YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 28

Today is Friday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2018. There are 94 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1542: Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives at present-day San Diego.

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.

1928: Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin, the first effective antibiotic.

1989: Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos dies in exile in Hawaii at age 72.

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.

2017: The Trump administration says its relief efforts in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria are succeeding, though people on the island say help has been scarce and disorganized.

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1993: The Rev. Lonnie Simon of New Bethel Baptist Church says children are being used as pawns in the ongoing strike by Youngstown schoolteachers.

Wal-Mart officially announces that its third store in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys will be built in Bazetta Township on Elm Road south of the Route 5 bypass.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro informs state officials that the city would welcome construction of a “Supermax” prison being considered for Northeast Ohio.

1978: Dr. John M. McCann, 74, former chairman of the Youngstown State University board of trustee and well-known practitioner for 50 years, dies of injuries suffered in a two-car crash at McCollum Road and Belle Vista.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development approves Youngstown’s application for $5.4 million in federal money for housing projects and capital improvements.

Ohio is awarded a federal contract of $626,000 under which the state’s medical schools will change their teaching procedures to provide rural enclaves and city slums with better health care.

1968: Hundreds of jeering, screaming youth, apparently upset when North upsets South, 24-18, at South Stadium go on a rock- and bottle-throwing rampage in the Oak Hill Avenue area, breaking at least 200 windows and damaging 17 cars. One adult and four youths are arrested.

Off-duty policeman John Scavina is beaten severely when he was attacked by three assailants after breaking up a fight in the parking lot of the Hollywood Tavern on East Indianola Avenue.

A second-degree murder charge is dismissed in Youngstown Municipal Court against William McGrady because the exact cause of his wife’s death could not by established. Dr. David Belinky ruled the death due to strangulation, but Dr. William Johnson, deputy coroner, testified that Mosell McGrady could have died from anemia or a combination of causes.

1943: Special Judge Adrian Newcomb fines Phillip Poghen and Frank DeRose $300 and sentences them to three months in jail on gambling charges. They are first bookies to come to trial as the result of a state investigation into Mahoning County rackets.

Assurance that an additional 500 to 700 tons of coal will be sent to Youngstown daily to add to domestic fuel supplies and avert a serious fuel shortage is given to Congressman Michael Kirwan by Abe Fortas, undersecretary of the Interior.

With four days to go, the Mahoning County Third War Loan drive is $1.9 million short of its $16 million goal.