Today is Friday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2005. There are 92 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2005. There are 92 days left in the year. On this date in 1955, actor James Dean, 24, is killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.
In 1777, the Congress of the United States -- forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces -- moves to York, Pa. In 1846, dentist William Morton uses ether as an anesthetic for the first time on a patient in his Boston office. In 1905, British director Michael Powell ("The Red Shoes") is born in Bekesbourne, Kent, England. In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders decide to appease Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. 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 1962, black student James Meredith succeeds on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
September 30, 1980: Officials break ground to reclaim about 70 acres of abandoned strip mine land in Goshen Township that has been leaking pyrite into the Meander Reservoir for almost 20 years. The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District has spent $1 million to treat the chemical infiltration.
Developer Edward J. DeBartolo of Youngstown, owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, will take over operation of Pittsburgh's Civic Arena and adjacent properties.
State Sen. Harry Meshel announces that CASTLO will receive a $3.1 million grant from EDA to renovate buildings and grounds at the CASTLO Industrial Park in Struthers.
September 30, 1965: General Motors announces that its Lordstown plant will operate on a two-shift basis, allowing it to produce 1,000 cars a day when it reaches full schedules in May.
About 60 farmers and their wives are arrested in Pittsburgh for picketing an Isaly Dairy Co. plant to protest the prices they are paying for milk.
President Johnson announces the first tests in new high-speed rail transportation will begin in about a year, leading to proposed 125 mph service between Boston and New York and New York and Washington, D.C.
September 30, 1955: The deaths of four Salem teen-agers from injuries of a tragic accident on Route 18 bring the traffic death toll in Mahoning County to 47, compared to 28 at the same time in 1954.
Thomas Morris opens Volkswagen Youngstown, occupying garage and sales space at 5095 Market St., the city's first exclusive Volkswagen agency.
Clarence "Clate" McMullen, superintendent of the County Home, drops his $100,000 libel suit against Republican County Commissioner Edward J. Gilronan.
September 30, 1930: Margaret and Ethel Anderson, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Anderson, Central Avenue, Youngstown, will sing with the U.S. Navy Band in concerts at Sewickley., Pa., and Youngstown, the first soloists other than enlisted men to appear with the band.
The 1931 budget for all county institutions and offices will have to be slashed if the taxpayers of Mahoning County are to escape an increase in tax rates, says county Auditor John J. Arnold.
In response to protests from all parts of the state, the Ohio Board of Censors rescinds its ban on showing the motion picture "The Big House," which depicts life behind prison walls. P.J. Woods, business managers of the Association of Motion Picture Theater Owners, described the ban as an "insult to the intelligence of the people."