Years Ago

September 22, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2010. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 11:09 p.m. EDT.

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On this date in:

1776: During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, is hanged as a spy by the British in New York.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

1964: The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” opens on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.

1975: Sara Jane Moore attempts to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but misses. (Moore served 32 years in prison before being paroled on Dec. 31, 2007.)

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1985: Youngstown will receive its full share of federal revenue sharing, $2.3 million in 1986, but city officials say the future of the program remains in doubt.

Trumbull Treasurer David Hines says delinquent taxpayers have paid nearly $250,000 in the 10 days since he sent out letters saying the names of those who didn’t pay their taxes would be published.

1970: Atty. David Dennison, a former congressman, is named to the Federal Trade Commission.

William F. Briguglio, Youngstown businessman, is appointed by Board of Education members to fill the unexpired term of Atty. Robert Murphy despite protests from some of the city’s black community leaders, who suggested funeral director McCullough Williams Jr. for the opening.

Two men, both wearing masks and one armed, hold up a teller at First National Bank on East State Street in Salem.

1960: More than 1,500 voters register on one day, bringing Mahoning County’s registration for the November election to 140,000.

Youngstown city council approves the sale of $6 million in arterial highway bonds at an interest rate of 3.5 percent to Chase Manhattan National Bank of New York.

1935: Arthur Canning, 22, who excelled in music as a student at Youngstown South High School, has joined the faculty of the Ernest Williams Band and Orchestra School in New York City, where he will teach classical violin.

C.V. Hawkes, manager of the Knull Machine Co., sues for return of slot machines confiscated by police, saying his business is “just as legitimate as a department store.”

With 100 days remaining in the year, Youngstown has already registered 35 traffic fatalities, more than for all of 1934. Even in the years 1929 through 1931, when the year-end toll was in the 40s, there had not been 35 deaths by mid-September.