Friday, September 30, 2016
Today is Friday, Sept. 30, the 274th day of 2016. There are 92 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1846: Boston dentist William Morton uses ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
1938: After co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says, “I believe it is peace for our time.”
1939: The first college football game to be televised is shown on experimental station W2XBS in New York as Fordham University defeats Waynesburg College, 34-7.
1949: The Berlin Airlift ends.
1955: Actor James Dean, 24, is killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.
1962: James Meredith, a black student, is escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he enrolls for classes the next day; Meredith’s presence sparks rioting that would claim two lives.
1972: Roberto Clemente hits a double against John Matlack of the New York Mets during Pittsburgh’s 5-0 victory at Three Rivers Stadium; the hit is the 3,000th and last for the Pirates’ star.
2006: Five people are killed when an overpass near Montreal collapses.
2015:Just hours before a midnight deadline, a bitterly divided Congress approves, and President Barack Obama signs, a stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government open.
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1991: U.S. Rep. Dennis Eckart, a Democrat representing Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, announces that he will not seek re-election.
David Johnson, president of Summitville Tile and chairman of the Columbiana County Republican Party, says his family-owned company is able to compete internationally and ships more tile to Japan than it does to Ohio.
Four employees are treated for smoke-related injuries after an electrical short in a clothes dryer sparked a fire at Glenn View Manor Nursing Home in Mineral Ridge. About 50 residents of the east wing were moved temporarily to other rooms. None of the 198 residents was injured.
1976: Four Youngstown area men are indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland for the June 18, 1975, robbery of the Damascus branch of First National Bank of Salem.
Because of the strike by Youngstown safety forces, the football game between Cardinal Mooney and Howland is moved from the South High Stadium to Campbell Memorial Stadium.
1966: General Motors Fisher Body and Chevrolet assembly plants at Lordstown are booming with orders and are turning out 60 full-size Chevrolets an hour to meet demand.
Bold, fast-working burglars escape with $60,000 worth of quality women’s sportswear from the new Country Limited store in the well-lighted Fifth Street Plaza in Struthers.
Facing a cafeteria deficit of $3,217, Salem Schools officials discuss increasing the 35-cent price of student lunches.
1941: Hearings on the proposed canal from Beaver, Pa., to Struthers continue in Washington. The Army Corps of Engineers gives the canal its support.
Walter Greenwood, 94, one of the last three known local veterans of the Civil War, dies at his home.
East Palestine City Council rejects by a 4-3 vote a special committee’s recommendation of higher salaries for elected officials. The mayor’s salary would have gone from $900 to $1,200 a year.
State liquor stores and cosmetic counters report Christmas-like sales as consumers stock up before a new federal tax goes into effect.