YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2015. There are 96 days left in the year.

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1777: British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.

1789: Thomas Jefferson is confirmed by the Senate to be the first United States secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; and Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.

1892: John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band perform publicly for the first time, at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, N.J.

1914: The Federal Trade Commission is established.

1918: The Meuse-Argonne offensive, resulting in an Allied victory against the Germans, begins during World War I.

1937: The radio drama “The Shadow,” starring Orson Welles, premieres on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1945: Hungarian-born composer Bela Bartok, 64, dies in New York City.

1955: After word that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange sees its worst price decline since 1929.

1960: The first televised debate between presidential nominees takes place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon face off from Chicago.

1964: The situation comedy “Gilligan’s Island” premieres on CBS-TV.

1986: William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.

1990: The Motion Picture Association of America announces it has created a new rating, NC-17, to replace the X rating. (The first movie to receive the new rating was “Henry & June.”)

2010: Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who later became the oldest Academy Award acting nominee as the spunky survivor in “Titanic,” dies in Los Angeles at age 100.

2014:American warplanes and drones hit Islamic State group targets in Syria and Iraq as the U.S.-led coalition expands to include Britain, Denmark and Belgium.

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton gives birth in New York to her first child, a daughter named Charlotte.

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1990: Warren Superintendent Louis Cardamone announces that the city school district no longer can afford to send teachers to educational conferences.

As many as 8,000 people are expected to apply for 100 jobs at the Wholesale Club Store that will open Nov. 15 in Niles, with jobs paying $5.50 an hour.

Clyde Metz, Hubbard superintendent of schools for six years, announces his retirement, telling the board of education that Hubbard is a great school system, but “it’s time for a change.”

1975: There are no open nursing beds in the Youngstown area for anyone, whether paying patients or Medicaid patients, a poll shows.

The Youngstown Public Services Employment Agency will accept applications for 66 new jobs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.

The body of Dayton businessman Lester C. Emoff, 67, is found in a wooded area near Dayton despite his family’s paying his kidnappers $400,000.

1965: The first section of the Lake Erie-Ohio River Freeway, a 3.9-mile stretch between Calcutta and East Liverpool, will open to traffic in November 1966. It will cost $3.3 million.

Charles Kilgore of Cincinnati succeeds Harry Simpson of Columbiana as chairman of the 19th annual 751st Tank Battalion reunion at the Pick-Ohio Hotel in Youngstown.

Two Ellsworth Township boys, 14 and 15 years old, are returned to their parents after admitting to Sheriff Ray T. Davis that they were responsible for more than $2,000 in vandalism to the Leffingwell Country Club in Canfield. The parents of one boy cooperated in the investigation.

1940: Atty. Herman N. George of Youngstown will receive the 33rd Masonic degree after being elected at the 128th annual meeting of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry meeting in Cincinnati.

Metal safety emblems that fit over license plates go on sale in four downtown Youngstown stores for 25 cents.

Eighty men, practically the entire working force of the American Welding and Manufacturing Co. in Warren, go on strike in protest over the delay in negotiating a CIO contract.