YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 14

Today is Sunday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2018. There are 78 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1586: Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. (Mary was beheaded in February 1587.)

1912: Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, is shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he goes ahead with a scheduled speech.

1922: The first Thom McAn shoe store in the nation opens on Third Avenue in New York City.

1926: “Winnie-the-Pooh” by A.A. Milne is first published by Methuen & Co. of London.

1930: George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin’s musical “Girl Crazy” starring Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman premieres in New York.

1933: Nazi Germany announces it is withdrawing from the League of Nations.

1939: A German U-boat torpedoes and sinks the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard are killed.

1947: U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager becomes the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

1953: Great Britain performs a nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia

1960: The idea of a Peace Corps is suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

1964: Civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1968: The first successful live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft is transmitted from Apollo 7.

1977: Singer Bing Crosby dies outside Madrid, Spain, at age 74.

1987: A 58-hour drama begins in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slides 22 feet down a narrow abandoned well at a private day care center. (She would be rescued on Oct. 16.)

2001: As U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush sternly rejects a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country.

2007: The reality TV show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” premieres on E! Entertainment Television.

2008: Big banks start falling in line behind a revised bailout plan that is fast becoming more of a buy-in; the Bush administration announces it will fork over as much as $250 billion in exchange for partial ownership.

A grand jury in Orlando, Fla., returns charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter against Casey Anthony, a former Warren, Ohio, resident in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. (She was acquitted in July 2011.)

2013: Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Robert Shiller of Yale University are named recipients of the Nobel prize in economics.

The Los Angeles Dodgers win their first game of the NL championship series, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 3.

2017: A truck bombing in Somalia’s capital kills more than 500 people in one of the world’s deadliest attacks in years; officials blame the attack on the extremist group al-Shabab and say it was meant to target Mogadishu’s international airport, but the bomb detonated in a crowded street after soldiers opened fire.

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1993: Mahoning County commissioners form the Clear Water Task Force, which will examine the effect of new development on the ability of existing sewers to handle the increased flow without causing flooding.

Youngstown Patrol Officer Donald Kripcak, 40, is in serious condition in Southside Medical Center after being shot during a raid on a suspected drug house at 921 Glenwood Ave.

Donald McKay, president and CEO of Home Savings and Loan Co., is honored as Businessperson of the Year by the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp.

1978: The Rev. Benjamin Hooks, the dynamic national executive director of the NAACP, tells 800 people at the Youngstown NAACP’s annual Freedom Fund dinner that human rights leaders must unite to prevent the erosion of “the advances we have made in the area of civil rights.”

Alice K. Withers, a sophomore at Springfield Local High School, is chosen Ohio Milking Shorthorn Princess of 1978-79 at the annual picnic at Honey Creek Farms in Petersburg.

Copperweld Corp. reports sales of $101 million for the third quarter and net income of $4.6 million, a 59 percent increase over the same quarter a year earlier.

1968: Edison Griffith of Warren is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a gunshot wound of the chest received when he was mistaken by two Cleveland men for a stump as he fished in a game reserve.

Alfred C. Schlatter, 18, a senior at Boardman High School, is killed when his 1964 sports car collides with a pickup truck that police believe went left of center in Youngstown-Hubbard Road. Three young passengers in Schlatter’s car were injured.

Advertisement: Playing at Sinkwich Grill, 51 N. Meridian Road: The Lamplighters, all-girl orchestra, for listening and dancing, every Friday night.

1943: William H. Muldoon, for seven years vice president and general manager of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co., is elected president of Akron Transportation Co. and appointed general manager in full charge of operations.

Dr. Joseph E. Smith, area director of the War Manpower Commission, says under a new stabilization plan no male worker may be hired in the Youngstown area except through the U.S. Employment Service.

Youngstown firefighters make 34 runs to grass fires over two days until a heavy rain brings the epidemic to an end.