YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2016. There are 119 days left in the year.

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On this date:

1189: England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1658: Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, dies in London; he is succeeded by his son, Richard.

1783: Representatives of the United States and Britain sign the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War.

1868: The Japanese city of Edo is renamed Tokyo.

1914: Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa becomes pope; he takes the name Benedict XV.

1923: The United States and Mexico resume diplomatic relations.

1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland,

1940: Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five record “Summit Ridge Drive” and “Special Delivery Stomp” for RCA Victor.

1951: The television soap opera “Search for Tomorrow” makes its debut on CBS.

1967: The original version of the television game show “What’s My Line?,” hosted by John Charles Daly, broadcasts its final episode after more than 17 years on CBS.

1989: A Cubana de Aviacion jetliner crashes after takeoff in Havana, killing all 126 aboard and 45 people on the ground.

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1991: The murder of four young men in a home at 3046 McGuffey Road is described by police as a massacre and brings Youngstown’s homicide toll for the year to 48, compared with 19 a year earlier. Dead are Eric Howard, Teddy Wynn, Alfonda Madison and William Dent.

Despite a holiday weekend spent at the bargaining table, about 170 Niles city school teachers go on strike for the first time since 1974.

1976: Leonard “Lips” Moceri, a former Warren gambler who was questioned in Los Angeles in 1952 regarding the murder of Bugsy Seigel, is missing and presumed dead after his girlfriend’s Lincoln Continental was found in Akron with a blood-splattered trunk.

Steve Moff, 18, of New Buffalo Road, and Mary A. Uhrain, 18, of Spitler Road, are crowned 4-H King and Queen of the Canfield Fair.

With most General Motors plants overloaded with orders, Robert D. Lund, GM vice president and Chevrolet general manager, says the company is looking for ways to use “unoccupied capacity” at the Lordstown plant, which is turning out Chevrolet Vega and Pontiac Astre subcompacts.

1966: Youngstown teachers are asking for a salary increase from $5,000 to $5,400 a year and for fully paid hospitalization.

David Nuth, 12, receives hip injuries when thrown from his pony at the Canfield Fair.

1941: United Airlines and Pennsylvania Central Airlines put 585 passengers, 1,660 pounds of mail and 3,489 pounds of express aboard airlines at the Youngstown Municipal Airport during August.

The Youngstown Fraternal Order of Police decides against placing an issue on the November ballot that would have placed the city police chief under Civil Service.

Three Youngstown Browns – Mike Sertich, Mike Surent and Bob Kracht – expect to be wearing khaki by the time the next baseball season rolls around. All anticipate being drafted soon.

Homer F. Barber, 62-year-old mayor of Beloit, is killed when his car collides with a horse in Portage County.