YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 27

Today is Friday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2017. There are 65 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, is published.

1858: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is born in New York City.

1938: DuPont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”

1947: “You Bet Your Life,” a comedy quiz show starring Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC Radio. (It later became a television show on NBC.)

1962: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft is shot down while flying over Cuba, killing the pilot, U.S. Air Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr.

1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.

2004: The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 4, 3-0.

2016: Law-enforcement officers dressed in riot gear evict protesters from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, dramatically escalating a monthslong dispute over Native American rights and the project’s environmental impact.

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1992: Milton Bacon, 44, of Glenwood Avenue, is shot to death during a robbery on Youngstown’s South Side, bringing the city’s homicide toll in 1992 to 44.

The first right-hand drive Jeep Cherokee rolls off the assembly line in Toledo for export to Japan and the United Kingdom.

Correctional Medical Systems of St. Louis is awarded a $1 million annual contract to provide medical care to inmates at the new Trumbull Correctional Institution in Warren.

1977: The presidents of several Youngstown-area United Steelworkers locals have been exploring the possibility of purchasing some of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Youngstown District facilities.

President Jimmy Carter tells the Congressional Steel Caucus that his administration is working on a new policy to revive the ailing steel industry, but he cautions Congress against “going off on a tangent.”

The Regional Growth Division of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce is courting 70 businesses and industries for location in the area, several of which require immediate attention, says Laird Eckman, division director.

1967: Army Sgt. Carl W. Oliver, 36, of Lake Milton dies of wounds suffered during a night engagement in Vietnam. He is Mahoning County’s 42nd war fatality.

Youngstown Law Director Patrick Melillo is studying former 1st Ward Councilman David O’Neil’s request for a lawsuit to stop the city from installing mercury vapor lights for Rayen Stadium.

Damage is estimated at $4,000 in a fire at Al Wagner Motor Sales building on Market Street. The fire started in a stack of furnace filters.

1942: Rear Admiral William Watts, U.S. Navy retired, highlight’s the celebration of Navy Day, awarding the Army-Navy “E” to Youngstown Welding and Engineering Co.

Harold Jones of McDonald, a machinist’s mate third class aboard the aircraft carrier Wasp, which was sunk Sept. 15, tells how a destroyer rescued him three hours after he plunged into the South Pacific.

Isabelle Harris, Warren Avenue, enters the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps training at Des Moines, Iowa. She has been on the Youngstown Public Library staff.