YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Sept. 21, the 264th day of 2015. There are 101 days left in the year.

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1792: The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.

1893: One of America’s first horseless carriages is taken for a short test drive in Springfield, Mass., by Frank Duryea, who had designed the vehicle with his brother, Charles.

1897: The New York Sun runs its famous editorial, written anonymously by Francis P. Church, which declares, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”

1912: Magician Harry Houdini first publicly performs his “Water Torture Cell” trick at the Circus Busch in Berlin.

1938: A hurricane strikes parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming some 700 lives.

1948: Milton Berle debuts as permanent host of “The Texaco Star Theater” on NBC-TV.

1970: “NFL Monday Night Football” debuts on ABC-TV as the Cleveland Browns defeat the visiting New York Jets, 31-21.

1989: Hurricane Hugo crashes into Charleston, S.C., (the storm was blamed for 56 deaths in the Caribbean and 29 in the United States).

2005: Hurricane Rita swirls toward the Gulf Coast as a Category 5, 165-mph monster as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana are evacuated.

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1990: Cold Metal Products Co. marks its 10th year as an independent company, having split form Jones & Laughlin and LTV Steel. The company has annual sales of $180 million and 850 employees, 280 of which are at the South Montgomery Avenue plant in Youngstown.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency unearths barrels of an unknown substance at the former ARA Aluminum Extrusion Co. in Weathersfield Township, raising concerns about a potential threat to the Mahoning Valley’s primary water source, the MVSD reservoir.

A marker containing the names of 194 pioneers buried in Boatman Cemetery in East Palestine is dedicated through the efforts of Kathryn Bauknecht. The cemetery, which hasn’t had a new burial since 1881, contains the bodies of three Revolutionary War veterans and eight veterans each of the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

1975: Richard Iacovangelo, 27, varsity football coach at Beaver Local School District and a former assistant to head coach Don Bucci at Cardinal Mooney, is killed in a three-car crash on Route 154 between Lisbon and Elkton. He was on his way to pick up film of a Friday night game to show to the team.

The 114-year-old Elm Street Congregational Church, once well-known for its Welsh songfests, becomes too expensive for its congregation to keep up and is for sale, after which the congregation will disband.

The Youngstown-Warren metropolitan area does not fare well in a “Quality of Life” survey by the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, receiving only an “adequate” rating while Cleveland and Columbus were “excellent” and Akron, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo received “good” ratings.

1965: John V. Maki, 62, of Warren is crushed to death by a small locomotive at the Copperweld Steel plant in Warren.

Craig H. Neuman, former Youngstowner and a graduate of Youngstown University, is named executive secretary of the Trumbull County Child Welfare Board.

Johnny Golden of Columbiana is under contract to Warner Brothers Records, and his first record is released with “Hoopsie” on the “air side” and “Angel on Earth” on the flip side.

The Lyden Oil Co. of Youngstown acquires a chain of 24 Citgo service stations in Toledo.

1940: A $6,500 fire destroys the home of John Dalansky on Coitsville Road, capping a week of tragedy for the Dalansky family. Mrs. Delansky was in St. Elizabeth Hospital after giving birth to a baby 10 days ago that died shortly after birth. Also lost in the fire was the family’s savings, which Delansky withdrew from the bank to pay the hospital bill.

Youngstown College and the Bernard Airport get authorization to train 30 instead of 20 Youngstown district men and women as airplane pilots.

Youngstown police Chief John Turnbull announces the appointment of three cadet patrolmen: John P. Schragel, 29; George J. Maxim, 24, and Anthony Grybos, 25.