Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2018. There are 69 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1915: Tens of thousands of women parade up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
1942: During World War II, Britain launches a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt, resulting in an Allied victory.
1944: The World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, resulting in a major Allied victory against Japanese forces.
1973: President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica.
1983: Some 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, are killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon.
1987: The U.S. Senate rejects, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.
2001: The nation’s anthrax scare hits the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an off-site mail processing center.
2006: Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 24 years, four months for his role in the company’s collapse. (Skilling was released early in August 2018.)
2013: A defensive Obama administration acknowledges its problem-plagued health insurance website didn’t get enough testing before going live.
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1993: An East High School junior, Nick Carter, 16, is shot and killed during a fight after a high school football game at YSU’s Stambaugh Stadium.
Atty. Lewis Myers II, keynote speaker at the Youngstown NAACP Freedom Fund banquet, says he came from Chicago where an ecumenical service was attended by 1,500 gang members from across the country, some as young as 13.
Sharon Police Detective Jack Klaric, who is featured in television commercials for The Club, an auto-theft device, says he’s been paid just $6,841 for his work and wants to negotiate a new contract that would give him a bigger share of the profit being reaped by Winner International.
1978: Kenneth C. Cross, 48, of Valencia was taking pictures with his 20-month-old son in McConnell’s Mill State Park when he slipped into Slippery Rock Creek and drowned. Joseph Huagh, 38, of Natrona Heights saved Cross’ son, Kenta.
The state of Ohio projects that Boardman schools will have to close Dec. 11 because they will be $500,000 short of what’s needed to finish the year.
Patricia Gordon of Cardinal Mooney High School wins the Mahoning County Junior Miss Scholarship Pageant. Members of her court are Carolyn Houlihan of Ursuline, Karen Peters of Canfield, Andrea Sylvester of Poland Seminary and Wendy Hudak of Chaney.
1968: Five people, including three children, are injured when their car failed to make a curve near Lucius Avenue and sheared off a pole. Injured are Mrs. Lois Carpenter, Diane and Mike Carpenter, Cindy Dimmock and Barbara Coriston.
The loss in a daylight break-in at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ciavarella, Liberty, amounts to between $5,000 and $6,000. Residents of the Tibbetts-Wick Road area say there have been eight such burglaries lately.
1943: Sgt. Virgil Summers Jr. of Youngstown has been missing in action in the European area since the raid over Schweinfurt in which 60 Flying Fortresses were lost.
Jams, jellies, preserves and fruit spreads are next on the nation’s food ration list. The butter shortage has sent demand for jam soaring beyond supply prospects.