Monday, October 30, 2017
Today is Monday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2017. There are 62 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1921: The silent film classic “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles.
1938: The radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS.
1953: Gen. George C. Marshall is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Albert Schweitzer receives the Peace Prize.
1974: Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” to regain his world heavyweight title.
2002: Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), a rapper with the hip-hop group Run-DMC, is killed in a shooting in New York. He was 37.
2012: A weakening Superstorm Sandy inches inland across Pennsylvania, leaving behind it a dazed, inundated New York City, a waterlogged Atlantic Coast and a moonscape of disarray and debris. The New York Stock Exchange closes for a second day from weather, the first time that has happened since the Great Blizzard of 1888.
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1992: Federal and state agents are sifting through the rubble of the Casablanca Mediterranean Restaurant on Youngstown Warren Road in Niles, seeking the cause of an explosion and fire that destroyed it.
Responding to complaints that city offices and the courts are woefully unprotected, Youngstown officials are installing metal detectors at City Hall and increasing the security detail.
St. Matthias School at 2800 Shady Run Road will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a Mass and a visit by Bishop James Malone of he Youngstown Catholic Diocese.
1977: The Youngstown area drops from the third largest industrial region in Ohio in 1947 to seventh by 1972, U.S. Census figures show. Mahoning and Trumbull counties have 603 industrial establishments employing 86,600 people, compared with 552 plants employing 108,000 in 1947.
While some steel mills are curtailing operations, U.S. Steel Corp. continues its studies toward construction of a green-field mill at Conneaut.
In area football action, Youngstown State University coasts past Wayne State, 31-10, and Coach Jerry Fields’ North High Bulldogs tie Rayen, 16-16, to clinch the City Series title.
1967: Two Lutheran groups mark the 450th anniversary of the Reformation with more than 1,300 attending observances at Boardman High School and Frank Ohl Junior High in Austintown.
A former Boardman Township police officer scheduled to go on trial for receiving stolen property pleads guilty before Judge Elwyn Jenkins.
Arrangements for Salem’s 5th Halloween parade and costume judging are complete. The event, expected to attract 2,500 masked and costumed revelers, is sponsored by the American Legion and Salem merchants.
1942: Sgt. Edward Osborne, son of Dr. and Mrs. Leo Osborne of Canfield, is awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action as part of a Flying Fortress that attacked a Japanese fleet in Macassar Strait.
Ohio public schools will be able to carry on their present program, which is guaranteed by a $20 million surplus in the state treasury, Gov. Bricker tells delegates of the NEOTA in Cleveland.
Two Youngstown companies, Commercial Shearing & Stamping and Truscon Steel, are contributing large quantities of materials for building Liberty ships that are being assembled at 68 different shipyards.