Years Ago

Today is Friday, Sept. 28, the 272nd day of 2012. There are 94 days left in the year.

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1066: William the Conqueror invades England to claim the English throne.

1850: Flogging is abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.

1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. (All are acquitted at trial, but all eight are banned from the game for life.)

1924: Three U.S. Army planes land in Seattle, having completed the first round-the-world trip by air in 175 days.

1939: During World War II, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a treaty calling for the partitioning of Poland, which the two countries had invaded.

1962: A federal appeals court finds Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett in civil contempt for blocking the admission of James Meredith, a black student, to the University of Mississippi. (Federal marshals escort Meredith onto the campus two days later.)

1989: Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos dies in exile in Hawaii at age 72.

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1987: Lawyers for convicted killer John Glenn file an appeal in the Ohio Supreme Court seeking to stay the scheduled Nov. 30 execution of Glenn, who shot Mahoning County Reserve Deputy Sonny Litch.

About 40 wineries are operating in Ohio and the state is developing a niche in the national marketplace, writes Ellen J. Sullivan, Vindicator staff writer.

Katherine McMillan, board president of the Warren Dance Centre and a supporter of ballet in the Mahoning Valley, says she fell in love with dance as an eight-year-old student in Pittsburgh, where one of her dance classmates was Gene Kelly.

1972: A Youngstown man and woman plead not guilty to federal charges in an $84,000 hold up of the Hubbard branch of the Mahoning National Bank.

Wean United Inc. ships a 134-ton idler gear from its Phelps Street plant to U.S. Steel Corp.’s 96-inch steel plat mill at Gary, Ind. United Engineering and Foundry, now a part of Wean United, built the plant in 1941.

A special meeting of shareholders will be held in November to change the name of General Fireproofing Co. to GF Business Equipment Inc.

1962: Three Youngstown car dealers are arrested at a Columbus auto auction, linked by police to the sale of 61 stolen automobiles in the tri-state area.

The Mahoning County Society for Crippled Children will build a new $200,000 rehabilitation center within the year, President Herbert H. Pridham announces at the annual meeting in the Hotel Pick-Ohio.

State Rep. Robert A. Taft Jr., Republican candidate for congressman-at-large, speaks to about 200 Neighbor-to-Neighbor fund-raising canvassers at the Idora Park ballroom.

1937: Youngstown City Council approves a two-year contract for garbage collection to James McCarron and Son Co. at a rate of $5.63 per ton, ignoring two lower bids.

Prosecutor Harold Tetlow hopes he has broken up a “grab racket” with the arrest of a Cleveland man who confiscated a washing machine bought by a local woman on the installment plan. Mrs. Charles Marshall had paid off all but $3 when H.V. Seas took the machine away. He was charged with impersonating an officer.