Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2011. There are 119 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1189: England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1783: Representatives of the United States and Britain sign the Treaty of Paris, which officially ends the Revolutionary War.

1861: During the Civil War, Confederate forces invade the border state of Kentucky, which had declared its neutrality in the conflict; the incursion prompts the legislature to seek assistance from the Union.

1923: The United States and Mexico resume diplomatic relations.

1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.

1951: The television soap opera “Search for Tomorrow” makes its debut on CBS.

1971: Qatar becomes independent of British rule.

1976: America’s Viking 2 lander touches down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface.

1978: Pope John Paul I is formally installed as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. (However, he dies less than a month later.)

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1986: Twelve busloads of LTV Corp. retirees roll into New York City to rally outside a federal courthouse to protest the cutoff of insurance and health coverage LTV is seeking as part of its bankruptcy petition.

A teachers strike in Newton Falls enters its third day after teachers reject the board’s offer of an increase in the base salary from $14,700 to $15,600 the first year and $16,350 the second year.

Speaking at a luncheon in his honor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Youngstown, Ohio Sen. Howard Metzenbaum says the crisis in the American steel industry is the responsibility of the Reagan administration, which has failed to address the problem of foreign imports.

1971: Identification cards will be issued to students in some of Youngstown’s high schools to try to eliminate outsiders from extracurricular functions, particularly dances.

Common Pleas Judge Elwyn V. Jenkins rules that Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin must open part of his files in the Richard Lee Kelly murder trial to defense attorneys Peter Economus and Joseph D. Betras.

Common Pleas Judge Forrest J. Cavalier commits Robert M. Williams, 21, of Poland to Lima State Hospital as insane until such time as he is capable of standing trial for murder in the July deaths of a Poland barber and an 11-year-old boy.

1961: A little red caboose is added to the permanent exhibits at the Canfield Fairgrounds. The Pennsylvania Railroad caboose is presented to the fair board by the Railroad Community Committee of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys.

James P. Griffith is the newly elected president of the Youngstown Education Association, succeeding Norman Alexander as head of the organization that represents 1,000 city school teachers.

William Shranko, a Youngstown naval reserve seaman, is one of only 40 members of the Bluejacket Choir at the United States Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Ill.

Portage County Common Pleas Judge James G. France overrules the State Board of Education and says 115 Warren Township school children can attend Warren city schools. The students are residents of Starlight Estates, a development of 124 acres annexed to the city in 1958, but which remained in Warren Township School District.

1936: Visitors to the 90th annual Canfield Fair will find nearly $150,000 in new WPA improvements on the grounds, including a new grandstand with room for 5,000 people.

Refusal of a few property owners to cooperate ends plans to widen Market Street between Princeton and Dewey Avenue as a WPA project.

May Looney of Warren is one of 13 entrants in the Canadian national exhibition professional three-mile swim for women in Lake Ontario, competing for a $2,000 prize. Miss Looney was the 1934 winner.