YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 6

Today is Saturday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2018. There are 86 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1683: Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrive in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settlements.

1892: British poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson dies in Surrey, England, at age 83.

1927: The era of talking pictures arrives with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a feature containing both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.

1939: In a speech to the Reichstag, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks of his plans to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe – a plan that would entail settling the “Jewish problem.”

1949: President Harry S. Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, providing $1.3 billion in military aid to NATO countries.

1973: War erupts in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

1979: Pope John Paul II, on a weeklong U.S. tour, becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House, where President Jimmy Carter receives him.

1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

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1993: The Youngstown Education Association overwhelmingly approves a new contract, and teachers and students return to class for the first time since Sept. 9.

Internationally known columnist Jack Anderson speaks at the fall luncheon of the Integra Bank Executives Club at the Tiffany Banquet Center in Brookfield, describing President Clinton’s foreign policy as one of good intentions that has yielded few accomplishments.

General Electric announces plans to spend $15 million to modernize its 100-year-old Ohio Lamp Plant in Warren. The building’s history goes back to 1890 when brothers J.W. and W.D. Packard manufactured iridescent lamps there.

1978: John Tidwell Jr. of Warren is found guilty in California of first-degree murder in the shotgun slaying of Harold Rinehart, a Midway City, Calif., teenager, who had been an accomplice in a $100,000 burglary in Oregon.

The Youngstown Board of Education approves a $500-per-year pay raise for teachers that will bring the starting salary for a teacher to $10,200.

Advertisement: 1979 Custom Deluxe Chevrolet pickup truck, 250 cu. in., 6-cylinder engine, 3-speed transmission, $4,195 at State Chevrolet, 1201 Wick Ave.

1968: Edward W. Powers, who donated $250,000 to buy the Warner Theater and convert it into a symphony center, admits that he is not a fan of classical music, “but I thought it would be a good thing for downtown Youngstown, and people would enjoy it.”

A medical assistance fund is created to help with expenses of Miss Cecilia Bracken, a victim of facial injuries during violence after the North-South football game.

1943: Lt. Joseph Liebman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Liebman of Ohio Avenue and a navigator on a Flying Fortress, is awarded the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf clusters after completing 17 bombing missions over Europe.