YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 27, the 271st day of 2016. There are 95 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1540: Pope Paul III issues a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as a religious order.

1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurs when the steamship SS Arctic sinks off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survive.

1928: The United States says it is recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.

1962: “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson’s study on the effects of pesticides on the environment, is published in book form by Houghton Mifflin.

1964: The government publicly releases the report of the Warren Commission, which concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

1979: Congress approves forming the U.S. Department of Education.

2006: President George W. Bush hosts a peacemaking dinner at the White House for the bickering leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

2011: Opening statements in the Los Angeles trial of Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, take place as prosecutors accuse Murray of killing the superstar through irresponsible use of the anesthetic propofol, and the defense maintaining Jackson had caused his own death. (Murray later was convicted of felony involuntary manslaughter.)

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1991: Nose-diving enrollment at Choffin Career Center is sparking renewed debate about possibly closing the school in Youngstown.

A reapportionment plan proposed by the Ohio Republican Party would put state Reps. Robert F. Hagan of Youngstown and Joseph J. Vukovich III of Poland in the same Ohio House district.

Hundreds of dead fish lie on the banks and in shallow water of Lake Newport, which is being drained in Mill Creek Park so that it can be dredged.

1976: Some 1,000 people attend a Mass at St. Columba Cathedral marking completion of a $25 million expansion program at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Members of seven Youngstown city employee unions are angry after City Council backs Mayor Jack C. Hunter’s offer of across-the-board raises of $720 per person to be paid over five quarters.

Richard F. Armitage, 65, of Warren, retired manager of the Republic Steel Corp.’s Mahoning Valley district, dies while visiting in Colorado.

1966: Austintown rezones 51 acres between Victoria and Turner Roads for use as an industrial park. Township officials will describe the prospective tenant only as a “very unobjectionable “ industry “displaced from Youngstown.”

The Mahoning Valley Rose Society sponsors its fifth annual show in the McKelvey Hall of Music Auditorium.

Chevrolet’s new, sporty Camaro is a hit at Packard Electric’s annual new-car preview in Warren.

1941: Youngstown policemen on a stakeout for auto-accessory thieves shoot and kill Paul Lawson, 21, of West Marion Avenue after he attempted to flee from a Wick Avenue car lot. Two other men were captured.

The 1942 convention of the Trumbull Baptist Association will take place at Orangeville, some 500 delegates at this year’s session decide in a vote at Himrod Avenue Baptist Church.

Youngstown College upsets Ohio University, 14-0.