Today is Wednesday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2018. There are 61 days left in the year. This is

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2018. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween.

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On this date in:

1517: Martin Luther sends his 95 Theses denouncing what he saw as the abuses of the Catholic Church, especially the sale of indulgences, to the Archbishop of Mainz, Germany, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation.

1926: Magician Harry Houdini dies in Detroit of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.

1941: The Navy destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II.

1961: The body of Josef Stalin is removed from Lenin’s Tomb as part of the Soviet Union’s “de-Stalinization” drive.

1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.

1975: The Queen single “Bohemian Rhapsody” is released in the United Kingdom by EMI Records.

1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.

2013: The Federal Aviation Administration issues new guidelines allowing airline passengers to keep their electronic devices turned on throughout the entire flight.

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1993: The Youngstown State University Penguins did what they had to do to defeat the University of Buffalo, 38-12, before 8,456 fans at Stambaugh Stadium, retaining their No. 1 ranking in NCAA Division 1-AA.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announces it will spend $160 million to improve 67 miles of I-80, which an Overdrive magazine poll listed as one of the nation’s worst -maintained highways.

Female guards receive federal court approval to work in the toughest cell blocks in Ohio’s prisons for men.

1978: A consultant tells Warren City Council that $300,000 could be saved annually in the Sanitation Department by rerouting trucks and by instituting curbside rather than backyard collection.

Sharon Mayor Robert T. Price says Kmart Corp. wants more time to study a proposed $8 million downtown development project.

One hundred members of the 120-member Brookfield High marching band are dismissed after they fail to dress and play at a football game with Sharon High. The band members were protesting the dismissal a week earlier of band member Joseph Lazich for missing a band performance without an excuse.

1968: Construction of a $4.8 million terminal at Youngstown Municipal Airport designed to meet 1980 requirements is recommended by Dalton-Dalton Associates, Cleveland architectural and planning firm.

John Sutherland is named manager of the new Lordstown stamping plant of General Motors Co.’s Fisher Body Division.

General Motors Corp.’s Packard Electric Division will build a $2 million, 121,096-square-foot addition to its North Industrial Park facilities in Warren.

1943: Russell Vandenberg, 47, and his 3-year-old son, Russell Jr., are burned to death when a fire of undetermined origin destroys their home on the Ellsworth Road, four miles north of Salem.

C. Wilbur Foster, Indianapolis, grand monarch of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, will come to Youngstown for the fall ceremonial of Aut-Mori Grotto. About 100 candidates will be initiated.

Helen Humphrey, Youngstown College junior, is elected president of the Religion in Life Club. Other officers are Betty Baird, Sally Hull, Sally Dunker and Virginia Blackman.