YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2015. There are 119 days left in the year.

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1189: England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1658: Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, dies in London; he is succeeded by his son, Richard.

1783: Representatives of the United States and Britain sign the Treaty of Paris, which officially ends the Revolutionary War.

1868: The Japanese city of Edo is renamed Tokyo.

1914: Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa becomes pope; he takes the name Benedict XV.

1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.

1940: Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five record “Summit Ridge Drive” and “Special Delivery Stomp” for RCA Victor.

1967: The original version of the television game show “What’s My Line?,” hosted by John Charles Daly, broadcasts its final episode after more than 17 years on CBS.

1976: America’s Viking 2 lander touches down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface.

1989: A Cubana de Aviacion jetliner crashes after takeoff in Havana, killing all 126 aboard and 45 people on the ground.

1995: The online auction site eBay is founded in San Jose, Calif., by Pierre Omidyar under the name “AuctionWeb.”

2005: President George W. Bush orders more than 7,000 active-duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his administration intensifies efforts to rescue Katrina survivors and send aid to the hurricane-ravaged region in the face of criticism it did not act quickly enough.

U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist dies in Arlington, Va., at age 80, after more than three decades on the Supreme Court.

2010: Defense Secretary Robert Gates tours U.S. bases and war zones in Afghanistan, saying he saw and heard evidence that the American counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.

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1990: The Western Reserve Transit Authority will pioneer the conversion of bus fleets to natural gas in a joint state and federally financed project.

Ray Reber, president of USW Local 1375, says workers at Warren Consolidated realize that after LTV sold the plant that if the Warren Works fail, they have no place to transfer to, and they’re committed to making the local plant a success.

Sandi Patti, known in the Christian music world as “The Voice,” has the grandstand crowd at the Canfield Fair singing along with her Christian contemporary hits.

1975: Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge Martin Joyce promises that there will be accommodations at the Juvenile Research Center for anyone under 18 involved in fighting, rowdyism or vandalism at night football games.

An ill-conceived hold-up plan backfires, resulting in the death of a 16-year-old Hawthorne Street boy, when the owner of Tiny’s Bar on Salt Springs Road opens fire on the would-be robber.

Girard Recreation Director Phillip Koppel says the swimming pool operated by the city at the Mahoning Country Club will remain open as long as weather permits. Admission is 25 cents for anyone under 12 and 50 cents for those older.

1965: J. Paul Mossman, executive vice president of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, tells some 300 new teachers attending the chamber’s annual breakfast for them at the Hotel Pick-Ohio, “The future of the Youngstown district ... rests in your hands.”

Bandits herd 15 customers and staff at the West Side Branch of Union Savings & Trust Co. in Warren into a vault and escape with $68,621.

Under a new state law, pedestrians and slow-moving vehicles such as farm tractors, bicycles, motorbikes and animal-drawn vehicles, are not permitted on Ohio’s freeways.

1940: About 44,600 school children report for classes in Mahoning County, 29,000 in Youngstown public schools, 7,000 in parochial schools and 8,600 in county schools.

Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden issues a temporary injunction restraining the Mahoning County Board of Elections from checking the signatures on petitions filed by Communist candidates. Atty. Nathan Kauffman filed a taxpayer suit contending that under the U.S. Constitution, the Communist Party has no legal standing as a party and its members have no legal right to vote or run for office.

More than 40,000 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. employees and their families attend the 27th annual field day at Idora Park.