YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 24
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2017. There are 68 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1537: Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, dies 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI.
1648: The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War and effectively destroys the Holy Roman Empire.
1861: The first transcontinental telegraph message is sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.
1939: DuPont begins publicly selling its nylon stockings in Wilmington, Del.
1945: The United Nations officially comes into existence as its charter takes effect.
1952:Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declares in Detroit, “I shall go to Korea,” as he promised to end the conflict.
1962: A naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John F. Kennedy goes into effect during the missile crisis.
2002: Authorities apprehend Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo near Myersville, Md., in the Washington-area sniper attacks. (Malvo was later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.)
2016: Campaigning in battleground Florida, a defiant Donald Trump blames his campaign struggles on “phony polls” from the “disgusting” media.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: The Ohio Supreme Court stays the execution of Danny Lee Hill for the 1985 murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife of Warren, pending an appeal of Hill’s death sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court. Various possible appeals could continue for a decade or more. (Twenty-five years later, Hill remains on Death Row.)
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. speaks at Poland Middle School, after which a mock political rally and election take place. Bill Clinton tops Ross Perot and President George Bush in that vote.
A Campbell man, Charles R. Flesch sues Struthers police for more than $50,000, claiming they used excessive force in breaking his arm in three places during an arrest for a crime he did not commit. His attorney, Paul Gains, says Struthers Police Chief Valent Granchie has tolerated police misconduct and failed to adequately train officers.
1977: The $4 million Gordon D. James Career Center at Lordstown is dedicated. About 4,000 people toured the building during an open house.
Youngstown State University and Kent State University are the only state universities in Ohio to show a decrease in fall enrollment.
Kathleen Johnson, coordinator of home visitation for Youngstown City Schools for 15 years, is honored by hundreds of friends and well-wishers for years of service to the disadvantaged at a dinner at First Christian Church.
1967: The largest of four Perkins Pancake Houses in the area is under construction at 2704 Belmont Ave. Operators are Jack Betts and Lamar Jacobs, who also operate the Boardman site.
1942: A half-dozen jalopies will be torched for scrap at the old Rayen School campus. They include two trucks of the Genessee Distributing Co.
Construction of the $6.6 million Berlin Dam and Reservoir will not be halted even for the dedication ceremony. Visitors will see the working forces in operation.
The Rev. John Archibald, assistant pastor of St. Patrick Church in Youngstown, is released by the Cleveland Diocese to join the Army as chaplain.