Years Ago

September 4, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2010. There are 118 days left in the year.

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1781: Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Gov. Felipe de Neve.

1886: A group of Apache Indians led by Geronimo surrenders to Gen. Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.

1888: George Eastman receives a patent for his roll-film box camera, and registers his trademark: “Kodak.”

1893: English author Beatrix Potter first tells the story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a “picture letter” to Noel Moore, the son of Potter’s former governess.

1917: The American Expeditionary Forces in France suffer their first fatalities during World War I when a German plane attacks a British-run base hospital.

1948: Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates after nearly six decades of rule for health reasons.

1951: President Harry S. Truman addresses the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast.

1969: The Food and Drug Administration issues a report calling birth control pills “safe,” despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills.

1971: An Alaska Airlines jet crashes near Juneau, killing all 111 people on board.

1984: Canada’s Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, wins a landslide victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N. Turner and the New Democrats headed by Ed Broadbent.

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1985: Youngstown city schools open the new school year with 15,500 students, a reduction of about 200 from a year earlier.

The Ohio Personnel Board of Review rules that Trumbull County cannot eliminate the jobs of Wilbur Cartwright, director of block grants, and Carl Bispeck, risk manager.

Craig Beach Village Council denies permission for General Motors to move well-drilling equipment through the village to a site in Lake Milton where the company plans to drill three natural gas wells on land owned by the city of Youngstown.

1970: Trumbull County officials place a 1-mill levy for the Children Service Board on the ballot that would provide $840,000 annually.

Two unions representing employee of the Youngstown Transit Co. go to court to block the company from collecting rent payments to the Mahoning Valley Regional Mass Transit Authority until back pay and fringe benefits are paid to employees.

First day attendance at the Canfield Fair is down to 82,320, a decrease of about 4,000 from a year before because of sporadic showers.

A proposed revision of Youngstown’s charter will not be on the ballot before the May 4, 1971, primary.

1960: For the first time in 30 years, Amish horses pulling high-wheeled buggies race at the Geauga County Fair at Burton. Six young men race in three heats around the half-mile track.

Isaly Dairy stores increase the price of milk from 68 cents a gallon to 70 cents, a week after cutting the price from 72 cents to 68 cents.

The first new Masonic Lodge in Mahoning County in 35 years is constituted and will be known as the Meander Lodge at North Jackson. Another new lodge is being organized in the Poland area.

Only a few tickets are left for the coming Junior League lecture series at the Palace theater, which will feature Bennett Cerf, Hal Holbrook and Stewart Alsop, among others.

1935: H.R. Packard, secretary of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, urges the state to provide aid in completing the grade crossing elimination and Spring Common, Market Street and Watt Street improvements.

Campbell City Council fails to approve an ordinance that would have the city pay $49,000 and the federal government $41,000 for the construction of two swimming pools.