Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2014. There are 92 days left in the year.

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1791: Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” premieres in Vienna, Austria.

1846: Boston dentist William Morton uses ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracts an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.

1939: The first college football game to be televised is shown on experimental station W2XBS in New York as Fordham University defeats Waynesburg College, 34-7.

1949: The Berlin Airlift comes to an end.

1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

1955: Actor James Dean, 24, is killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.

1962: James Meredith, a black student, is escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he enrolls for classes the next day; Meredith’s presence sparks rioting that claims two lives.

The National Farm Workers Association, founded by Cesar Chavez and a forerunner of the United Farm Workers, held its first meeting in Fresno, California.

1984: The mystery series “Murder, She Wrote,” starring Angela Lansbury, premieres on CBS.

1986: The U.S. releases accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the Soviets released American journalist Nicholas Daniloff.

1997: France’s Roman Catholic Church apologizes for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.

2004: President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry meet at the University of Miami for their first presidential debate, with Kerry accusing Bush of a “colossal error in judgment” in ordering the invasion of Iraq and the president noting that Kerry had voted to authorize the action.

Bombs kill some three dozen children in Baghdad as U.S. troops hand out candy at a government-sponsored celebration.

The House follows the Senate in decisively rejecting a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Vioxx, the heavily promoted arthritis drug, was pulled from the market by its maker after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

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1989: Cleveland area officials are making a bid to win the 1992 Democratic Natonal Convention.

Jeffrey Chagnot, Youngs-town’s development director, credits U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. with helping the city win a $1.9 million federal grant to develop a sinter plant that will create 90 jobs.

Eastwood Industries, a manufacturer of automotive components, closes its doors in Lordstown, laying off the company’s final 50 employees.

1974: An armed bandit holds two women at gunpoint at Morgan’s Kentucky Fried Chicken shop at 2705 South Ave. while his two accomplices take $1,274 from the safe.

A parts shortage brought on by a strike at a supplier’s plant shuts down the van plant at the General Motors Corp.’s Lordstown Complex, idling 2,200 workers.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Clyde Osborne issues a contempt citation against Dayton Journal Herald reporter Andrew Alexander for ignoring a subpoena in the Mahoning County grand jury’s investigation of bribery in the Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation.

1964: The Mahoning Valley Vocational School, the nation’s first facility of its kind, is dedicated at the Youngstown Air Force Base. The school had bipartisan support, and Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes and Congressman Michael J. Kirwan, a Democrat, gave brief remarks.

Barnett Sandel, 82, of 419 Gypsy Lane, founder of Sandel’s Pawnbrokers, dies in Peaceful Acres Nursing Home.

1939: Six candidates for Youngstown mayor are spurring heavy voter registration, raising the total of eligible voters in the city to 68,745.

The Ohio Wesleyan Bishops score three touchdowns at Rayen Stadium to hand the Youngstown College Penguins their second defeat of the season, 19-13. Youngstown’s touchdowns were scored by James Heber of Newton Falls and John Leeson of Boardman.

“Follow the instructions of your superiors, and remember you are responsible only to the taxpayers of Youngstown,” Mayor Lionel Evans tells 12 rookie policemen sworn in at his City Hall office.