Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2011. There are 95 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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 sinks 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.

1941: The U.S. launches 14 rapidly built military cargo vessels on “Liberty Fleet Day,” including the first Liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry.

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

1991: President George H.W. Bush announces in a nationally broadcast address that he is eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and calls on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.

The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocks, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Salaried LTV employees and retirees are told that their pensions will be taken over by the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources announces that it will deny a permit to SolidTek Systems Inc. to build a hazardous waste treatment plant in North Beaver Township, Lawrence County.

1971: Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church, 626 Wick Ave., will observe its 65th anniversary with Bishop Valerian, bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, as a guest.

Two men are killed and another suffers burns when a television antenna they were installing at a Parkman Road home in Warren comes in contact with a high tension wire. Dead are Raymond Walton and Daniel Moore. Injured is Paul Bridges.

1961: Joan Pletnik is chosen Youngstown University’s 1961 homecoming queen.

Juvenile Court Referee Joseph Bryan says an East Side mother and father will take turns serving 10-day jail terms each if they fail to keep their six children in school.

The Coast Guard rescues John Hrusovsky of Lowellville, and John J. Hamarik of Youngstown from a pierhead wall in Lake Erie at Ashtabula, where they had spent nearly 17 hours exposed to high water and the weather.

1936: George E. Sokolsky, former Communist, anarchist and IWW sympathizer, now a convert to conservatism, will speak at Stambaugh Auditorium, sponsored by the Youngstown Foreman’s Club.

Seeking to cut the alarming number of traffic deaths, the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce suggests establishing a traffic school at Youngstown College to train traffic officers.

Trumbull County Sheriff Roy F. Hardman and 10 deputies go to the Fowler dog track to attend what had been advertised as the first day of a 30-day racing schedule, but find the track dark.