Today is Sunday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2003. There are 94 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2003. There are 94 days left in the year. On this date in 1939, during World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a plan to partition Poland.
In 1066, William the Conqueror invades England to claim the English throne. In 1542, Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives at present-day San Diego. In 1781, American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, begin their siege of Yorktown Heights, Va. In 1787, Congress votes to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval. In 1850, flogging is abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy. In 1924, two U.S. Army planes land in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days. In 1974, first lady Betty Ford undergoes a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast. In 1989, deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos dies in exile in Hawaii at age 72. In 1991, jazz great Miles Davis dies in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 65. In 2000, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies in Montreal at age 80.
September 28, 1978: The Carter administration commits $100 million in federal loan guarantees to the revitalization of the Mahoning Valley's economy, but did not specify which of several proposals might get government backing.
Dr. John N. McCann, 74, former chairman of the board of trustees of Youngstown State University and well-known family practitioner, dies of injuries sustained in a two-car accident at McCollum Road and Belle Vista Avenue.
Milk in the Mahoning Valley will increase 4 cents a gallon in response to the higher prices dairy farmers are charging when they sell their milk to dairy plants.
September 28, 1963: The Erie-Lackawanna Railroad is asking to drop four of its six weekday passenger trains between Cleveland and Youngstown. The request will be considered by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Mrs. Margaret Linton, 44, of Glenwood Ave., wife of funeral director Amos Linton, is knocked down by a hit-and-run driver as she stood beside her car near McGuffey Center on Jacobs Road.
Records of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. will be subpoenaed to determine the source of a call to Cincinnati in which a caller tried to inform a football coach of the Niles team plays. Bron Bracevich, coach of the Cincinnati Roger Bacon team, informed Niles coach Tony Mason of the call and Mason called Niles police.
September 28, 1953: The American and National leagues jockey for position in the race to bring major league baseball to the West Coast. It is reported that the National League will expand to 10 teams, adding San Francisco and Los Angeles teams.
More than 1,000 employees of the Republic Rubber Division of Lee Tire & amp; Rubber Co. in Youngstown receive pay raises of 5 cents an hour and other benefits in an agreement negotiated by Local 102, United Rubber Workers.
Schools and public buildings will be closed for the day as the city prepares for its giant Sesquicentennial parade.
September 28, 1928: Mahoning County residents donate $632 to the Red Cross fund to assist victims of the hurricane that devastated the West Indies.
Youngstown's third annual Radio and Electrical Show opens to the largest first-night crowd ever. Televox, the mechanical man, was the biggest attraction. He obeyed telephone commands with amazing efficiency, turning on a sweeper, a washing machine, a floor lamp and a fan.
"No further city nor county bond issues, except school issues, will be supported by members of the Building Trades Council until such time as a fair and an American living scale of wages is paid here on public works," according to a pledge approved by union tradesmen.