YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2016. There are 98 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: President George Washington signs a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.

1869: Thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.

1934: Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.)

1955: President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1976: Former hostage Patricia Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1996: The United States, represented by President Bill Clinton, and 70 other countries sign a treaty at the United Nations to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. (To date, 183 countries have signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty)

2006: In a combative taped interview on “Fox News Sunday,” former President Bill Clinton defends his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, and accuses host Chris Wallace of a “conservative hit job.”

2015: Pope Francis finishes his whirlwind visit to the nation’s capital, becoming the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress and calling on the lawmakers to help immigrants “and embrace the stranger in our midst.”

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1991: Undeterred by a Mahoning County judge’s ruling, Boardman Township trustees say they will continue their attempts to close an adult video store, which one describes as a cancer that must be cut out.

Girard City Council postpones consideration of a law to ban pornographic video machines in the city.

Liberty Township Police Chief Anthony Pilolli says he will retire at the end of the year due to chronic back problems and the politics associated with his job.

1976: A Fordham University economist is appointed leader of a task force that will study a proposal for a joint blast furnace that is envisioned as revitalizing the Mahoning Valley steel industry.

Willie F. Cubbins, 58, is released after treatment at St. Elizabeth Hospital for a gunshot wound of the leg suffered when a woman shot him for not hanging up quickly enough while using a pay phone at McGuffey Road and Cassius Avenue.

Continuing complaints about garbage collection in Youngstown lead to a suggestion that the city consider contracting out collection service.

Dr. Albert Pugsley tells the Youngstown Kiwanis Club that the loyalty of the Youngstown Community to its university was one of the deciding factors in his accepting the presidency of Youngstown University.

1941: Ohio Treasurer Don H. Ebright has $33 million in cash in the state vaults. Banks, already heavily loaded, won’t accept any part of it, Ebright says.

Tony Joy, the pro at Squaw Creek Country Club, and Morrie Gravaltt of Johnstown, Pa., tie for first place honors in the 36-hole Erie Open Golf tournament.

Valley Mould & Iron Co. of Hubbard and SWOC Lodge 1058 sign a contract providing for the prevailing wage scale and other conditions at similar plants.

Eighteen new school safety patrolmen, many of them students at Youngstown College, begin guarding crossings near city schools.