Today is Thursday, Sept. 30, the 274th day of 2004. There are 92 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Thursday, Sept. 30, the 274th day of 2004. There are 92 days left in the year. On this date in 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders decide to appease Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
In 1777, the Congress of the United States -- forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces -- moves to York, Pa. In 1791, Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna, Austria. In 1846, dentist William Morton uses ether as an anesthetic for the first time on a patient in his Boston office. In 1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th homer of the season to break his own major-league record. In 1946, an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, finds 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. In 1949, the Berlin Airlift comes to an end. In 1954, the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine "Nautilus," is commissioned by the Navy. In 1955, actor James Dean is killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif. In 1962, black student James Meredith succeeds on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi. In 1993, an estimated 10,000 people are killed when an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6.4 strikes southern India.
September 30, 1979: The Lowellville Park Apartments, a new housing complex for the elderly and handicapped, is dedicated. The apartment house at 810 W. Wood St. was built by the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority.
The new mayor of Niles, whether it is Joseph Cicero or John P. Scott, faces beginning his term at the helm of a city staggered by rising expenses and decreasing revenues.
A Columbiana builder plans to construct a housing development on 15 acres of land adjacent to Firestone Park, frustrating efforts by village officials and some citizens to expand the park. Wilmer Witmer bought the land for $64,500 at a auction. Witmer said the land will be divided into half-acre lots.
Joseph R. Gargone, a familiar face behind the stylishly old-fashioned cigar counter at Frankle Bros. on North Phelps Street, is retiring after 54 years of catering to the tastes and fancies of the Mahoning Valley's pipe and cigar smokers.
September 30, 1964: Six high explosive charges shoot earth 75 feet skyward for an audience of 3,000 as ground is officially broken for the new General Motors Chevrolet-Fisher Body assembly plant in Lordstown.
Nine Springfield Township youths are in the Mahoning County Juvenile Research Center awaiting testing by psychologists following their arrest at a beer party at an abandoned farm shed in Cowden Road. A total of 22 youths were arrested and ringleaders of the party are being held at the old detention home.
Gov. James A. Rhodes, Rep. Michael J. Kirwan and other leaders in government education and industry lead the dedication of the Mahoning Valley Vocational School at the Youngstown Air Force Base at Vienna.
September 30, 1954: Atty. Gen Herbert Brownell Jr. announces that the Department of Justice has disapproved a merger between the Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.
Youngstown Police Chief Paul Cress removes 14 of 15 members from the police vice squad. The shakeup is followed by a blast from Detective Sam Schiavi, deposed secretary of the squad, who says politics is involved.
A 30-year-old Berwyn, Ill., skywriter, returning home after a flying campaign in New Jersey, is killed when his single-engine plane runs out of fuel and crashes into a field three miles south of New Wilmington, Pa.
September 30, 1929: R. R. Richards of Detroit, founder of the American Auction Bridge League, is coming to Youngstown to play in the Mahoning Valley championship bridge tournament at the Hotel Ohio.
Announcement that there would be a checker tournament Sunday at the Youngstown YMCA was erroneous. Only religious activities are permitted at the Y on Sundays. After years of service, the billiard and pool tables have also been retired from the Y because, says Paul B. Davies, associate general secretary, the games have lost their charm for Y members.
A special posse headed by Salem Fire Chief V.L. Malloy arrests four persons at Teegarden, seven miles south of town. Two shotguns, a rifle, 800 rounds of ammunition, a stolen car and a cache of merchandise that is believed to have been stolen, are found in the home of a Teegarden couple.