YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Sept. 19, the 263rd day of 2016. There are 103 days left in the year.

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1796: President George Washington’s farewell address is published. In it, America’s first chief executive advised, “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”

1881: The 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, dies 21/2 months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur becomes president.

1915: Vaudeville performer W.C. Fields makes his movie debut as “Pool Sharks,” a one-reel silent comedy, is released.

1934: Bruno Hauptmann is arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

1970: The situation comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” debuts on CBS-TV.

1982: The smiley emoticon is invented by Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman, who suggested punctuating humorously intended computer messages with a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal “smiley face.” :-)

2006: President George W. Bush, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, tries to quell anti-Americanism in the Middle East by assuring Muslims he is not waging war against Islam.

2011: In a White House address, a combative President Barack Obama demands that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 trillion.

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1991: The Youngstown Urban League hopes to build a coalition of community leaders and agencies to combat the alarming rise in homicides in Youngstown. The city has had 50 murders so far in 1991.

Ellwood City Forge Co. is working on a plan to reopen the defunct Valley-Vulcan Mold Co. plant in Hubbard.

An internal affairs investigation is launched in Niles to determine whether city police officers ran the license plates of replacement workers during a teachers strike at city schools, which would violate state and federal laws. An Ohio Education Association consultant told a reporter police officers were sympathetic “and ran the license plate numbers of the scabs.”

1976: Exterminators are called to the offices of the Trumbull County Welfare Office after 50 workers walk of the job because the building is infested with pigeon lice.

Andrew M. Burrell, 15, working as part of a crew on his father’s tree-trimming company, loses his balance while cutting a tree at 1809 Canavan Ave. in Boardman and is electrocuted after coming in contact with a power line.

Some 15,000 books and 800 dolls are waiting for buyers at Goodwill Industry’s sixth annual book and doll sale at the Rehabilitation Center on Belmont Avenue.

1966: Teenagers in Mahoning County collect $12,687 in a house-to-house canvass for St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Research Center.

Harry Hull lays the cornerstone for an addition to Hubbard First Methodist Church.

The drought continues: Since May the area has had only 11.5 inches of rainfall.

Dr. Albert Pugsley, president of Youngstown University, expresses his support for the city’s crackdown on illegal parking in the university area.

1941: Thousands are stunned by a display of the Northern Lights over the Mahoning Valley. The brilliant lights spread their fanlike streamers of silver, green, yellow, pink and blue across the horizon.

Three hundred members of the Lawrence County Farm Bureau mark the organization’s 25th anniversary with a dinner.

A capacity crowd of 10,000 at Rayen Stadium sees Youngstown College and Geneva College battle to a 0-0 tie in the Penguins’ opening game of their fourth season.