Today is Monday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2008. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn

Today is Monday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2008. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 11:44 a.m. Eastern time. On this date in 1776, Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.

In 1789, Congress authorizes the office of Postmaster-General. In 1862, President Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. In 1927, Gene Tunney successfully defendd his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous “long-count” fight in Chicago. In 1938, the musical comedy revue “Hellzapoppin’,” starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, begins a three-year run on Broadway. In 1958, President Eisenhower’s assistant, Sherman Adams, resigns amid charges of improperly using his influence to help a businessman. In 1958, the television show “Peter Gunn,” starring Craig Stevens, premieres on NBC. In 1964, the musical “Fiddler on the Roof” opens on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances. In 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempts to shoot President Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but misses. In 1980, the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupts into full-scale war. In 1988, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney apologizes for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians, and promises compensation.

September 22, 1983: The Vukovich administration recommends that the city hire a special prosecutor to investigate the city’s housing rehabilitation program, but the recommendation is pulled from the agenda after councilman Herman “Pete” Starks questions why city lawyers couldn’t handle the case.

Home Savings & Loan Co. of Youngstown files for foreclosure on its $10.5 million loan to the now defunct Commuter Aircraft Corp.

U.S. Steel Corp. is asking for a tax refund from Conneaut that could amount to $1 million for what the company says was an overpayment on personal property taxes from 1979 to 1982.

September 22, 1968: With three days remaining to register for the 1968 presidential election, total registration is expected to be about 148,000, below the 1960 registration of 151,691 and 1964 registration of 150,072.

Delegates to the Democratic State Convention select Youngstown developer William Cafaro as the party’s elector for the 19th Congressional District.

D.L. “Larry” Eisenbraun a naval corpsman, is killed in South Vietnam, the 61st Mahoning County man to lose his life in the Vietnam War.

September 22, 1958: Youngstown’s safety committee urges parents to dress school children in white or other light colored clothes during October, when the extension of Daylight Saving Time will have students going to school in the semidarkness.

The Sebring Methodist Church has introduced a coffee break — coffee and cookies served in the assembly room after Sunday morning service — and attendance is up as new and old members get to know each other.

American League President Will Harridge fines Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox $50 for throwing his bat into the Boston stands, hitting a 60-year-old woman fan and causing a contusion over her eye. Williams was upset by a called third strike.

September 22, 1933: James A. Campbell, chairman emeritus of the board of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is remembered as a man who gained renown as a boxer and baseball player before leaving Hiram College to begin his business career as a hardware salesman, then became one of the greatest figures in the steel industry in the United States.

Dr. C.H. Beight, city health commissioner, announces the unqualified removal of the quarantine against infantile paralysis. Saturday football games and Sunday schools will be permitted, and public schools will open on Monday.

A debate on the city charter between Mayor Mark E. Moore and Attorney Ralph Miller will be hosted by the Welsh Civic Club at the YMCA.