YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 28

Today is Sunday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2018. There are 64 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1726: The original edition of “Gulliver’s Travels,” a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift, is first published in London.

1858: Rowland Hussey Macy opens his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.

1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

1922: Fascism comes to Italy as Benito Mussolini takes control of the government.

1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

1940: Italy invades Greece during World War II.

1958: The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is elected Pope; he takes the name John XXIII.

The Samuel Beckett play “Krapp’s Last Tape” premieres in London.

1962: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informs the United States that he has ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. secretly agrees to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey.

1965: Pope Paul VI issues a Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions which, among other things, absolves Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

1976: Former President Richard Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman enters a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions (he was released in April 1978).

1980: President Jimmy Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan face off in a nationally broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland.

2002: American diplomat Laurence Foley is assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan, in the first such attack on a U.S. diplomat in decades.

2008: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is sentenced to four months in jail for his part in a sex-and-text scandal. (Kilpatrick ended up serving 99 days.)

2008: Penn State University says it will pay $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Warren police say two Youngstown men heard about a marijuana raid in a wooded area behind Citadel Drive and came looking for scraps missed by police. They found some, but then police arrived, confiscated two food storage bags the men had filled and placed them under arrest.

After two weeks of investigation, special prosecutor Robert Horowitz says there is no evidence that any Columbiana county officials other than Treasurer Aldel Strabala knew that $10 million in county funds were missing.

The Ohio Supreme Court unanimouslyupholds the death sentence of Rosalie Grant, convicted in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court of murder in the deaths of her sons, Joseph, 2, and Donovan, 1, in a fire at her home April 1, 1983.

1978: Robert DeCerbo, 35, barely escapes death when a bomb demolishes his car, which was parked in the driveway of his home on New Buffalo Road, North Lima.

Ronald Reagan, a popular Republican known for preaching “the gospel of conservative Republicanism,” stumps for Trumbull County Commissioner Lyle Williams, who is challenging Democratic congressman Charles J. Carney. Reagan drew a large crowd to the Avalon Inn in Howland Township.

Centenary United Methodist Church, which is marking its 60 th anniversary, introduces its new pastor, the Rev. Shepherd G. Harkness

1968: A Salem couple, John and Mary Rottenborn, 60 and 54, are killed when a stolen car driven by a 16-year-old fugitive from the Juvenile Diagnostic Center in Columbus collided at high speed with their car. The youth also died.

Former Warren Harding standout Paul Warfield makes a spectacular catch in the fourth quarter of the Cleveland Browns 30-7 victory over Atlanta, giving Warfield six straight games in which he caught a touchdown pass, one short of Gary Collins’ team record.

Women win both major events at the annual Eastern Ohio Bridge Tournament, which attracted 200 players to the Voyager Motel in downtown Youngstown. First place in the masters pair game was won by Kathryn Benson of West Virginia and Mrs. Robert Alfred of Youngstown.,

1943: The Diocese of Youngstown purchases the Rayen-Wood building on Wood Street, which includes the Rayen-Wood Auditorium. The Catholic Service League and Catholic Exponent will be moved into the building.

William J. “Jack” Williams, widely known Youngstown public figure and for several years the U.S. bankruptcy referee, dies suddenly in his office. He was 74.

The Dallmer Co. headed by Atty. Gerald Hammond, which was recently awarded lease rights to the Palace Theater, will take over the place under a 10-year lease. Ed Prinsen, former manager, will be in charge.