Today is Tuesday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2018. There are 76 days left in the year.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2018. There are 76 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1758: American lexicographer Noah Webster is born in Hartford, Conn.

1793: During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, is beheaded.

1916: Planned Parenthood has its beginnings as Margaret Sanger and her sister open the first birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y.

1962: The Cuban missile crisis begins as President John F. Kennedy is informed that reconnaissance photographs have revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.

1978: The College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church choose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope; he takes the name John Paul II.

1987: A 581/2-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ends happily as rescuers free Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in a narrow, abandoned well.

1991: A deadly shooting rampage takes place in Killeen, Texas, as a gunman opens fire at a Luby’s Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life.

2001: Twelve Senate offices are closed as hundreds of staffers undergo anthrax tests.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Ashtabula retailer Carlisle’s, which has 14 stores in Ohio and Pennsylvania, files for bankruptcy protection during reorganization. Store officials says there are no plans to close any stores.

Edison Junior High School Principal Barbara Weaver says she is checking the prices for fabric curtains for bathroom stalls, but there are no plans to install doors on the stalls. Students at the Niles school participated in a daylong strike protesting a number of issues, including the lack of doors on some stalls in both boys and girls bathrooms.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland, D-17th, is seeking regional support to prepare for the possibility of the Pentagon’s leasing local space for a defense payroll center.

1978: Niles Parks and Recreation Director Carmen Vivolo says the U.S. Economic Development Agency will not fund the renovation of Waddell Park pool, a project expected to cost $250,000.

The Supreme Court of the U.S. upholds the Environmental Protection Agency’s stringent rules against air pollution in Ohio, which electric utility companies say will increase rates by 3 percent.

With a 56-33 victory over Central State, Coach Bill Narduzzi’s Youngstown State University Penguins remain unbeaten, one of only six Ohio universities to remain so.

1968: Nearly 50 vehicles, including 40 at Kroehle Lincoln Mercury on Wick Avenue are damaged by debris from a dynamite explosion set off by an A.P. O’Horo construction crew working on the Madison Avenue Expressway.

Pete the Penguin, YSU’s live mascot, poses with his keeper, Henry Dalverny, and six of the seven candidates for homecoming queen: Florita Stubbs, Karen Conklin, Madeline Banjo, Margie Sfara, Becky Hall and Sherri Rider.

Joseph Hazek, 71, of East Myrtle Avenue, goes to Cleveland Hopkins Airport to meet his wife, Mary, 71, who arrived from Czechoslovakia. The couple last saw each other when she was a bride of four years and was reluctant to leave home.

1943: Six juveniles from 14 to 18 are sentenced by Judge Henry Beckenbach to indeterminate terms at the Boys Industrial School in Lancaster for a string of 10 burglaries.

The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce national affairs committee headed by James E. Bennett recommends a national sales tax for financing the war.

A sixth Youngstowner is arrested by FBI agents after being accused of operating a white slavery ring between Youngstown and Honolulu. The five men and a woman face indictment by a federal grand jury in Cleveland.