Years Ago

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

Today is Sunday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2010. There are 110 days left in the year.

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1910: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, popularly known as the “Symphony of a Thousand,” has its premiere in Munich, Germany, with Mahler conducting.

1943: German paratroopers take Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he is being held by the Italian government.

1953: Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.

1959: The Soviet Union launches its Luna 2 space probe, which makes a crash landing on the moon.

The TV Western series “Bonanza” premieres on NBC.

1960: Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addresses questions about his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Southern Baptist group in Houston, “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.”

1974: Emperor Haile Selassie is deposed by Ethiopia’s military after ruling for 58 years.

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1985: Mahoning County commissioners are meeting with Marilyn Tomasi, director of the Ohio Office of Travel and Tourism, to discuss establishment of a travel and convention bureau in Youngstown.

Atty. John B. Juhasz Jr., Mahoning County administrator, announces his resignation after two years as administrator. He will establish a private law practice in Hubbard.

Lakeview High School in Cortland could become the first area school to offer a choice of rehabilitation instead of expulsion regarding smoking, drug and alcohol offenses under a new policy adopted by the board.

1970: The city of Youngs-town agrees to issue permits to a Cleveland firm for its coin-operated peep show machines and the plaintiff firm, Automated Vending Co., agrees to drop its lawsuit against the city.

Defending Steel Valley champions Austintown Fitch score a 12-6 victory over the Chaney Cowboys in front of 11,000 fans at the Austintown stadium.

1960: Dr. Howard W. Jones, university president, welcomes the largest incoming class in Youngstown University history, during Freshman Day at Wick Park. About 500 freshmen have raised enrollment to an all-time high of 6,185.

State liquor agents and Youngstown morals squad officers raid four spots over the weekend, arresting six men and two women on liquor and gambling violations.

Anthony “Tony” Vivo, a 1940 graduate of Youngstown College, is elected president of the Youngstown University Alumni Association.

1935: Two hundred and fifty people — many of them steel and rail company presidents and executives — honor Benjamin Franklin Fairless, retiring Republic Steel Corp. executive, at the Youngstown Club. Fairless is widely seen as a future president of U.S. Steel Corp.

Four prisoners escape from the 100-year-old Lisbon jail after cutting a 15-inch square hole in the prison wall.

The Republic Steel Corp. announces $1 million in improvements to its tin mill in Warren, including two breakdown mills with continuous furnaces. The work is expected to be completed before the end of the year.