Today is Saturday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2005. There are 119 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2005. There are 119 days left in the year. On this date in 1783, the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ends the Revolutionary War.
In 1189, England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) is crowned in Westminster. In 1939, Britain and France declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. In 1943, the British Eighth Army invades Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signs a secret armistice with the allies. In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
September 3, 1980: Warren City Auditor Hannah Cickelli is projecting a $500,000 deficit in the city's general fund, despite an increase in income tax collections and the layoff of city employees.
Irate parents, children and cars block exits of the Western Reserve Transit Authority garage on Mahoning Avenue, protesting a cutback in services to Youngstown children who use WRTA buses to get to school.
Ronald Reagan, buffeted by outraged southern governors, says he meant no harm by his wrongful claim that President Carter visited the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. The presidential candidate apologizes to the South, but says he won't apologize to Carter, who he accused of using the issue for political gain.
September 3, 1965: Warren police and FBI agents are searching for two men who held up the West Side Branch of the Union Savings & amp; Trust Co., escaping with $68,621. The bank had an especially large amount of cash on hand in preparation for payday at many plants and businesses.
A new first-day attendance record of 42,380 is set at the Canfield Fair, an increase of 4,261 over the record set a year earlier.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Lettau, acting vicar general of the Diocese of Youngstown, presents diplomas to 42 students of the St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing.
September 3, 1955: A 12-year-old bad check artist from Jackson Township adds insult to injury when he admits stealing the pen to fill out the checks from the same store where he cashed two of them.
The 22-year-old daughter of the vice president of a multimillion dollar food chain in Philadelphia dies in the North Philadelphia apartment of a bartender and his wife as the result of an unsuccessful attempt at an abortion.
Columbiana County Sheriff Howard Clark says no more county prisoners will be housed in the Salem Jail after Mayor Dean B. Cranmer released one prisoner after he paid his fine and reportedly used another to do work around the mayor's home.
September 3, 1930: With eight cities in the 100,000-population class, Ohio is second only to Massachusetts in the nation. The Bay State has nine large cities. Youngstown, with a population of 170,000, is seventh among Ohio cities.
A lone bandit holds up Mike Sules, manager of the Western Lunch, 130 W. Front St., at the point of a gun a block from the police station. The robber escapes with $3.75.