Years Ago

September 27, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2010. There are 95 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1540: Pope Paul III issues a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as a religious order.

1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurs when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survive.

1928: The United States says it is recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.

1939: Warsaw, Poland, surrenders after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.

1942: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform together for the last time, at the Central Theater in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller’s entry into the Army.

1964: The government publicly releases the report of the Warren Commission, which found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

1979: Congress gives final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.

1994: More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gather on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the “Contract with America,” a 10-point platform they pledge to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

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1985: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development withdraws a grant being sought for development of the proposed $33 million Ronneburg Brewery in North Jackson.

Craig Beach council adopts a list of 13 provisions that it says GM and Youngstown must meet before the company can drill for gas on city-owned land along Lake Milton.

1970: The Youngstown district economy is losing $1 million a day as the nationwide General Motors strike continues. Some 18,000 workers at the Lordstown and Packard Electric plants have been idled.

R. Thornton Beeghly and William B. Pollock II are cochairmen of a $2.6 million fund drive for the Youngstown Hospital Association.

1960: Mayor Frank R. Franko and City Engineer Phillip Richley tell Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. officials that the city cannot approve a resolution allowing the company to increase the smoke it produces in its steel operations.

Westminster Presbyterian Church lays a cornerstone for its new $417,000 building on Stadium Drive.

1935: Team captains in a drive to raise $30,000 for the Florence Crittenton Home in Youngstown get their “marching orders” during a meeting at the Women’s City Club.

Youngstown’s proposal for slum clearance and housing construction is not among the 37 approved for funding by the federal government.

Brooks Bowman of Salem, a student at Princeton who hasn’t reached his 22nd birthday, has written two of “Tin Pan Alley’s” best sellers of 1935, “Love and a Dime” and “East of the Sun.”