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Local history
50 years ago: October 15, 1976
The Blair County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Rev. Francis L. Gorney chairman, honored volunteers Dr. Charles S. Hendricks and Mrs. Margaret Burley as its Man and Woman of the Year and presented them with silver plates.
25 years ago: October 15, 2001
Altoona City Council was trying to decide what projects to undertake when they received $356,000 in transportation enhancement money from the federal government through the Metropolitan Planning Organization.
10 years ago: October 15, 2016
Hollidaysburg Borough Council passed an ordinance that said any property sold for 15 or more percent of its newly assessed value would have that amount subject to taxes and reassessed at the sale price.
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle
World history
Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2026. There are 77 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On Oct. 15, 2017, actor and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that women who had been sexually harassed or assaulted should write "Me too" as a status. Within hours, tens of thousands had taken up the #MeToo hashtag (using a phrase that had been introduced a decade earlier by social activist Tarana Burke).
On this date:
– In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed French emperor, arrived on the British-ruled South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he spent the last 5 1/2 years of his life in exile.
– In 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
– In 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall near the North Carolina-South Carolina coastal border as a Category 4 storm; Hazel was blamed for about 1,000 deaths in the Caribbean, 95 in the U.S. and 81 in Canada.
– In 1976, the first debate of its kind took place between vice-presidential nominees. Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.
- The Associated Press