Today is Sunday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2005. There are 118 days left in the year. On this date in 1781, Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers.

Today is Sunday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2005. There are 118 days left in the year. On this date in 1781, Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers.
In 1888, George Eastman receives a patent for his roll-film camera, and registers his trademark: Kodak. In 1893, English author Beatrix Potter first tells the story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a "picture letter" to Noel Moore, the son of Potter's former governess. In 1917, the American expeditionary force in France suffers its first fatalities in World War I. In 1944, during World War II, British troops enter Antwerp, Belgium. In 1951, President Truman addresses the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. In 1957, Ford Motor Co. begins selling its ill-fated Edsel. In 1967, Michigan Gov. George Romney tells a TV interview he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam -- a comment that damages Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination. In 1971, an Alaska Airlines jet crashes near Juneau, killing 111 people. In 1984, Canada's Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, win a landslide victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N. Turner.
September 4, 1980: A plan by Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich and City Council to place most city employees on a four-day work week to prevent a $400,000 general fund deficit is being challenged by city employee unions in court.
Brookfield Township trustees name John O'Brien to fill the unexpired term of Trustee Wayne Baxter, shunning the choice of a selection committee, which recommended a retired auto dealer for the post.
Layoff benefits for steel workers caught in the 1979-1980 plant shutdowns of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. and U.S. Steel Corp. are being cut because of diminishing amounts of money in the funds created to pay those benefits.
Commuter Aircraft Corp. and the city of Youngstown are on the verge of consummating the sale of 94.6 acres of city land to CAC as a result of a major concession by CAC to pay $5,418 an acre, the average of three appraisals.
September 4, 1965: Carole Haus of Calla Road reigns as the Apple Queen at the Canfield Fair.
Another record-shattering automobile sales year is forecast for 1966 by Paul F. Lorenz, vice president of Ford Motor Co., speaking at a Cleveland press showing of his company's new models.
Austintown police and Mahoning County sheriff's deputies team up to capture a burglary suspect inside the Holly Beverage Co. at 116 N. Meridian Road.
Gov. James A. Rhodes calls for action to curb "one of Ohio's biggest social problems, teenage drinking."
September 4, 1955: Five Youngstown churches are organizing a trip to Uniontown, Pa., where the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen , U.S. director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, will celebrate the first Catholic Mass in English on Sept. 5.
Congressman Michael J. Kirwan returns from a 4,500-mile, month-long auto tour on which he gathered first-hand information of dozens of federal projects for which he has appropriation responsibilities.
Youngstown public schools are ready to open with 26,000 pupils returning to class. More than 10,000 parochial school students are registered and approximately 16,500 pupils will be attending rural Mahoning County schools.
A paving machine spews two tons of concrete into a 61-foot strip near Strongsville, finishing the paving of the Ohio turnpike. Considerable site work remains to be done before the pike is officially opened Oct. 1.
September 4, 1930: A mysterious explosion and fire destroy a vacant house at 511 W. Chalmers Ave., causing an estimated $2,500 in damage.
S. Livingston Mather testifies that he voted his personal holdings of between 5,000 and 6,000 shares of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. stock in favor of a merger with Bethlehem Steel Corp. without regard to his personal feelings because his father, Samuel Mather, favored the deal.
Youngstown and Canton are tied among Ohio's eight cities that have populations of 100,000 or more for the city in the state with the second lowest percentage of unemployment. Both cities had an unemployment rate of 2.7; Columbus, with 2.5 percent unemployed, was lowest.