Years Ago

September 20, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 2010. There are 102 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1870: Italian troops take control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.

1873: Panic sweeps the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.

1884: The National Equal Rights Party is formed during a convention of suffragists in San Francisco; the convention nominates Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood for president.

1958: Martin Luther King Jr. is seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when Izola Curry stabs him in the chest. (Curry is later found mentally incompetent.)

2000: Independent Counsel Robert Ray announces the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President and Mrs. Clinton.

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1985: “Auntie Tillie” Rollin, Youngstown’s oldest citizen who was born when Ulysses S. Grant was president, dies of infirmities in Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital. She was 111.

Six people remain hospitalized following the evacuation of about 150 residents from the O’Brien Memorial Nursing Home in Brookfield after a custodian’s cleaning agent combination gives off chlorine gas.

1970: Lt. Col. Frank R. Hamilton of Marion is named commander of the 910th Tactical Air Support Group at the Air Force Reserve Base in Youngstown.

When Youngstown State University opens its fall quarter, it is expected to have an enrollment of 16,000.

1960: Faced with an expanding population and a stagnant income, Austintown Township trustees say the township’s five constables will have to work longer hours at the same pay in order to provide 24-hour coverage.

Mercer County District Attorney John Q. Stranahan files burglary charges against Phillip “Fleegle” Mainer, 35, a Youngstown gang figure accused of being one of two lookouts during the burglary of a downtown Sharon men’s store.

1935: Bernard West, 14, of Fairview Avenue, Canfield, dies in the South Side unit of the Youngstown Hospital, becoming the sixth victim of a crash that killed a Canfield teacher and five students returning home from the funeral of a classmate who died in a shooting accident.

Assistant fire chief Herman Steinfurt, a 22-year veteran, is named acting Youngstown fire chief while Chief Harry Callan is on a leave of absence, campaigning for mayor.