Turbojet Green Monster

October 7, 1964 – Akronite and Springfield Township resident Art Arfons, the “junkyard genius of the jetset” drives his turbojet Green Monster to a world land-speed record of 434.356 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The Monster was, essentially, a frame, four tires, a chassis, a seat and a jet engine.
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Contemporary Arts Center

October 6, 1990 - In a resounding blow to a conservative sheriff trying to enforce his standards on a community, a Cincinnati jury acquitted the Contemporary Arts Center art museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, of obscenity charges in connection with an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe photos. The courtroom erupted in shouts and cheers when the verdict was announced.
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Maya Lin

October 5, 1959 – Maya Lin, born in Athens, wins a commission to create a Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which is unveiled November 13, 1982 and bears the names of fallen soldiers from the conflict. The memorial becomes an instant Mecca for Americans who fought in the conflict.
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R.W. Apple, Jr.

October 4, 2006 – Hudson native, world traveler and New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, Jr., 71, dies from complications of thoracic cancer. He was a lifelong newshound and gourmand.
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Chris Campbell's Northern Pike

October 3, 1988 – Chris Campbell of Dayton fishes Lyre Lake and lands a freshwater shark: a 22.38 pound, 43-inch long Northern Pike. It's a state record.
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Elizabeth Degenhart Glass Art Day

October 2, 1975 – Ohio declares Elizabeth Degenhart Glass Art Day to honor the 4,000 glass paperweights at the Degenhart Paperweight Museum - behind a gas station in Cambridge at 65323 Highland Hills Rd. Check out the gear-shift-knob paperweight turned down by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's assistant secretary in 1933, and don’t miss three glass gravesite markers – a trend that never took off but remains a good idea.
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World Series fix

October 1, 1919 – Players on the Chicago White Sox fix the World Series with the Cincinnati Reds by conspiring to lose. George M. Cohan, the Broadway showman, was in the stands at Redland Field today. He lost a bundle on the White Sox, too.
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