Years Ago

Today is Monday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2014. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 10:29 p.m. Eastern time.

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On this date in:

1776: During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, is hanged as a spy by the British in New York.

1761: Britain’s King George III and his wife, Charlotte, are crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1792: The French Republic is proclaimed.

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.

1938: The musical comedy revue “Hellzapoppin’,” starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, begins a three-year run on Broadway.

1949: The Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.

1950: Omar N. Bradley is promoted to the rank of five-star general, joining an elite group that includes Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall and Henry H. “Hap” Arnold.

1964: The musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” starring Zero Mostel, opens on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.

The secret agent series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”, starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, premieres on NBC-TV.

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

1989: The Irish Republican Army bombs the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal, Kent, England, killing 11 band members.

Songwriter Irving Berlin dies in New York City at age 101.

1994: The comedy “Friends” debuts on NBC.

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1989: A federal grand jury in Cleveland returns an indictment charging a bankrupt wrecking company and three of its employees with conspiracy and violations of the federal Clean Air Act during demolition of the LTV Campbell Works.

Construction equipment, including cement mixers carrying the “Penguin Power” motto, is auctioned from the Logan Avenue headquarters of the YBM Corp., ending the Youngstown company’s history of 105 years.

Camp Stambaugh marks 70 years as the camping home to thousands of Mahoning County Boy Scouts.

1974: Youngstown area industry and labor are joining in a determined battle against “Business Enemy No. 1,” alcoholism and drugs, and the enormous toll they take in money and human resources.

The Rev. Vernon Holte is installed as the first administrator of Shepherd of the Valley Nursing Home and Retirement Community in Niles.

Simeon Booker Jr., a former Youngstowner who has become an award-winning journalist, will speak at the first annual Youngstown Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation banquet at the Brentford House in Hubbard.

1964: Two young Mahoning County girls are killed in separate traffic accidents: Mary Lou Zimmerman, 3, of Berlin Center, and Stephanie Kubico, 9, of Struthers.

Mrs. Margaret Helsel, 51, of Girard is killed and her husband, Ralph, 55, is injured, when their car strikes a culvert near Wells, Nev.

1939: The sudden upturn in industrial employment in the Youngstown district has caused an acute labor shortage for WPA projects in Mahoning County for which about 1,000 men are needed.

The Mahoning County Bar Association endorses Municipal Judge Peter Mulholland for re-election over his challengers, Benjamin Vennitti and Joseph N. Higley Jr.