Years Ago

September 1, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2010. There are 121 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1894: The Great Hinckley Fire destroys Hinckley, Minn., and five other communities, and kills more than 400 people.

1923: The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama are devastated by an earthquake that claims some 140,000 lives.

1939: World War II begins as Nazi Germany invades Poland.

1969: A coup in Libya brings Moammar Gadhafi to power.

1983: Two hundred and sixty nine people are killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner enters Soviet airspace.

1985: A U.S.-French expedition locates the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off Newfoundland.

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1985: Saturday attendance at the Canfield Fair is 110,905, an increase over the same day a year earlier, but well short of 1983’s record for a Saturday of 122,795.

Youngstown State University tightens its restrictions on moonlighting teachers, prompting one faculty member to resign a full-time teaching position at the Community College of Beaver County in Pennsylvania.

1970: The Youngstown Board of Education abandons plans to purchase the former “Automatic” Sprinkler plant as the site of a vocational school.

Youngstown City Council appropriates $5,000 to help subsidize the Mahoning Valley Regional Mass Transit Authority’s operation of buses in the city and near suburbs.

1960: Federal marshals find Youngstown racketeer Joe DiCarlo in Miami and serve him a subpoena to testify before the Senate Kefauver committee. The committee wants to ask DiCarlo about Boxer Jake LaMotta’s testimony that he was offered $10,000 to throw a fight against Youngstown fighter Tony Janiro.

Dr. Howard Jones says Youngstown University is requiring entrance tests for the first time of all its incoming freshmen.

1935: Lionel Evans will take an unpaid leave from the city park department while he campaigns in the Youngstown mayoral race.

WPA engineers have submitted plans for $7 million in improvements to Mahoning County Roads.