YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 13

Today is Saturday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2018. There are 79 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

A.D. 54: Roman Emperor Claudius I dies, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina.

1775: The United States Navy has its origins when the Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet.

1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, is laid by President George Washington in the District of Columbia.

1845: Texas voters ratify a state constitution.

1932: President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes lay the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building.

1943: Italy declares war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.

1999: In Boulder, Colo., the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury is dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen’s 1996 slaying.

1999: The Senate rejects the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

2010: Rescuers in Chile using a missile-like escape capsule pulled 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground.

2017: President Donald Trump accuses Iran of violating the 2015 nuclear accord, but did not pull the U.S. out of the deal.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Edna D. Pincham of Youngstown is inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame by Gov. George Voinovich.

Youngstown officials are exploring the feasibility of consolidating all Police Department operations in the Erie Terminal building.

R.J. Wean III, former president and CEO of Wean Inc., says several parties have shown interest in buying the company’s Canadian assets, Wean Canada Ltd.

1978: A tornado touches down in Winona, leveling a house on Whinnery Road and injuring its occupants, Howard and Myrtle Bailey and their two daughters, who were trapped in the basement.

Mahoning County deputies raid houses in Youngstown, Boardman and New Springfield, arresting five men and recovering 15 pounds of marijuana, other drugs, guns and stolen property.

Herman Jackson is the new head football coach of North High School. His assistants are Hugh Frost and Joe Little.

1968: More than 22,000 volumes for adults and children are available at the new Brownlee Woods Branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County.

Grove City and Westminster colleges celebrate their homecomings. Judy Winkler of Pittsburgh’s North Hills is Grove City’s queen, and Carol Kenworthy of Roslyn, Pa., is Westminster’s queen.

Two men are appointed to new positions at the Youngstown Hospital Association. Eugene Stears will be director of medical records, and Milan Barto will be credit manager.

1943: Construction of sewage disposal plants for Youngstown and four other district cities in the Ohio River Valley watershed is part of a $200 million federal project to eliminate pollution.

A 23-year-old Lowellville man is arrested as the driver of a car that struck and seriously injured Dorothy Sloan as she was crossing Federal at Hazel streets. The driver was driving without a license.

More than 200 women from 18 to 35 years of age have registered in the local drive to become USO hostesses and will undergo training.