Friday, October 26, 2018
Today is Friday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2018. There are 66 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1825: The Erie Canal opens in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
1774: The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
1881: The “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” takes place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confront Ike Clanton’s gang. Three members of Clanton’s gang were killed; Earp’s brothers and Holliday were wounded.
1949: President Harry S Truman signs a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1972: National-security adviser Henry Kissinger declares, “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam.
1984: “Baby Fae,” a newborn with a severe heart defect, is given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. (Baby Fae lived 21 days with the animal heart.)
2001: President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
2017: President Donald Trump declares the nationwide opiate-addiction epidemic a national emergency.
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1993: General Motors strikes a precedent-setting agreement to allow an outside company, Lear Siegler, to operate a seat-making plant at its sprawling Lordstown assembly plant.
Kimberly A. Hight, a senior in business management, is Youngstown State University homecoming queen, and Jeffrey Wilkins, place kicker for the Penguins, is named king.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Vinny Testaverde suffers a season-ending arm and shoulder injury in the Browns 28-23 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
1978: StanJim Homes announces plans to build 315 homes in an $18 million development at McKay’s Corners.
A Salem couple, Robert E. Roberts, 49, and Marilyn Roberts, 46, escape serious injury when their Cessna 172 made a crash landing on state Route 45 north of Salem after it overshot the runway at the Salem Air Park.
An 8-year-old Bristolville girl, Michelle Switzer, is killed when she steps into the path of a motorcycle driven by a 12-year-old boy in Cory Hunt Road.
1968: Margie Sfara, 20, of Struthers, a junior, is crowned homecoming queen of Youngstown State University during half-time of a football game between YSU and South Dakota State.
John A. Palermo, 30, a Youngstown patrolman, is unanimously elected by the Mahoning County Democratic Central Committee to succeed his late father as county commissioner.
Advertisement: “A taste of the big country” at the Red Barn. Family bucket of chicken, 15 pieces, $3.79; two pieces of chicken and golden fries, 69 cents.
1943: Mrs. John Burns, 135 Avondale Ave., reports a thief cleaned out her fruit cellar, taking everything she canned from her victory garden: 25 cans of vegetables, 30 cans of preserves and 24 quarts of pickles, tomatoes and string beans.
Prescriptions for meat are being abused by a number of residents to get around ration regulations, which limit people to 16 red points a week. Some busy doctors have issued blank prescriptions for patients to fill in.
Two new infantile paralysis cases are reported by city health department bringing the total to 13. One victim is John Beacom, 21/2, and the other is Robert Fedorchak, 17 months.