YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2015. There are 94 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1066: William the Conqueror invades England to claim the English throne.

1542: Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives at present-day San Diego.

1787: The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.

1850: Flogging is abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.

1914: The First Battle of the Aisne during World War I ends inconclusively.

1928: Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin, the first effective antibiotic.

1939: During World War II, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a treaty calling for the partitioning of Poland, which the two countries had invaded.

1945: The motion picture drama “Mildred Pierce,” starring Joan Crawford, opens in New York.

1958: Voters in the African country of Guinea overwhelmingly favor independence from France.

1967: Walter E. Washington is sworn in as the first mayor-commissioner of the District of Columbia (he’d been appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson).

1974: First lady Betty Ford undergoes a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast.

1989: Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos dies in exile in Hawaii at age 72.

1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat sign an accord at the White House ending Israel’s military occupation of West Bank cities and laying the foundation for a Palestinian state.

2005: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws. (DeLay was convicted in 2010, but the conviction ultimately was overturned.)

2010: The youngest son of North Korean President Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, is selected for his first leadership post in the ruling Workers Party, putting him well on the path to succeed his father. Movie director Arthur Penn (“Bonnie and Clyde”) dies in New York a day after turning 88.

2014: In an interview that airs on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” President Barack Obama acknowledges that U.S. intelligence agencies had underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight.

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1990: General Electric Co. and General Motors Corp. agree to pay to stop hazardous wastes produced at their operations and dumped at an Ellsworth Township landfill from leaking into a tributary of the Meander Creek Reservoir.

Two United Auto Workers locals representing about 10,000 employees at the Lordstown General Motors complex overwhelmingly approve a three-year national contract.

Local people and students from Franciscan University of Steubenville form a moving line outside the Mahoning Women’s Center to protest abortion and to dissuade women from going into the building.

1975: Trumbull County commissioners say they would welcome implementation of a recommendation by the Governor’s Council on Cost Control that the administration of county welfare departments be totally assumed by the state.

Additional state money the Youngstown City School District would get through the new equal- yield formula would be cut by $312,000 annually if the 6.7-mill renewal levy is not approved in November.

“Ohiocon,” the largest comic book and comic-strip convention in the Midwest, will take place Oct. 10-12 at Youngstown State University, sponsored by the Youngstown Comic Art Association.

1965: Gov. James A. Rhodes names Atty. Elwyn V. Jenkins to the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to succeed his father, Judge David G. Jenkins, who is resigning.

Part-time registered nurses of the Youngstown Hospital Association say that unless they receive an increase in their average pay of $2 to $2.15 an hour, they will reduce their own hours, which could hamper hospital operations.

Stambaugh-Thompson has an “in-the-box sale” of Huffy bicycles, 24- or 26-inch models, $29.87.

1940: The Mahoning County Board of Elections will remain open every night for a week to accommodate throngs seeking to make themselves eligible to vote before the registration deadline of Oct. 7.

Michael J. Lyden, president of the Ohio Federation of Labor, and Youngstown Detective W.J. “Chick” Harrison share twin grandsons, born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harrison. They are the first grandchildren in each family.

Youngstown College, winner over Geneva College and all even at 6-6 with Waynesburg, heads to Athens to take on the Ohio University Bobcats.