YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 3

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2018. There are 89 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1955: “Captain Kangaroo” and “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiere on CBS and ABC, respectively.

1967: Folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie dies in New York of complications from Huntington’s disease; he was 55.

1991: Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton enters the 1992 race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1995: The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles finds the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable for damages in a civil trial).

2001: The Senate approves an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.

2003: A tiger attacks magician Roy Horn of duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving the superstar illusionist in critical condition on his 59th birthday.

2008: O.J. Simpson is found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room.

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1993: The Rescue Mission of Youngstown, founded in 1893 among the tenements of East Federal Street as Christ Mission Settlement, is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

Five men have been arrested on a charge of solicitation after offering an undercover policewoman $10 to $20 for sex acts and as many as 15 will be sent warning letters based on Youngstown police seeing their cars circle the block where prostitutes are known to operate.

Youngstown State University’s sophomore quarterback Mark Brungard, a graduate of Springfield Local High, directs a brilliant offensive attack that produced a 26-22 victory over Eastern Kentucky at the Colonels’ home field.

1978: Mayor J. Phillip Richley adjusts the work schedule he instituted for City Hall workers, which had required them to work from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an unpaid hour for lunch. The new hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a half-hour for lunch, but employees still want a return to pre-Richley hours: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with an hour for lunch.

St. Elizabeth Hospital will raise its room rates by $8. Semi-private rooms will be $99; private rooms, $104, and deluxe private rooms, $112.

Margaret S. Sramcik of Cambridge, Ohio, is the first woman member of the Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars. As an Army nurse, she served in North Africa during World War II.

1968: Kickoff time will be 5 p.m. for all six Youngstown high schools in an effort to head off any possible repetition of recent violence after football games.

A warning against student unrest or demonstrations that might disrupt Youngstown State University was contained in words of welcome during an official convocation program for 5,000 new freshmen at YSU.

The Mahoning County Veterans Council’s appeal for permission to erect a war memorial honoring Vietnam War casualties is taken under advisement by county commissioners.

1943: The war toll for the greater Youngstown area: 245 dead, 254 wounded, 120 missing and 131 captured.

Americans have gone nearly $2 billion over their quota of $15 billion in the Third Liberty Loan Drive, and residents of Mahoning County raised $27 million, exceeding the quota by $11 million.

Youngstown milk dealers must limit sales of fluid milk and milk byproducts to a certain quota in keeping with a program announced by War Food Administration designed to stabilize fluid-milk consumption.