Today is Wednesday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2018. There are 75 days left in the year.
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2018. There are 75 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1610: French King Louis XIII, 9, is crowned at Reims, five months after the assassination of his father, Henry IV.
1777: British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrender to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1931: Mobster Al Capone is convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion.
1933: Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1939: Frank Capra’s comedy-drama “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring James Stewart as an idealistic junior U.S. senator, has its premiere in the nation’s capital.
1979: Mother Teresa of India is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1989: An 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes northern California, killing 63 people and causing $6 billion worth of damage.
2008:Wall Street ends a tumultuous week that turns out to be its best in five years with a record 936-point jump and an addition 401-point gain three days later.
2017: Just hours before President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban is due to take effect, a federal judge in Hawaii blocks most of the ban.
VINDICATOR FILES
1993: Victor Posner, ousted from Sharon Steel in 1990 when the company filed bankruptcy, has been collecting a pension check of $7,000 a month, but that amount will be drastically reduced when the Pension Benefit Guarantee Board assumes Sharon’s pensions.
Deer-vehicle collisions are on the rise with 40,000 deer killed in Pennsylvania in 1992 and 20,000 in Ohio.
Cascade Park, the New Castle, Pa., amusement park that has lost the battle against modern theme parks, has attracted a corps of dedicated admirers who want to preserve it as a unique green space and community asset.
1978: Boardman Police Chief Grant Hess, who has been off work since a fall aggravated an old back injury, will resign as chief but keep the rank of captain in the department. Hess served longer than any other chief of the department at four years, five months.
Mrs. Irene Kubaczka Bogatek of Struthers, a native of Poland, was confirmed in the Krakow suburb where she lived by Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, now Pope John Paul II. The Rev. Leon Dobosiewicz, pastor of St. Joseph the Provider Church in Campbell, met Cardinal Wojtyla at a meeting of Polish bishops in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1976.
Ursuline’s golf team will make its fourth consecutive trip to the Class AAA State Golf Tournament. Making the trip are Coach Tony Orlando, Dave Pignanelli, Ralph Naples Jr., Julian Taylor, Dave Meese and Bob Huey.
1968: Liberty Police Chief John W. Bluedorn submits his resignation to township trustees and will take the job of superintendent of the Trumbull County Boys Receiving Home.
Youngstown City Council gives first reading to legislation authorizing a construction contract for redevelopment of Central Square.
Thomas Stofac of Canfield is named an Ohio Bell traffic assistant overseeing dial administration in the Youngstown area. The Niles native had been central office foreman.
1943: A battle to build the “missing link” in the nation’s inland water transportation system – a canal connecting Lake Erie to the Ohio River – is expected to be renewed at the Mississippi Valley Association’s 25th annual convention in St. Louis.
Four boys confess throwing a cabbage that broke the window of an automobile driven by Cpl. Kenneth Bloomquist of Camp Reynolds and seriously cut Mrs. Mary Bloomquist. The four were arrested by Detective Paul Kidder.
Army trucks will come to Youngstown from Bolling Field, Wash., to pick up used radio sets and equipment in a special campaign suggested by Lt. Edward Lees of Youngstown.