Today is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 271st day of 2008. There are 95 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 271st day of 2008. There are 95 days left in the year. On this date in 1964, the government publicly releases the report of the Warren Commission, which found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy.

In 1779, John Adams is named to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain. In 1825, the first locomotive to haul a passenger train is operated by George Stephenson in England. In 1854, the first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurs when the steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people aboard. In 1928, the United States says it is recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government. In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrenders after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. In 1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform together for the last time, at the Central Theater in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller’s entry into the Army. In 1954, “Tonight!” hosted by Steve Allen, makes its network debut on NBC-TV. In 1979, Congress gives final approval to forming the Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet agency in U.S. history. In 1988, three days after placing first in the men’s 100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson leaves for home in disgrace, stripped of his gold medal by officials who said Johnson had used anabolic steroids. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush announces in a nationally broadcast address that he is eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and calls on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.

September 27, 1983: Road patrols will be cancelled and other functions of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department will be curtailed after Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. announces the layoff of 24 deputies.

A Milwaukee teenager who tapped into an unclassified computer at Los Alamos nuclear lab testifies before Congress about how it can protect computers from trespassers like himself.

The Lundberg survey reports that motorists who use full-service gasoline pumps are paying a mark-up of about 21 cents per gallon, nearly four times what motorist who buy self-service gasoline pay.

September 27, 1968: The largest rolling mill the world has ever seen will be built soon at United Engineering and Foundry Co.’s main plant in Youngstown at a cost of more than $100 million. It will be installed at the Aluminum Co. of America’s Davenport, Iowa, plant.

Dr. John Pattison, professor of environmental health engineering at the University of Cincinnati, tells the 25th meeting of the East Central Air Pollution Control Association meeting at the Voyager Inn in Youngstown that compulsory inspection of motor vehicles is an inexpensive way of combating air pollution.

Hubert H. Humphrey accuses Richard M. Nixon of “lack of respect for the intelligence of the American public” by balking at the idea of a round of nontelevised debates.

September 27, 1958: Sheriff Paul J. Langley and Chief Deputy Frank Reese find the stolen car used in an attempted robbery of the Builders & Investors Mortgage Loan Co. and arrest three suspects.

The Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium will be recommended for use as a regional control and treatment center under a long-range plan to consolidate operations throughout the state.

September 27, 1933: Most officials of the Mahoning Valley communities favor the recommendations issued by the state department of health suggesting a new sanitary district, but among those dissenting is Youngstown Mayor Mark Moore who says the city should build its own sewage system.

Joe Renaldo, 75, who lived in a cabin in Mill Creek Park near Lake Glacier for 30 years, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital.