Today is Sunday, Sept. 26, the 270th day of 2004. There are 96 days left in the year. On this date in 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M.

Today is Sunday, Sept. 26, the 270th day of 2004. There are 96 days left in the year. On this date in 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon takes place in Chicago.
In 1777, British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution. In 1789, Thomas Jefferson is appointed America's first secretary of state. In 1898, American composer George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1914, the Federal Trade Commission is established. In 1950, United Nations troops recapture the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans. In 1952, philosopher George Santayana dies in Rome at age 88. In 1955, following word that President Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange sees its worst price decline since 1929. In 1957, the musical "West Side Story" opens on Broadway. In 1986, William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court as its 103rd member. In 1991, four men and four women begin a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Ariz., called "Biosphere Two." They emerge from the Biosphere on this date in 1993.
September 26, 1979: The U.S. Economic Development Administration is poised to award a $111 million loan guarantee to the Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp., even though another federal agency charges that J & amp;L has defied government orders to clean up pollution at its five major plants.
Members of United Auto Workers Local 1112 at the General Motors Assembly Division at Lordstown overwhelmingly reject the union's proposed contract. The union represents about 8,500 employees at the plant.
An emotional throng of union members, including a large Youngstown area delegation, demonstrates at the Statehouse in Columbus in support of legislation that would require employers to give at least two years' notice before closing or relocating any commercial, agricultural or industrial facility.
The director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency requests $1 million from the State Board of Control to clean up the Deerfield chemical waste dump, which poses a threat to the backup water supply of 313,000 Mahoning Valley residents.
September 26, 1964: An air of uncertainty prevails in the steelmaking world because of the General Motors strike, but production in the Youngstown district is expected to continue at its peak level for at least a week.
Fullback Paul Richardson plunges over the goal line for a pair of touchdowns to provide Youngstown University with most of its offense in a 21-7 victory over Eastern Kentucky before 5,000 fans at Rayen Stadium.
A request for 350 acres of the 550-acre Lordstown Military Reservation is made to the federal government by a committee seeking to establish a vocational education school for 11th and 12th grade Trumbull County students.
September 26, 1954: Thousands of persons attend the four-day Mineral Ridge Firemen's Festival, which featured 25 concessions and half-a-dozen rides on the grounds of Mineral Ridge High School. Proceeds will help equip the fire department.
Howard C. Goodrich of McDonald, superintendent of power facilities for the U.S. Steel Corp.'s Ohio Works, wins both the grand prize and the award for the most artistic exhibit at the eighth annual Mahoning Valley Stamp Club show at Butler Art Institute. His entry was a collection of postal savings stamps.
Mahoning County's mobile X-ray unit provided free chest pictures for 2,677 persons at the recent Canfield Fair, Dr. Edwin R. Brody, president of the Mahoning County Tuberculosis and Health Association, reports.
Harold Ging, 45, of Youngstown is killed and two others are badly injured when their private plane crashes and burns on a flight from Watson Field at McKelvey Lake. The pilot, Air Force Lt. James R. Burch, 21, was demonstrating his plane, a pre-World War II model, to Ging and his stepson, Edward Moulin, 33, who were prospective buyers.
The daily cost for each patient at the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium average $12.89 for the first eight months of 1954, a financial report shows. Total operating costs for the period were $465,000.
September 26, 1929:A program of improvements that will ultimately result in the elimination of all the Youngstown & amp; Suburban grade crossings in the city and convert the line into a rapid transit system, is disclosed to Youngstown City Council by H.J. German, president of the Pittsburgh, Lisbon & amp; Western and Y & amp;S companies.
Trumbull County Commissioners John W. VanWye and H.C. Chinnock ask Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernon to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the commissioners any benefit Trumbull County would derive from the proposed paving of a new roadway from the new Youngstown City Hospital to Belmont Avenue. The road, known as Gypsy Lane, is the dividing line between Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
In line with a ruling by Ohio Attorney General Bettmas that a school teacher is ineligible for membership on a municipal or village council, D.H. Rist, East Liverpool school principal, withdraws as a Democratic candidate for councilman-a-large.
A 32-year-old Woodland Ave. man is fined $100 and sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty before Judge Frank L. Baldwin to providing liquor to juveniles. The boys said they paid Rocco Franze $2 for a gallon of moonshine.
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