YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2015. There are 93 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: The U.S. War Department establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1829: London’s reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, goes on duty.

1910: The National Urban League, which has its beginnings as The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is established in New York.

1943: General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.

1962: Canada joins the space age as it launches the Alouette 1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

1965: President Lyndon Johnson signs the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, creating the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts; during the signing ceremony, the president said the measure will create an American Film Institute.

1975: Baseball manager Casey Stengel dies in Glendale, Calif., at age 85.

1978: Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.

1982: Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claim the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (The case remains unsolved.)

1990: The Washington National Cathedral, begun in 1907, is formally completed with President George H.W. Bush overseeing the laying of the final stone atop the southwest pinnacle of the cathedral’s St. Paul Tower.

2005: John G. Roberts Jr. is sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.

2010: Anti-austerity protests erupt across Europe; Greek doctors and railway employees walk off the job, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man rams a cement truck into the Irish parliament to protest the country’s enormous bank bailouts.

2014: In a blistering speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Hamas and the Islamic State group are “branches of the same poisonous tree,” both bent on world domination through terror, just as the Nazis had done.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Special Counsel Robert Bennett recommends that the Senate Ethics Committee take no action against Sens. John Glenn, D-Ohio, and John McCain, R-Ariz., over their dealings with federal bank regulators on behalf of political contributor Charles Keating.

A majority of Ohio students tested above national norms on standardized achievement and ability tests given for the first time in all of the state’s 612 districts.

The Magnificent Meals Mobile offers free delivery from the McDonald’s restaurant at 162 North Road, Warren, which is known as the Most Magnificent McDonald’s.

1975: Two armed bandits hit the Hacienda Lounge at 3405 Mahoning Ave. and escape with a laundry bag stuffed with money from the cash register and purses and wallets of 10 customers.

Red-faced Youngstown police begin an investigation into the theft of a 1966 automobile minutes after it was towed into the police garage from the scene of a North Fruit Street burglary, where it was apparently going to be used as a getaway car.

Three people were injured, two of whom were arrested, during a fight with police at South High School Stadium after the Woodrow Wilson-East football game.

1965: Trumbull County’s 96 elderly wards are transferred from the old county home on Mahoning Avenue to the former Air Force radar base south of Brookfield on Route 7. Turning the base into a nursing home has been a three-year project.

Two Columbiana members of Boy Scout Troop 18, Thomas Kaylor and William F. Newell, receive the Eagle Scout Award at a Court of Honor in Fire-stone Park.

Youngstown public schools are committed to the present driver- training program at least through the summer of 1966, school administrators tell the Safety Council of Greater Youngstown, insurance men, car dealers and merchants.

1940: An $8 million plant for manufacturing and testing torpedoes for submarines may be built by the U.S. Navy on Pymatuning Reservoir in western Pennsylvania. .

After visiting the laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va., U.S. Rep,. Michael J. Kirwan, D-Youngstown, says “Uncle Sam” has been too frugal with expenditures for aeronautical research.

Reservations for the 1940-41 concert series by the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra are nearing the 2,000 mark, campaign Director Charles Atkinson announces. That total is an all-time high.