YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Sept. 17, the 261st day of 2016. There are 105 days left in the year.

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1787: The Constitution of the United States is completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1862: More than 3,600 men are killed in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland.

1937: The likeness of President Abraham Lincoln’s head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

1939: The Soviet Union invades Poland during World War II, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault.

1955: Tennessee Ernie Ford records “Sixteen Tons” by Merle Travis for Capitol Records in Hollywood.

1966: “Mission: Impossible” premieres on CBS.

1978: After meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sign a framework for a peace treaty.

1986: The Senate confirms the nomination of William H. Rehnquist to become the 16th chief justice of the United States.

1996: Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew under President Richard Nixon dies in Berlin, Md., at age 77.

2011: A demonstration calling itself Occupy Wall Street begins in New York, prompting similar protests around the U.S. and the world.

2015: General Motors agrees to pay $900 million to fend off criminal prosecution over the deadly ignition-switch scandal, striking a deal that brought criticism down on the Justice Department for not bringing charges against individual employees; GM also announced it will spend $575 million to settle the majority of the civil lawsuits filed over the scandal.

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1991: Lewis Ross is shot several times in the chest and back near McGuffey Road and Stewart Avenue, becoming Youngstown’s 50th homicide of the year.

A mediator’s recommendation of a 5 percent pay increase over two years gets mixed reviews from union leaders and faculty at Youngstown State University.

A 1965 Plymouth is pulled from Lake Newport in Mill Creek Park where it had apparently been for years. A $1 million, two-year dredging project involved draining the lake.

1976: The Howland Defense League is attempting to raise $10,000 to cover the legal costs in opposing Warren’s proposed annexation of the “Golden Triangle,” which includes the Packard Electric Division of General Motors.

The Royal Crown Cola Co. in Atlanta has acquired 51 percent of Arby’s, the Youngstown-headquartered fast-food chain, for $9 million.

A tractor-trailer loaded with bags of calcium chloride skids down “suicide hill” on Bridge Street in Struthers, taking out a guardrail, the front porch of a home and a utility pole. Driver Earl Lane of Grove City, Pa., was trapped in the cab for 20 minutes by a hot electrical line.

1966: Twenty-five federal agents swoop down on gamblers in Youngstown and Campbell, seizing $3,600 in cash and a number of betting slips in four simultaneous raids.

Youngstown police continue a crackdown on parking in the Youngstown University area, towing 22 cars and issuing several hundred tickets.

Kathy Fabick of Burghill is crowned queen of the third annual Hartford Apple Festival.

1941: All 12 mills of the McDonald plant of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. are closed as the result of a wildcat strike over disputed hiring practices for apprentices. The strike idled 3,000 employees.

Mrs. W. Brooks Reed is elected president of the Poland Garden Club.

Dr. Albert Sharpe, first- aid field representative of the American Red Cross, will conduct a two-week series of first-aid classes for volunteers in Youngstown.