Today is Sunday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2015

Today is Sunday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2015. There are 95 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1540: Pope Paul III issues a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as a religious order.

1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurs when the steamship SS Arctic sinks off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survive.

1935: Judy Garland, at age 13, signs a seven-year contract with MGM.

1939: Warsaw, Poland, surrenders after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.

1942: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform together for the last time at the Central Theater in Passaic, N.J.

1954: “Tonight!,” hosted by Steve Allen, debuts on NBC-TV.

1964: The government publicly releases the report of the Warren Commission, which concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

1965: Silent film star Clara Bow, 60, dies in Los Angeles.

1995: The government unveils its redesigned $100 bill, featuring a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin. (Yet another redesign, featuring a high-tech makeover aimed at thwarting counterfeiters, was announced in April 2010.)

2014: President Barack Obama, in an address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, said that a widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo., existed in too many other communities and was having a corrosive effect on the nation, particularly its children.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Plans to merge New Middletown’s rescue squad with Springfield Township’s unit come to an abrupt halt when a township trustee said the township wants village water as a requirement of an agreement.

Youngstown City Council applies for a $65,000 federal loan to buy the St. Vincent DePaul Society property on Oak Hill Avenue across from the former B&O Railroad station. The city hopes to develop a restaurant at the site.

The former Brown Derby Players restaurant on Mahoning Avenue Northwest in Warren is being renovated to reopen as a sports lounge named Sir Bentley’s World of Sports.

1975: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rogers C.B. Morton will meet in Washington, D.C., with area labor and elected officials, including Warren Mayor Arthur Richards and Niles Mayor William Thorp, to discuss the economic and political implications of a French company taking control of Copperweld Steel.

Company-owned Sohio service stations in the Youngstown area drop the price of regular gasoline 3 cents per gallon, to 56.99 cents.

Gary E. Pollock, manager of the Bell Finance Co., is installed as the 58th president of the Downtown Kiwanis Club.

1965: A burglar takes $691 in a break-in at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ropar, 2415 Bears Den Road, while they were at a wedding reception for their daughter.

The North Carolina Tar Heels upset Ohio State, 14-3. It is the first home-opener loss for the Buckeyes since 1957.

South High Warriors defeat the Mooney Cardinals, 26-0, at South Stadium.

George Schuyler, noted columnist of The Pittsburgh Courier and a prominent conservative leader, addresses a public meeting at West Boulevard Elementary School in Boardman under the auspices of a new group called TACT, Truth about Civil Turmoil,.

1940: Arthur R. Gundry, Youngstown City Council president, is acting mayor after Mayor William Spagnola leaves on a vacation to the West Coast.

C.P. Graddick, United Airlines director of mail and express, tells the Civil Aeronautics Board that Youngstown is the only large metropolitan and industrial area in the entire country without direct airline service.

The temperature drops to a new low for the area as the thermometer registers 36 degrees.