YEARS AGO

September 19, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2015. There are 103 days left in the year.

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1777: The first Battle of Saratoga is fought during the Revolutionary War; although British forces succeed in driving out the American troops, the Americans prevailed in a second battle the following month.

1796: President George Washington’s farewell address is published.

1881: The 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, dies 21/2 months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur becomes president.

1934: Bruno Hauptmann is arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

1945: Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” is convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a British court.

1955: President Juan Peron of Argentina is ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.

1959: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, visiting Los Angeles, reacts angrily upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn’t get to visit Disneyland.

1960: Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, angrily checks out of the Shelburne Hotel in a dispute with the management; Castro ends up staying at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.

1985: The Mexico City area is struck by a devastating earthquake that kills at least 9,500 people.

1995: The New York Times and The Washington Post publish the manifesto of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, which proves instrumental in identifying and capturing him.

2010: The BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is declared “effectively dead” by retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government’s point man on the blowout disaster, after it was sealed with a permanent concrete plug.

2014: President Barack Obama signs legislation authorizing the military to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels fighting Islamic State militants in the Middle East.

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1990: Three of five members of the Warren Board of Education speak favorably of requiring students to wear uniforms, but will seek a legal opinion from the Ohio School Boards Association before taking action.

A knife attack on a nurses aide in an elevator at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center prompts the hospital to tighten security measures.

A state office building in downtown Youngstown “is very desirable,” says the campaign chairman for Republican gubernatorial candidate George Voinovich.

1975: Columbia Gas Co. announces its fourth hike in natural-gas rates for Canfield residents in a year and its ninth rate hike in 22 months. One resident said his monthly bill of $24 has increased to $34 during that period.

More than 20,000 hourly rated General Motors Corp. employees in the Mahoning Valley will get pay increases ranging from $4.80 to $10.40 per week, on top of a cost-of-living boost that averaged $3.60 a week.

Trumbull County Treasurer Carl N. Lupi will resign from office Jan. 31, ending a political career that was as turbulent as it was short-lived. Lupi attempted to fire his entire staff after being appointed to the post in May 1974 to succeed the late Harold “Doc” Williams. More recently, a grand jury began investigating financial irregularities in the office.

1965: Kent State University opens its Warren Branch in a building formerly occupied by Mullins Manufacturing Co. on University Street. The building can accommodate 600 students.

With the completion of the $33 million Shenango Dam and Reservoir and the $17 million West Branch Reservoir, the Eastern Ohio-Western Pennsylvania area will have one of the nation’s best reservoir system.

Three Neshannock High School seniors from New Castle receive awards for academic achievement in the National Merit Scholarship program. They are Polly Burnside, John Dean and Geoffrey Phelan.

1940: Republic Steel Corp. directors order payment of $12 a share in accumulated dividends on common stock for which no dividends were paid for 10 years.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan tells members of the Struthers Businessmen’s Association that the conscription act is a “vital necessity” and that “we must prepare to make sacrifices to get back the America we used to know.”

Catholic Archbishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland, who voted for Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, says he will vote for Republican Wendell Willkie in November. “Two terms are enough for any man,” the bishop says.