YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 28

Today is Thursday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2017. There are 94 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1787: The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.

1892: The first nighttime football game takes place in Mansfield, Pa., as teams from Mansfield State Normal and Wyoming Seminary play under electric lights to a scoreless tie.

1976: Muhammad Ali keeps his world heavyweight boxing championship with a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at New York’s Yankee Stadium.

1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat sign an accord at the White House ending Israel’s military occupation of West Bank cities and laying the foundation for a Palestinian state.

2016: In a resounding rebuke, Democrats join Republicans to hand Barack Obama the first veto override of his presidency, voting overwhelmingly to allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for its purported backing of the attackers.

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1992: The Youngstown City School District is Ohio’s sixth most educationally efficient when socio-economic factors are considered, an Ohio University study shows.

About 100 Columbiana High School students march outside the school in support of their principal, who faces revocation of his teaching and administrative certificates on the basis of his 1991 conviction on marijuana-related charges.

Youngtown Board of Education members were paid as much as $3,520 so far in 1992, based on 44 meetings at $80 a meeting, compared with the lowest-paid district in the area, Howland Local School District, where board members receive a flat $40 a month, regardless of how many meetings take place.

1977: The Youngstown Police Department night shift begins an hour late after officers leave the police station over a memorandum from police Chief Donald Baker that tells turn commanders to stop teaming black policemen in patrol cars as a way of reducing tensions between black and white officers.

In a special election, Campbell voters reject a 2.8-mill operating levy for Campbell schools.

The controversial site at 906 Robbins Ave. in Niles being considered by Residential Horizons Inc. as a group home for eight women with mental disabilities receives official approval from one state official.

1967: Govs. James A. Rhodes of Ohio and Raymond Shafer of Pennsylvania will snip a ribbon near Masury on Dec. 4 opening Interstate 80 from Girard to Emlenton, Pa.

Franz Bibo, conductor of the Youngstown Philharmonic Orchestra, is the special guest when the Youngstown Music Teachers Association has its annual fall dinner at The Mansion restaurant.

Stambaugh-Thompson’s automotive sale has 6- or 12-volt sealed beam headlights for 74 cents; 12-volt battery for $16.87 and Prestone antifreeze for $1.38 per gallon.

1942: Sen. Robert A. Taft, Ohio Republican, will introduce a bill to provide for appointment of a manpower czar who would allocate the nation’s men to combat, industrial or agricultural armies.

Hazel Southerland, the new principal of Scienceville Elementary School, is a native of the district and has done most of her teaching here.

Laura Clark of Youngstown will report to Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis for the Army Nurses Corps.