.

1977: Youngstown’s three candidates for mayor, Republican Emanuel Catsoules, Independent Ron Daniels and Democrat J. Phillip Richley, discuss their plans for revitalizing the inner city during a debate on WFMJ-TV.

A delegation of Mahoning Valley officials go to Washington hoping for financial support for the area after Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s cutbacks, but get little more than sympathy.

More than 300 production and office workers at the Peerless Electric Division of H.K. Porter Co. in Warren are back to work after ratifying a new contract, ending a 20-day strike.

1967: The Poland Board of Education gives teachers raises that are consistent with new state minimums. The starting salary for teachers is $5,600, increasing to $8,200 after 12 years.

A huge bonfire rally will be held for the Springfield Local football team on the elementary school grounds. Admission fee is wood for the fire.

United Construction Co. takes out a permit to construct Boardman’s first high-rise apartment, a five-story building at West Boulevard and Shields Road., abutting Mill Creek Park.

1942: Jerome Starr, former South High School student, a gunner on a cargo boat, is one of 16 survivors of a Nazi submarine torpedoing 600 miles out in the Atlantic. He spends five days on a life raft.

U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, D-Youngstown, declines an invitation by the League of Women Voters to participate in a candidates forum because he would not sit at the same table as his opponent, Republican James Beggs, who, he says, chose not to serve in World War I or the Spanish-Ameircan War and “sold America short” when he served in Congress from the Sandusky area.

Aircraftsman William Greaves of the Royal Air Force, visiting Thomas Gent on South Avenue Ext., plunges into the campaign to gather scrap metal.