Today is Wednesday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2004. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2004. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 12:30 p.m. On this date in 1776, Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
In 1789, Congress authorizes the office of Postmaster-General. In 1792, the French Republic is proclaimed. In 1927, Gene Tunney successfully defends his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight in Chicago. In 1949, the Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb. In 1950, Omar N. Bradley is promoted to the rank of five-star general, joining an elite group that includes Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall and Henry H. "Hap" Arnold. In 1964, the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances. In 1964, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premieres on NBC television. In 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempts to shoot President Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but misses. In 1980, the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupts into full-scale war. In 1989, songwriter Irving Berlin dies in New York City at age 101.
September 22, 1979: Nathaniel R. Jones, a Youngstown native and NAACP attorney, wins a warm reception from the Senate Judiciary Committee during hearings on his appointment to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
After nearly two years in a Thai refugee camp and a 24-hour trip from Bangkok, Thailand, to Pittsburgh, seven members of the Hoi Na family, Cambodian refugees, find a home in Canfield. The family is being sponsored by the Canfield United Methodist Church.
A United Auto Workers vice president says the union's proposed contract with General Motors will create as many as 11,000 jobs nationwide.
September 22, 1964: Mrs. Margaret Helsel, 51, of Girard is killed and her husband, Ralph, 55, injured when their car strikes a culvert near Wells, Nev.
The president of the United Steelworkers Union, David J. McDonald, tells the union's convention in Atlantic City that the goal of the union in negotiations will be "total job security" for its membership.
September 22, 1954: County Prosecutor William A. Ambrose and Sheriff Paul J. Langley tell 25 representatives of church and civic groups meeting at the South Side branch of the Union National Bank that the walls of the Mahoning County Jail will collapse if conditions are not remedied soon.
Standard & amp; Poor's Facts & amp; Forecasts, a pamphlet that attempts to predict financial trends, suggests that a merger between Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp. won't come to pass.
Youngstown's First Ward Councilman Michael J. McCullion says enforcement of the city's curfew, which forbids children under 16 years old from being out after 10 p.m. unless accompanied by an adult, would reduce rowdyism. Stronger enforcement, McCullion says, is preferable to a proposed abolition of night football games.
September 22, 1929: When overtaken by darkness while en route from Washington to Cleveland, Sam B. Lambert, president of the Lambert Aircraft Engine Co. of Moline , Ill., lands his tiny Monocoupe seaplane on Lake Glacier in Mill Creek Park.
A report by the American Institute of Steel Construction says skyscrapers with as many as 150 floors, which would make them about 2,000 feet tall, can be built with safety, but economics will probably limit buildings to heights of about 75 stories.
Dr. Ralph A. Waldron, professor of biology at Slippery Rock Normal College, will serve on the faculty of the YMCA Evening College of Liberal Arts in Youngstown.