YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2016. There are 93 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1789: The U.S. War Department establishes a regular army with the strength of several hundred men.

1829: London’s reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, goes on duty.

1907: The foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral.

1910: The National Urban League has its beginnings in New York with the formation of The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes.

1938: British, French, German and Italian leaders conclude the Munich Agreement, which is aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

1965: President Lyndon Johnson signs the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, creating the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.

1978: Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.

1982: Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claim the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)

2005: John G. Roberts Jr. is sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.

2015: President Barack Obama, hosting a U.N. gathering of world leaders, pledges all possible tools to defeat the Islamic State group.

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1991: Youngstown had 310 arsons in 1990, the most for a city of its size in the nation, according to the Youngstown Fire Department and the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report.

Some desperate dairy farmers in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania are talking about a milk strike, similar to one in 1966, to drive up milk prices.

A truck driver making a delivery at the Ross Industrial Park in Youngstown finds an envelope lying on the ground that turns out to be a $50 savings bond that was blown away when a tornado destroyed the Chestnut Ridge home of Sandra Deal in May 1985. Dallas Culp returned the bond, which looked good as new, to its owner.

1976: A strike by Youngstown safety forces enters its second day with police and firefighters demanding a 6 percent raise retroactive to the beginning of 1976 and 8 percent in 1977.

The average water bill for Canfield residents will increase by 50 percent as a result of a new regional waste treatment center.

Two contracts totaling almost $2.6 million are awarded to GF Business Equipment Inc. by the General Services Administration.

1966: All available city cruisers respond to Hillman and Regent streets after 170 high-school students surround two policemen and pelt their cruiser with rocks.

Teamsters Local 377 threatens a strike against two Youngstown dairies, Sealtest and Borden.

Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, will speak when the Youngstown Chapter receives its charter at the Hotel Ohio.

Mahoning County voter registration is at 145,000, about 10,000 less than the record for the 1964 presidential election.

1941: U.S. Rep. George H. Bender of Cleveland gives his unqualified endorsement and promises his active support for a Beaver-Mahoning canal.

Earle L. Johnson, state director of aeronautics, calls on Youngstown area pilots, mechanics and radio men to organize into home air- defense units.

The famous director Isham Jones, whose orchestra is playing in the Cascade Room of the Hotel Pick-Ohio, says he has lost five top musicians to the military draft, but he is not complaining.