YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 25
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2017. There are 67 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1415: During the Hundred Years’ War, outnumbered English soldiers led by Henry V defeat French troops in the Battle of Agincourt in northern France.
1760: Britain’s King George III succeeds his late grandfather, George II.
1854: The “Charge of the Light Brigade” takes place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men charges the Russian army, suffering heavy losses. (Russia would lose the war in 1856.)
1945: Taiwan becomes independent of Japanese colonial rule.
1954: A meeting of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet is carried live on radio and television. To date, it’s the only presidential Cabinet meeting to be broadcast.
1957: Mob boss Albert Anastasia of “Murder Inc.” notoriety is shot to death by masked gunmen in a barber shop inside the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York.
1971: The U.N. General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1983: A U.S.-led force invades Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who says the action is needed to protect U.S. citizens there.
2016: The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 in the World Series opener.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: In a pre-election survey, Youngstown area small-businessmen say rising health care costs are among their top concerns.
There is a lot of moral support in the Shenango Valley for cash-strapped Sharon Steel as it struggles to raise the working capital it needs to survive as the Valley’s single-largest employer with 2,700 workers.
Eighteen Mahoning and Shenango valley high- school seniors are named semifinalists in the 1993 National Merit Scholarship Program: Sarah Gilpin, Ken Lenga, Heather Malamisura, Kirsten Nelson, Michael Thompson, Erich Cramer, Jessica Grisham, Michael Priester, Christine Curtis, Jenna Beh, Patricia Moore, Gregary Butchey, Alexander Limkekeng, Jason Shaffer, Karen Bishop, Todd Waldman, Ankur Chandra and Andrew Newill.
1977: Harry S. Marr, a former Mahoning County deputy sheriff, graduates from the U.S. Border Patrol Academy in Glynco, Ga., and will be assigned as a patrol agent at the El Paso, Texas, border-patrol sector.
About 40 health agencies will participate in the second annual free Mahoning County Health-O-Rama at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Boardman.
Dom Rosselli, Youngstown State University basketball coach for 33 years, baseball coach for 23 years and assistant football coach at various times will be roasted as “Man of the Year” by the Uptown Kiwanis Club.
1967: The operations of the Youngstown Area Community Action Council will be evaluated, says Dr. Sidney Roberts, chairman.
Nine McDonald High School students are disciplined by the board of education for a beer and wine party on the football practice field after the McDonald-Lowellville game.
The Post Office says it will erect a three-story building in the downtown urban-renewal area instead of a single-floor warehouse.
1942: Lumber being cut while clearing the 6,600-acre reservation at the Berlin Dam in Mahoning, Portage and Stark counties is being cut into packing-case material and shipped to the Ravenna ordnance plant for ammunition.
War Production Board officials, checking the Youngstown area, estimate there are 7,400 old cars that can be considered nothing but scrap, and owners are urged to sell them as such.