YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2015. There are 121 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1715: After a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France dies four days before his 77th birthday.

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr is found not guilty of treason. (Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted.)

1914: The last passenger pigeon in captivity, “Martha,” dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.

1923: The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama are devastated by an earthquake that claims some 140,000 lives.

1939: World War II begins as Nazi Germany invades Poland.

1945: Americans receive word of Japan’s formal surrender that ends World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)

1951: The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.

1969: A coup in Libya brings Moammar Gadhafi to power.

1976: U.S. Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, resigns in the wake of a scandal in which he admitted having an affair with “secretary” Elizabeth Ray.

1983: Some 269 people are killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace.

1985: A U.S.-French expedition locates the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off Newfoundland.

1995: A ribbon-cutting ceremony takes place for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. (The hall opened to the public the next day.)

2005: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issues a “desperate SOS” as his city descends into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina.

2010: President Barack Obama convenes a new round of ambitious Mideast peace talks at the White House as he hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the first face-to-face negotiations in nearly two years.

2014: President Barack Obama, addressing a union crowd in Milwaukee, renews his push for Congress to raise the minimum wage in a buoyant accounting of the economy’s “revving” performance.

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1990: Mickey Monus, president of the Youngstown Pride in the World Basketball League, and John Antonucci, vice president of the Pride, will be among the 10 to 15 limited partners who will own the Denver Major League Baseball team if that city is awarded an expansion franchise.

Striking employees at Valley-Vulcan Mold in Hubbard, members of United Steel Workers Local 1058, vote 146-31 to reject a concessionary contract that would have cut wages, increased employee contributions for insurance and altered the seniority system.

The Rev. Dr. Walter P. Carvin, former pastor of First Baptist Church of Warren, is named interim pastor of Pilgrim Collegiate United Church of Christ at 322 Wick Ave., Youngstown.

1975: Some 68,000 students are going back to school in Mahoning County, including 21,000 in Youngstown public schools and 10,576 in diocesan parochial schools in the county. The total is about 1,300 fewer than a year earlier.

Canfield Fair directors are urging people to carpool as heavy rains have turned large areas of the parking lot into mud pits.

South Side residents are on the lookout for a 50-pound ocelot that escaped from the home of Dr. Richard Murray at 2125 Glenwood Ave. The big cat may be in nearby Mill Creek Park.

1965: The 106th Ohio General Assembly adjourns without reaching agreement on an Ohio House reapportionment plan that would meet the U.S. Supreme Court’s one-man, one-vote mandate, which almost assures that a federal court will take on the job of redistricting.

August bows out with heavy showers totaling nearly 2 inches of rain in a 24-hour period.

A motorist loses control of his car at Market Street and Delason Avenue and crashes into the L.F. Donnell Ford dealership. Damage is set at $15,000.

1940: August sets a new record for marriage licenses in Mahoning County with 347 couples applying. Gomer Evans, license clerk, says he doubts the increase is due to military conscription, but more likely to the steel mills running at high capacity.

During the first week of mandatory alien registration, some 1,600 noncitizens are registered and fingerprinted in Youngstown.

Nearly 350 students enroll for day and evening classes of the Youngstown College business and secretarial classes, and more than 800 are enrolled in the liberal arts college.