Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2011. There are 100 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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.

1911: Pitcher Cy Young, 44, gains his 511th and final career victory as he hurls a 1-0 shutout for the Boston Rustlers against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field.

1927: Gene Tunney successfully defends his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous “long-count” fight in Chicago.

1961: The Interstate Commerce Commission issues rules prohibiting racial discrimination on interstate buses.

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

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: A 46-year-old Warren Township man is sentenced to two concurrent terms of life in prison for the rape of a 10-year-old boy, the longest sentence ever meted out in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in a nonhomicide case.

Vincent E. Gooden, director of the Mahoning County Department of Human Services, breaks his silence on moving the welfare offices and says he opposes a move to the McGuffey Mall.

1971: Two armed men take an undetermined amount of money from Lustig’s Shoe Store at 2622 Market St. after robbing store manager William Strossel.

The first course leading to a major in Black Studies at Youngstown State University will be offered when the fall quarter opens. It will be taught by Dominic J. Capeci, assistant professor of history, and Clarence Barnes, director of the Youngstown Urban League.

Stewart Wagner, acting superintendent of Austintown schools, is named superintendent at $22,000 a year.

1961: James Neilson Kennedy, 64, executive secretary of the Youngstown Committee on Alcoholism and director of the Alcoholic Clinic at 138 Lincoln Ave., dies of cancer.

“Unless the Mahoning Valley returns to respectability it will wither and die on the vine,” James W. Rayen, New York advertising executive, and former area newsman, tells the Youngstown Advertising Club.

1936: U.S. Sen. Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio says that differences with the Democratic Party in Ohio have been settled and the result will be President Roosevelt’s carrying Ohio.

The Treasury Department reports that there are 1,937 $10,000 notes in circulation, an increase of 812 more than a year ago.

Two Trumbull County pupils will be brought to the deaf classes at Bennett School under plans approved by the Youngstown Board of Education.