Years Ago

September 19, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2010. There are 103 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date:

1783: Jacques Etienne Montgolfier launches a duck, a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air balloon at Versailles in France.

1796: President George Washington’s farewell address is published.

1881: The 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, dies 2 1/2 months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur becomes president.

1959: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, visiting Los Angeles, reacts angrily upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn’t get to visit Disneyland.

1960: Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, angrily checks out of the Shelburne Hotel in a dispute with the management; Castro accepts an invitation to stay at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.

1985: The Mexico City area is struck by a devastating earthquake that kills at least 9,500 people.

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1985: An on-board survey of the New Castle Area Transit Authority conducted by the business department of Westminster College gives bus service in the New Castle area good to excellent marks.

The Trumbull County Nursing Home is rapidly running out of operating funds and slowly running out of residents as county officials continue to debate whether the facility should be closed.

1970: Campbell will receive a $1 million grant from the Housing and Urban Development Department to replace its old water treatment plant, the office of the late Rep. Michael J. Kirwan announces.

U.S. District Court Judge William K. Thomas in Cleveland orders a halt to the strike at General Fireproofing Co., ruling that the walkout by 1,400 employees over grievances is illegal.

1960: Ground is broken on the $7.5 million Mahoning to Market Street expressway which is expected to be finished in two years. Some 300 building tradesmen from the Youngstown area will be working on the expressway when construction hits its peak, say building trades council officials.

Mrs. Alma Maag Brown, widow of William O. Brown, former President of the Vindicator Printing Co, dies at her home, 302 Boardman-Poland Road. She was 82.

1935: The 64-member Warren Boys’ Band wins the third successive time the national band championship held at the convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at New Orleans.

More than 50 Youngstown boys stationed at the CCC camp near Bosin, Mont., helped control a large forest fire in Elk Park, about 15 miles from Butte, Mont.