YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 29

Today is Sunday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2017. There are 63 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, is executed in London for treason.

1787: The opera “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has its world premiere in Prague.

1901: President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.

1929: Wall Street crashes on “Black Tuesday,” heralding the start of America’s Great Depression.

1979: On the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear demonstrators try but fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

2012: Superstorm Sandy slams ashore in New Jersey and slowly marches inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages. the storm and its aftermath were blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S.

2016: The Cleveland Indians move within one victory of their first championship since 1948, routing the Chicago Cubs 7-2.

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1992: Azco Salt Co.’s executive vice president, G.R. Thompson, says he’s cautiously optimistic that a multi-million dollar salt facility will be built in Jackson Township.

State, federal and local drug agents carry out perhaps the biggest drug raid in Columbiana County history, confiscating 400 marijuana plants, automatic firearms and tens of thousands of dollars from a house on state Route 517 near Lisbon.

The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Jim Leyland is named National League manager of the year.

1977: President Jimmy Carter announces the appointment of J. Phillip Richley, Democratic nominee for mayor of Youngstown and a former director of the Ohio Department of Transportation, to the 12-member National Highway Safety Advisory Committee.

Three men armed with a shotgun and two pistols rob the cashier and two patrons at the Foster Theater, 2504 Glenwood Ave., of an undetermined amount of money.

Youngstown State University will receive $7 million from the state toward a new $13 million sports complex and $2 million toward a $7 million parking deck.

1967: “President [Lyndon Johnson] does not seek surrender in Vietnam,” U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan writes to Trumbull County Commissioner Robert E. Hagan, who asked Kirwan to commit to a planned withdrawal of troops from Vietnam.

Five recreation projects in Mahoning and Trumbull counties are among 29 improvements under construction in Northeastern Ohio worth $372,000 in federal funds in fiscal 1968.

Youngsters at the County Children’s Home will have new outfits thanks to Northway Neighborhood Girl Scouts.

1942: U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan says his Republican challenger, Cleveland businessman James T. Beggs, bragged in the spring that he could take a city directory and telephone book from any town and get elected to Congress. Kirwan says he doesn’t know why Beggs chose the 19th District, but its voters won’t be fooled.

Although Mahoning County draft boards have been notified that they can begin calling up married men in December, it appears unlikely that they will have to.

The Youngstown Municipal Railway has added an extra trip on its early morning schedule to Poland to aid Poland war workers.