Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2014. There are 95 days left in the year.

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1779: John Adams is named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain.

1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurs when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.

1928: The United States says it is recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.

1939: Warsaw, Poland, surrenders after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.

1942: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform together for the last time, at the Central Theater in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller’s entry into the Army.

1944: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, 53, dies in Oakland, Calif.

1954: “Tonight!,” hosted by Steve Allen, makes its debut on NBC-TV.

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

1979: Congress gives its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.

1989: Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc. agrees to a $3.4 billion cash buyout by Sony Corp.

1994: More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gather on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the “Contract with America,” a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

2004: President George W. Bush asks Congress for more than $7.1 billion to help Florida and other Southeastern states recover from their lashing by four hurricanes.

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1989: Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties will share more than $800,000 in state Local Government Assistance Funds in 1989, and more than $2.1 million in 1990.

Nick Miller is the new official in charge of the National Weather Service office in Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Metropolitan Savings Bank fires up a new advertising campaign that includes one television spot in which Pete Asimakopoulos, manager of the Boardman branch, jumps through a flaming hoop, and another in which Sam Buzzacco, Hubbard branch manager, stands on his head.

1974: Probate Judge Charles P. Henderson says that persons under 18 years who want to get married will have to furnish the marriage-license clerk in Probate Court with a written statement of approval from a qualified marriage counselor.

One of three civilians involved in the Youngstown police burglary ring pleads guilty to a reduced charge of burglary and is sentenced to six months in Mahoning County jail.

Dr. Richard Murray, Youngstown plastic surgeon and a student of the 16th century mystic prophet Nostradamus, predicts to the Downtown Lion’s Club that by July 1975 Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican vice presidential nominee, will replace President Gerald Ford.

1964: A new $382,000 St. Michael Church in Route 46 just north of Canfield will be dedicated by Bishop Emmet M. Walsh. The parish began in 1960 as a mission of St. Charles Church, and became a parish in 1962 with the Rev. Hugh Gallagher as pastor.

After a slow start, the YU Penguins come from behind to beat Eastern Kentucky, 21-7, at Rayen Stadium.

The state will appeal the 10th Ohio Court of Appeals ruling that 3,000 employees must be paid for the May 30 and July 4 holidays, even though they fell on a Saturday.

1939: Mrs. Jessie H. Sutherland, 73, is home in Youngstown from her “last long voyage,” which included huddling on a lifeboat for 10 hours after a torpedo sunk the steamer Athenia on which she was traveling Sept. 3.

Workmen begin paving the 3,600-foot east-west runway at the Youngstown Municipal Airport in Vienna.

The five Republican candidates for Youngstown mayor hold a conference to discuss narrowing the field, but no one volunteers to drop out. The candidates are Fred G. Weimer, Tom L. Barrowman, Guy T. Ohl, Arthur Williams and Fred Griffiths.