YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2015. There are 92 days left in the year.

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1399: England’s King Richard II is deposed by Parliament; he is succeeded by his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, who is crowned as King Henry IV.

1777: The Continental Congress – forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces – moves to York, Pa.

1791: Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” premieres in Vienna, Austria.

1846: Boston dentist William Morton uses ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracts an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.

1938: After co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says, “I believe it is peace for our time.”

1939: The first college football game to be televised is shown on experimental station W2XBS in New York as Fordham University defeats Waynesburg College, 34-7.

1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

1955: Actor James Dean, 24, is killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.

1962: James Meredith, a black student, is escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he enrolls for classes the next day; Meredith’s presence sparks rioting that claims two lives.

1997: France’s Roman Catholic Church apologizes for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.

2010: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls Guatemalan leaders to apologize for 1940s U.S.-led experiments that infected occupants of a Guatemala mental hospital with syphilis, apparently to test the effectiveness of penicillin against some sexually transmitted diseases.

2014: Under withering criticism from Congress, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson admits failures in her agency’s critical mission of protecting the president but repeatedly sidesteps key questions about how a knife-carrying intruder penetrated ring after ring of security before finally being tackled deep inside the White House.

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1990: Niles Schools Superintendent John Bruno says the school district is not obliged to provide bus transportation from a private day care to public schools for 10 children who are dropped off at the day care by their parents an hour before the school day begins.

Vindicator Sports Editor Chuck Perazich calls for an end to the bashing of Cleveland Browns Quarterback Bernie Kosar. Perazich chronicles what Kosar has done for Northeast Ohio, including leading the Browns to five straight playoffs.

Police Officer Delphine Baldwin, one of the first five women on the Youngstown Police Department, says that after 13 years on the department, she still is fighting her three pet peeves, racism, sexism and favoritism.

1975: Ellen Neff, assistant director of career planning and placement at Youngstown State University, a surplus of elementary teachers is making it difficult for education graduates to find jobs in their fields.

Municipal Judge Leo P. Morley issues an order prohibiting the Youngstown Board of Education from conducting its own investigation into a row after a football game at South Stadium that resulted in three men being charged with resisting arrest. One those men has filed an assault charge against a city patrolman.

Two Broncos players from the Youngstown area steal the limelight in a Monday Night Football game that saw Denver beat Green Bay, 23-13. Linebacker Jim O’Malley of Chaney and Notre Dame picked off a pass and dashed to the 12, setting up Denver’s first touchdown. Randy Gradishar, Ohio State All-American from Champion, intercepted a pass and ran 44 yards for a goal that put the game out of Green Bay’s reach.

1965: The Youngstown Diocese’s allotment of 75 tickets to Yankee Stadium for Pope Paul VI’s Mass at Yankee Stadium on Oct. 4 have been claimed on a first-come, first-served basis. Msgr. Benedict C. Franzetta, chancellor, regrets being unable to fill all the requests received.

Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt dismisses a $225,000 libel suit filed by Youngstown University student council member Paul Banocci against the university and the student-run newspaper, The Jambar.

Judge Clifford M. Woodside, who sat on the Probate Court bench for 39 years and for whom Woodside Receiving Hospital is named, dies of a heart attack after being stricken at home. He was 74.

Gov. James A. Rhodes proposes a Zane Grey Museum to make it a popular national tourist attraction for the state. Rhodes feels Grey’s writing is third in importance in literature behind the Bible and Youngstown native William McGuffey’s Readers.

1940: Common Pleas Judge George H. Gessner and Probate Judge Clifford M. Woodside will be joined by a third member named by Gov. John W. Bricker to act as the Mahoning County Recommending Committee, which will screen members for 11 draft boards that will operate in the county.

With only one day to go, an estimated 25,000 to 35,000 Mahoning County motorists have failed to buy new driver’s licenses. All but a few of the county’s 32 deputy registrars report business is lagging behind 1939.

Sally Winters Morillas, 26, of North Truesdale Avenue, an active Communist leader in Youngstown, is arrested and taken to Warren to face a secret indictment alleging misrepresentation in circulating nominating petitions.