YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Sept. 23, the 267th day of 2016. There are 99 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1780: British spy John Andre is captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point to the British.

1806: The Lewis and Clark expedition returns to St. Louis more than two years after setting out for the Pacific Northwest.

1846: Neptune is identified as a planet by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

1939: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, dies in London at age 83.

1955: A jury in Sumner, Miss., acquits two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of murdering black teenager Emmett Till. (The two men later admitted the crime in an interview with Look magazine.)

1957: Nine black students who entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas are forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.

1962: “The Jetsons,” an animated cartoon series about a space-age family, premieres as the ABC television network’s first program in color.

1987: Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., withdraws from the Democratic presidential race after questions about his use of borrowed quotations and the portrayal of his academic record.

2006: Barry Bonds hits his 734th career home run in the Giants’ 10-8 loss to the Brewers, breaking Hank Aaron’s NL record.

2015: In the first canonization on U.S. soil, Pope Francis elevates to sainthood Junipero Serra, an 18th-century missionary who brought Catholicism to the American West Coast.

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1991: Youngstown-based Phar-Mor Inc. is venturing into the Hispanic market by advertising on the Spanish-language network Univision.

Niles Mayor Joseph Parise asks the FBI to investigate allegations that city police officers sympathetic to striking schoolteachers used a law-enforcement computer network to assist teachers in identifying replacement workers hired by the school district during the strike.

Another 17-year-old boy escapes from the Youth Development Center in New Castle, Pa., even as state legislators are meeting to discuss lax security that has led to the escape of 293 boys from the facility over three years.

1976: Sharon City Council pays $9,400 to the Sharon Redevelopment Authority for a 1.8-acre parcel on Connelly Boulevard as the site of a proposed $2.2 million city hall.

Youngstown City Council passes an ordinance prohibiting new taverns, theaters and adult bookstores in the Uptown area within 500 feet of an existing establishment.

At the request of Austintown Township trustees E. Ray Davis, Ben A. DiRienzo and George Beelen, Mahoning County commissioners enact an 11 p.m. curfew for juveniles in the township.

1966: Youngstown University asks the common pleas court for approval to transfer certain funds of Youngstown University to the Youngstown Educational Foundation.

Trustees of the Youngstown Hospital Association vote to recognize the Ohio State Nurses Association as the representative of 400 registered nurses at North and South Side hospitals.

1941: Dr. John F.C. Soller, dean of Mahoning County clergy who served St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for 6 years, dies in North Side Hospital less than 24 hours after resigning as pastor. He was 77.

About 475 children, members of 150 families in the North Lima area, are quarantined for two weeks after three children are diagnosed with polio.

A race car careens into the infield at Sharon Speedway near Hartford, killing spectator Lyle F. Myers, 18, of Warren and injuring two others. Six years before, Don Elder, a Warren racer, was killed at the track.