Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2014. There are 94 days left in the year.

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

1787: The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.

1841: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completes his poem “Excelsior.”

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

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

1958: Voters in the African country of Guinea overwhelmingly favor independence from France.

1964: Famed comedian Harpo Marx, 75, dies in Los Angeles.

1974: First lady Betty Ford undergoes a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland.

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

1994: An Estonian ferry capsizes and sinks in the Baltic Sea with the loss of 852 lives.

2004: An earthquake measuring magnitude 6.0 rocks central California.

Award-winning fashion designer Geoffrey Beene dies in New York at age 77.

2013: Locked in a struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans demand a one-year delay in major parts of the nation’s new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for Oct. 1.

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1989: Commercial Intertech Corp.’s directors are attempting to thwart a takeover bid by Haas and Partners, which has put together a bid of about $355 million for the Youngstown company.

Poland school officials are considering a “pay to play” policy for extracurricular activities if voters reject levies on the November ballot.

Local judges are looking for alternatives to incarceration because the Mahoning County Jail has 172 prisoners, about 10 over capacity.

1974: Greg Molter, a Youngstown trucker, says truckers will be posted at 140 entrances to Ohio to block truck traffic in protest of speed limits, fuel costs and alleged harassment by the Ohio State Patrol.

Ohio Lottery officials win federal recognition of the state Lotto, which will allow the state to use the mails to send out lottery information and prize payments. They will continue to seek legislation that would allow newspapers to print lottery results without being blocked from mailing papers.

Glenn Mankin, a systems manager for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is elected president of the Poland Optimists Club.

1964: J. Richard Andrews, 53, a prominent Youngstown attorney and recognized expert on estates, dies in Columbus.

The Very Rev. George R. Selway, a former basketball star at McKinley High School, who served many churches in Ohio will be consecrated as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan.

1939: Sharon Mayor Ralph E. Johnson promises a shake-up in the police department unless there is a reduction in petty crime in the city.

Copperweld Steel Co., which has been operating in Pennsylvania for 24 years, is taking over the American Puddled Iron Co. on Mahoning Avenue in Warren and will build an adjacent $2 million plant that will employ 700 men when it opens.

Moriz Rosenthal, the 76-year-old piano master termed the greatest pupil of Franz Liszt, is booked to play with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra in January.