Today is Monday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2017. There are 69 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2017. There are 69 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date:

1864: Forces led by Union Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis repel Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price’s army in the Civil War Battle of Westport in Missouri.

1941: The Walt Disney animated feature “Dumbo,” about a young circus elephant who learns how to fly, premieres in New York.

1944: The World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, resulting in a major Allied victory against Japanese forces.

1946: The United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for the first time at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow.

1956: A student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule begins. As the revolution spreads, Soviet forces start entering the country, and the uprising is put down within weeks.

1963: The Neil Simon comedy “Barefoot in the Park,” starring Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford, opens on Broadway.

1973: President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica.

2001: The nation’s anthrax scare hits the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail processing center.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Phar-Mor Inc. can begin receiving holiday shipments and return to doing business on credit after bankruptcy Judge William Bodoh approves a $150 million financing plan.

Speaking at an Integra Bank leadership luncheon in Brookfield, former speaker of the House “Tip” O’Neill says the United States is falling apart at the seams, and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton will be America’s choice to pull it back together.

Five Youngstown area men receive the traditional white fezzes designating them as honorary life members of the Buckeye Elks: Patrick V. Kerrigan, George McKelvey, John Moliterno, Gary Thornton Sr. and Sterling Williams.

1977: Canfield third-graders from both C.H. Campbell and Hilltop schools are learning local history in hands-on fashion, including a trip up the tower of the old courthouse at the south end of Canfield Green to ring the bell.

The Pentagon is monitoring cutbacks in the steel industry, including in the Mahoning Valley, to make certain that the nation does not become dependent on foreign steel.

A Lawrence County, Pa., native, William V. McBride, a four-star general, is vice chief of the Air Force.

1967: John S. Andrews, Youngstown financial consultant and civic leader, is named vice president of the American Heart Association at its convention in San Francisco.

Navy Lt. John J. Rhodes, 28, a graduate of Boardman High School and the General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich., is killed when a jeep in which he was riding strikes a land mine near Phu Bai, Vietnam.

The ongoing strike by steel haulers has cut shipments from Youngstown steel mills to 60 percent of normal, causing a stockpile of 200,000 tons of steel in warehouses and lots.

1942: Mary Louis Kachmer, Chaney High student and a neighbor of U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, will break the bottle of wine used to dedicate Berlin Reservoir.

High-school principals are told by Youngstown Supt. George Bowman that students must be “vigorously discouraged” from driving cars to school, in the national interest and in the interest of safety.

A 15-year-old East High School girl fights off a masked assailant who attacks her about 7:30 a.m. as she was walking to school.