Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2011. There are 118 days left in the year.

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1886: A group of Apache Indians led by Geronimo surrender to Gen. Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.

1888: George Eastman receives a patent for his roll-film box camera, and registers his trademark: “Kodak.”

1917: The American Expeditionary Forces in France suffer their first fatalities during World War I when a German plane attacks a British-run base hospital.

1951: President Harry S. Truman addresses the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast.

1957: Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus uses Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High School in Little Rock.

1969: The Food and Drug Administration issues a report calling birth control pills “safe,” despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills.

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1986: Youngstown officials are enthusiastic about a proposal by Mahoning County Sheriff Edward Nemeth that city prisoners be housed in the county jail.

Eight new cadets are sworn in as members of the Youngstown Police Force: Ronnie Jones, Vincent Mack, Michael Harris, Carl Davis, Douglas Bobovnyik, Charles Swanson, Richard Baldwin and Bruce Palmer.

1971: Unusually dry weather in August leaves reservoirs in the Mahoning River basin below level for boating and swimming during the Labor Day weekend.

A new class graduates from the Hannah E. Mullins School of Practical Nursing in Salem: Elaine Dmitrovich, Deborah Defabio, Melanie Peters, Kathy Heatherington, Vicky Gerier, Linda Talstein, Maxine Kiewall, Edith Smith, Evelyn Babie, Sue Chambers, Marguerite Wilbarger, Edith Dunlap, Martha Bell, Judy Burrows, Shirley Morris, Marilyn Bossard, Helen Gibson, Patricia Jeffers, Donna Readshaw, Marilyn Shinn, Denise Lanzer, Mary Jones and Donna Swallow.

1961: With the Canfield Fair over, more than 100,000 youngsters in the Youngstown district are returning to classrooms, including 27,300 who will be attending city schools.

The third spectacular derailment in two weeks on the Pennsylvania Railroad track near East Palestine causes rail traffic to be diverted while crews clean up cars and repair track.

Mahoning County Recorder William D. Holt says 116 former soldiers, sailors and Marines have failed to pick up their honorable discharge papers, which are being held in the recorder’s office for them.

1936: Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser will decide when 250 girl employees of the Triangle Raincoat Co. receive a promised 5 percent wage increase following his arbitration that ended in an eight-day strike at the E. Federal Street plant.

The bridge committee of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce votes to call upon Gov. Martin L. Davey to instruct the Ohio Bridge Commission to proceed with the immediate purchase of two toll bridges over the Ohio River, for $1.25 million and $1.6 million. The state could reduce the tolls by 50 percent and pay off the bonds in eight years, the committee says.