YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2015. There are 100 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset.

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On this date in:

1776: During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, is hanged as a spy by the British in New York.

1792: The first French Republic is proclaimed.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

1911: Pitcher Cy Young, 44, gains his 511th and final career victory as he hurls a 1-0 shutout for the Boston Rustlers against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field.

1927: Gene Tunney successfully defends his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous “long-count” fight in Chicago.

1949: The Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.

1964: The musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” starring Zero Mostel, opens on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.

The secret-agent series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, premieres on NBC-TV.

1975: Sara Jane Moore attempts to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but misses. (Moore served 32 years in prison before being paroled Dec. 31, 2007.)

1985: Rock and country music artists participate in “Farm Aid,” a concert staged in Champaign, Ill., to help the nation’s farmers.

1995: An AWACS plane carrying U.S. and Canadian military personnel crashes on takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all 24 people aboard.

2005: Hurricane Rita, weakened to Category 4 status, closes in on the Texas coast, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing on a frustratingly slow, bumper-to-bumper exodus.

2010: Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi commits suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River after an intimate gay encounter in his dormitory room purportedly was captured by a webcam and streamed online by his roommate without his knowledge. (Dharun Ravi was convicted of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and other counts and served less than a month in jail.)

2014: The United States and five Arab nations launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, sending waves of planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles against an array of targets.

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1990: Planned Parenthood will help pregnant teenagers get abortions in Pennsylvania if they choose not to follow Ohio law requiring parental notification or court approval, says Joan West, public affairs coordinator.

Warren fire Chief Roger Hernon accuses Mayor Daniel Sferra of “trying to shut down fire protection” after Sferra ordered the chief to take 20 days off without pay, accusing Hernon of approving overtime for firefighters that Sferra had prohibited.

Coach Don Bucci’s Mooney Cardinals squeeze out a 22-21 victory over Canton McKinley at Stambaugh Stadium.

1975: James M. Gentile, former football star at Struthers High School and Ohio State University, receives his doctor of dental surgery degree at Ohio State.

Liberty police arrest four people, cracking a theft ring at the Fisher-Fazio store in the Liberty Plaza in which losses were estimated at $52,000.

The badly beaten body of a man found behind the Days Inn Motel in Austintown is identified as that of John B. Conte, 50, of Mentor, a sales representative with the Merchants-Industrial Vending Corp. of Mentor.

1965: Carl “Lucky” Venzeio, 54, is arrested by Youngstown police who stopped his car on Route 422 near Coitsville Center and found 764 football betting slips inside.

Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Jack Sulligan and an unidentified North Side service-station operator jointly held the winning ticket for a new Cadillac raffled at a fundraising party for Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask.

The Youngstown area has 45 semifinalists in the 1965-66 competition for National Merit Scholarships. Youngstown has seven.

John S. Franko, visiting the farm of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lyda on Felger Road, discovers a mushroom 10 inches across and weighing 10 pounds.

1940: The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce will make a bid to bring the national convention of the American Iron and Steel Institute to the city in 1941.

Parents of 10 children, associated with Jehovah’s Witnesses, who have been expelled from Liberty Township School for refusing to salute the flag, appeal to the township school board to reconsider its action in ousting the children.

The famous United States Naval Band, one of the great musical organizations of the country, will give two performances Sept. 29 at Stambaugh Auditorium.