YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 27

Today is Thursday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2018. There are 95 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1825: The first locomotive to haul a passenger train is operated by George Stephenson in England.

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.

1917: French sculptor and painter Edgar Degas dies in Paris at age 83.

1939: Warsaw, Poland, surrenders after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.

1942: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform together for the last time, at the Central Theater in Passaic, N.J., before Miller’s entry into the Army.

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

1979: Congress gives final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.

1991: The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocks, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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1993: Arrests of prostitutes at Austintown truck stops are increasing as police try to intervene before truck-hopping returns to 1980s levels. In a month, police have made 16 prostitution arrests, compared with 11 in all of 1992.

General Motors and ASC Inc. are discussing moving the work of turning Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cavaliers and Pontiac Sunbirds into convertibles from ASC’s North Jackson facility to Michigan.

Cleveland Browns coach Bill Belichick benches quarterback Bernie Kosar at halftime of a 23-10 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. Kosar remained quiet, but his replacement, Vinny Testaverde, said Kosar didn’t deserve to be pulled.

1978: The sale of the old Mahoning County TB Sanatorium comes as a shock to the Nursing Division of the Mahoning County Health Department, which is housed at the sanatorium and conducts five health clinics there.

The mayors of Campbell, Struthers and Lowellville boycott a meeting between Mahoning Valley and Carter administration officials at the White House because George Wilson, CASTLO project administrator, was purposely excluded.

The Rev. and Mrs. Paul Moore are honored by Highway Tabernacle Assembly of God for their 50 years of service as missionaries, including 32 years in West Africa. The congregation gives them a two-week tour of the Holy Land.

1968: Ralph Dickson, general superintendent of U.S. Steel Corp.’s Youngstown Works since 1964, is retiring after 41 years with the company. He is being honored at a party at Youngstown Country Club.

Daniel Whalen, operator of Hollywood Auto Supply Co., says a gunman escaped with cash from his pockets and the cash register after pulling a Lugar-type pistol and announcing, “This is a stick-up.”

The Boardman Zoning Commission disapproves a zone change request to allow a $2.5 million apartment complex planned by the Edward J. DeBartolo Co.

1943: First Lt. Harry Powell, Warren Avenue, a jungle trooper on active duty in the Southwest Pacific, is wounded in the battle of Munda. He is recuperating at a base hospital on Guadalcanal.

Part of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus makes an unscheduled “appearance” in Girard at a loss of $3,000. A boxcar containing 10 bolts of canvas tents, trapeze and other equipment, caught fire in Girard.