Years Ago

September 7, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2010. There are 115 days left in the year.

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1892: James J. Corbett knocks out John L. Sullivan to win the world heavyweight crown in New Orleans, fighting by Marquess of Queensberry rules.

1927: American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeds in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an “image dissector.”

1940: Nazi Germany begins its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London.

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1985: Pilot William Roberts, and his wife, Priscilla, die when their Piper Cherokee crashes at the Ravenna Arsenal, It was their first long-distance flight in the plane, from their Rochester, Minn., home to Boston and back.

Youngstown swears in 12 new patrolmen, the first hires in the police department since 1982. Police Chief Randall Wellington says the group is representative of the community, with veterans, former steel workers and of a racial and ethnic mix.

1970: A long line of children deliver collection canisters containing $10,000, about a sixth of the total local contributions, to WYTV during the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy.

The 124th annual Canfield Fair breaks attendance records with 440,290 people clocked through the gates during its five-day run.

1960: Safecrackers break into the Howard Johnson restaurant at 6123 Market St. and escape with weekend receipts totaling $4,000.

The Youngstown Board of Education approves an eight room addition to Paul C. Bunn School to provide for students from the expanding southeastern section of the city.

1935: Sixteen candidates file for mayor of Youngstown, the largest slate in city history.

Four incumbent Youngstown Board of Education members are being challenged by three Communist candidates and three believed to have been put in the race by Democrats.