Years Ago

September 3, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2010. There are 119 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1609: English explorer Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Half Moon enter present-day New York Harbor and begin sailing up the river that now bears his name. (They reach present-day Albany before turning back.)

1783: Representatives of the United States and Britain sign the Treaty of Paris, which officially ends the Revolutionary War.

1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. A German U-boat torpedoes and sinks the British liner SS Athenia some 250 miles off the Irish coast, killing more than 100 out of the 1,400 or so people on board.

1970: Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, 57, dies in Washington, D.C.

1978: Pope John Paul I is formally installed as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. (However, he dies less than a month later.)

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1985: Campbell school teachers vote 80-to-8 to reject a proposed contract and go on strike. The action is in apparent sympathy with striking members of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees in Campbell.

Mahoning County government could face future lawsuits and even the loss of federal dollars unless the Courthouse and two other county buildings are structurally changed to accommodate the handicapped.

1970: A two-alarm fire destroys a McNicholas Storage Co. warehouse at 1028 W. Rayen Ave., with losses estimated at $600,000.

Atty. John M. Newman is appointed by Gov. James A. Rhodes to a nine-year term as trustee on the board of Youngstown State University.

1960: Burglars upstage the grand opening of the new Sav-Mor store at 920 E. Midlothian Blvd., taking nearly $12,000 in jewelry and radios and $5,000 in cash.

A.S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., appeals for a coordinated Youngstown area effort by industrial management, labor, government and others to create a “better business climate” that will bring a revitalization of the district.

A small group of residents led by Carl Kordobaun is circulating petitions against Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s announced plan to equip its Campbell Works open hearths with smoke-increasing oxygen jets.

1935: The doors of 94 city, county and parochial schools open in Mahoning County to 50,500 children on the first day of the 1935-36 school year.

Some 6,000 people from 20 states throng Stambaugh Auditorium throughout the day for the National Gymanfa Ganu, a Welsh songfest.

With a month remaining in the third quarter, Youngstown steel companies say they are anticipating handsome earnings for July, August and September.