Today is Wednesday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2008. There are 119 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2008. 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 Abbey. In 1939, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. In 1951, the television soap opera “Search for Tomorrow” makes its debut on CBS. (It ran on CBS until 1982, when it moved to NBC until its final episode, which aired in December 1986.) In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution. In 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface. In 1978, Pope John Paul I is installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. In 2003, Paul Hill, a former minister who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his bodyguard to save the lives of unborn babies, is executed in Florida by injection, becoming the first person put to death in the United States for anti-abortion violence. In 2007, millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanishes after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada.

September 3, 1983: A Michigan man and his three children narrowly escape death from carbon monoxide poisoning at the Canfield fairgrounds after the fumes from a generator on a nearby trailer enter the trailer of the David Brenner family.

South High Warriors defeat New Castle in a defensive struggle before 5,500 fans in New Castle, 6-2. New Castle’s two point came when punter Earl Sykes intentionally downed the ball in the end zone late in the game.

Ground is broken for the first tenant of Youngstown Commerce Park, the American Sunroof Co., which will make Lordstown-built cars into convertibles.

September 3, 1968: All attendance records are broken at the 122nd Canfield Fair, which closed at midnight on Labor Day after 403,572 people passed through its gates.

Salary increases of $450 a year and a hospitalization plan are approved by Youngstown school teachers, clearing the way for the opening of classes. The starting salary for a teacher will be $6,250.

The Board of Education and Hubbard Federation of Teachers approve a new two-year contract that calls for starting teacher salaries to increase from $5,500 to $6,000

September 3, 1958: Youngstown Sheet Tube Co.’s Bessemer furnace, which lighted the skies over Campbell for more than a half century, produces its last steel, giving way to the open hearth. Over its life, the plant produced more than 18 million tons of steel.

Some 49,000 pupils throughout Mahoning County end their summer vacations and return to class. The only district that hasn’t yet opened is Boardman, which will be on vacation for another week.

Municipal Judge Robert B. Nevin sentences a Myrtle Avenue man who refused to take a drunkometer test to 30 days in jail after convicting him of drunken driving. The driver was examined by Dr. William Maine, police physician, and declared intoxicated.

September 3, 1933: Donna Patrick, 12-day-old Alliance baby, flies from her birthplace in Ohio to Cleveland, where her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Donald Patrick, live. She is believed to be the youngest person ever to make a flight. Her father was the pilot.

An Interstate Commerce Commission examiner gives boosters of a Beaver-Mahoning waterway a powerful argument for their project when he recommends an increase in railroad coal rates from 77 cents to 90 cents a ton.

In the first eight months of 1933, motorists of Youngstown and Mahoning County bought about $8 million worth of automobiles.