YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 31

YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 31

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2017. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1517: Martin Luther sends his 95 Theses denouncing what he saw as the abuses of the Catholic Church, especially the sale of indulgences, to the Archbishop of Mainz, Germany, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation.

1795: English poet John Keats is born in London.

1864: Nevada becomes the 36th state as President Abraham Lincoln signs a proclamation.

1926: Magician Harry Houdini dies in Detroit from a ruptured appendix.

1941: The Navy destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives.

1975: The Queen single “Bohemian Rhapsody” is released by EMI Records.

1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.

1999: EgyptAir Flight 990, bound from New York to Cairo, crashes off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.

2016: Pope Francis marks the upcoming 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation by traveling to secular Sweden, where he encourages Catholics and Lutherans to forgive the “errors” of the past.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Charges are filed against five in the shooting death of Milton Bacon, 42, of Glenwood Avenue, who was gunned down while his car was being stolen. One is 16 years old, two are 17, one is 18, and one is 21.

A Vindicator poll of 806 registered voters in Mahoning and Trumbull counties shows about 55 percent support term limits for elected state and federal officials.

The Chaney Cowboys sweep to their third straight City Series championship with a 42-6 victory over South High.

1977: The newly formed Youngstown Religious Coalition has a two-day conference at First Presbyterian Church and develops a program aimed at alleviating the effects of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. cutbacks and maintaining the area’s steel-based economy.

The Polson Rubber Co. announces it is ceasing operations in Garrettsville after 43 years, costing the town 400 jobs and 40 percent of its tax base.

The Youngstown State University women’s volleyball team wins a triangular match in Pittsburgh against St. Francis College and Duquesne. Standouts are Paula Patrizi, Roseanne Napolitan, Judy Rutz, Linda Fredricks, Beth Fenton and Cathy Taylor.

1967: The Youngstown Board of Education raises tuition for the Choffin School of Practical Nursing from $200 to $325 and adopts new salary schedule in line with state mandated minimums.The school lost $5,000 in 1966.

Tammy Tabak, 21-year-old junior from Lowellville, is Youngstown State University’s homecoming queen. Members of her court are Sharon Stewart of Niles and Marjorie Yinger of Youngstown.

Three new cadet patrolmen are sworn in as Youngstown patrolmen: James Franceshelli, Anthony James D’Apolito and John W. Averhart Jr.

1942: Speaking to 1,200 women at the Republican Women’s Club meeting at the Hotel Pick-Ohio, Mrs. Robert Taft, wife of Ohio’s senator, stresses the need for a two-party system to counteract “the dictatorial effects of rubber-stamp politics.”

Edward McGinnis reports to police a man entered his Custer Avenue yard with a hatchet and cut down all his shrubbery. He then went to the residence of Mrs. Edna Sloss and cut down a lilac bush, mulberry tree and other shrubs.

Water Commissioner Innocenzo Vagnozzi says he agrees with the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce that surplus funds of the Water Department should be used to pay down debt of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.