Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2018. There are 73 days left in the year.
Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2018. There are 73 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1781: British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution nears its end.
1789: John Jay is sworn in as the first chief justice of the United States.
1864: Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s soldiers attack Union forces at Cedar Creek, Va.; the Union troops rally to defeat the Confederates.
1944: The U.S. Navy begins accepting black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
1950: During the Korean Conflict, United Nations forces enter the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1987: The stock market crashes as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value (its biggest daily percentage loss), to close at 1,738.74 in what came to be known as “Black Monday.”
2005:A defiant Saddam Hussein pleads innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture.
2017: Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House about a month after Hurricane Maria, describes the situation in the island territory as “catastrophic”; Trump rates the White House response to the disaster as a “10.”
VINDICATOR FILES
1993: The Ohio Auditor’s Office begins a three-week investigation into records at the Youngstown Board of Education, Treasurer Ralph Logozzo says.
LTV Corp. emerges from bankruptcy and earns $400,000 on sales of $1.1 billion in the third quarter of the year.
The Ohio Department of Development’s International Trade Division is recruiting Ohio automotive and related product companies for a trade mission to Beijing, China.
1978: Stewart Udall, former secretary of the Interior, tells The Vindicator during an appearance in Conneaut that a mill U.S. Steel proposes for Conneaut would have a serious detrimental effect on the company’s existing mills in Youngstown and other cities.
The Niles Historical Society proposes that the home on the Clingan-Waddell 97-acre estate on the city’s South Side be turned into a museum. The family is donating the homestead for use as a city park.
Representatives of Warner Cable Communications say Youngstown’s first cable-TV installations should be completed in the spring on the city’s West Side.
1968: Fifty original paintings with a total value of $15,260 are sold at the Youngstown Arts Festival for Project HOPE, Dr. John J. McDonough, director, announces.
Five forged Youngstown City School District checks are cashed in district stores for a total of $1,050. The checks are among 150 old checks that were supposed to have been burned 15 years ago but apparently have fallen into the wrong hands.
Dr. Nevin S. Craver, 70, prominent Youngstown veterinarian for more than 40 years, is pronounced dead of a heart attack in the emergency room of North Side Hospital.
1943: Immediate construction of another Youngstown district flood control and water supply reservoir costing about $7 million is asked by the Mississippi Valley Association during its convention. It would be built on the Shenango River.
The 5th District Court of Appeals from Canton upholds the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court and orders the city of Youngstown to extend Fifth Avenue through the Henry Stambaugh Municipal Golf Course.