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Today is Thursday, Sept. 1, the 245th day of 2016. There are 121 days left in the year.

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1715: After a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France dies four days before his 77th birthday.

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr is found not guilty of treason.

1923: The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama are devastated by an earthquake that claimed some 140,000 lives.

1939: World War II begins as Nazi Germany invades Poland.

1941: The first municipally owned parking building in the United States opens in Welch, W.Va.

1945: Americans receive word of Japan’s formal surrender that ended World War II.

1969: A coup in Libya brings Moammar Gadhafi to power.

1976: U.S. Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, resigns in the wake of a scandal in which he admits having an affair with “secretary” Elizabeth Ray.

1995: A ribbon-cutting ceremony takes place for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. (The hall opened to the public the next day.)

2011: In a fiery broadcast from hiding, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi warns that loyalist tribes in his main strongholds are armed and preparing for battle.

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1991: Six employees are working in a small section of the Alcan Rolled Products Co. factory on Griswold Avenue in Warren cutting aluminum for use in automobile bodies, hoping to open a new huge market.

Canfield Fair board members are split on whether a manager should be hired to oversee the fair and to explore additional profit-producing uses for the fairgrounds.

Kelly Cramer, 19, is the first woman to join the Western Reserve Fire District’s 45-member firefighting force.

1976: The Ohio Lottery Commission fires five employees for failure to reveal prior criminal convictions and orders that all future applicants be fingerprinted before being hired.

Youngstown property taxes rose six-tenths of 1 percent in 1975, the lowest rate increase among Ohio’s 10 largest cities.

As a sign of increasing state prosperity, Mahoning County and its subdivisions will share a record $3.7 million in local government funds allocated by the state from various sources in 1977.

1966: The Canfield Fair opens its five-day run with expectations of crowds exceeding 308,000.

New Castle Councilman William Watkins loses in his second attempt to create a metropolitan sewer authority that would include the city and two adjacent townships.

The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce has its annual breakfast welcoming new teachers to the community. There were 260 new teachers at this year’s event at the Hotel Ohio.

1941: Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker hints that if Pennsylvania brings its turnpike to the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, Ohio might build its own super highway west from that point.

The Youngstown Browns beat the Akron Yankees 5-2 at Idora Park in the opening game of the season’s closing series.

Henry T. Jones of New Castle, Pa., is elected president of the National Gymanfa Ganu, succeeding Caradoc Ellis of Johnston, Pa.