Today is Saturday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2018. There are 72 days left in the year.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2018. There are 72 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1936: Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, dies in Forest Hills, N.Y., at 70.

1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged Communist influence and infiltration in the U.S. motion picture industry.

1968: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

1973: In the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre,” special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resign.

1977: Three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, are killed along with three others in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Miss.

2001: Officials announce that anthrax has been discovered in a House postal facility on Capitol Hill.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Youngstown’s new classroom inclusion model comes under attack with three teachers, two students and one parent telling the Board of Education that mainstreaming special-education students into conventional classrooms is setting them up to fail.

Trumbull Correctional Institution officials agree to review complaints by some inmates in the segregation unit, ending a short-lived hunger strike by eight prisoners.

Burglars worked hard to load a two-ton safe into a stolen pick-up truck at the Seven-Up Royal Crown Bottling Co. on Meridian Road, only to have the safe roll off the truck at Wellington and Lakeview avenues, taking the tailgate of the truck with it. The safe contained as much as $20,000.

1978: Speaking at Youngstown State University, William Spratley, Ohio Consumers Counsel, says the Public Utilities Commission should have a say in environmental issues that affect the economy of electric utilities and the state.

Five wells will be drilled in Trumbull County by Columbia Gas System to obtain natural gas from tightly compressed shale formations that underlie much of Appalachia.

Youngstown State University has four sets of brothers on its football team: Frank and Bob Lombardi, Ralph and Tony Orsini, Steve and Don Brooks and Craig and Perry Nicholas.

1968: The Vindicator seeks photographs Youngstown residents may have showing local celebrations following the end of World War I. The paper has the printed copies of the extra editions for Nov. 11, 1918, but has been unable to locate pictures.

Thirteen area men pass the state bar examinations: Alan R. Kretzer, Walter J. Tims, Frederick H. McDonald, Carl D. Rafoth, Robert J. Vesmas, David P. Reichard, Paul A. Stratigos, David R. White, John P. Downey, Joseph DeSantos, Walter J. Hollander, Thomas T. Grimmett and Mark E. Kaufman.

James K. McLaughlin of Canfield is named vice president/sales of Ajax Magnethermic Corp.

1943: Capt. Charles Daley, 77, Youngstown’s oldest firefighter and for many years holder of badge No. 1, dies at his home on Falls Avenue from a stroke. He was on the department for 52 years, stationed at the Falls Avenue station.

Butchers who snubbed customers in days before rationing have the tables turned as housewives are refusing to surrender their precious red points for inferior grades.

Opening at the Palace Theater in downtown Youngstown: “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Matinees, 75 cents; evenings, $1.10. Servicemen, 50 cents and 75 cents.