YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 29

Today is Saturday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2018. There are 93 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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

1910: The National Urban League has its beginnings in New York as The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes.

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

1987: Henry Ford II, longtime chairman of Ford Motor Co., dies in Detroit at age 70.

2001: President George W. Bush condemns Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers for harboring Osama bin Laden and his followers as the United States presses its military and diplomatic campaign against terror.

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

2008: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 777 points after the House defeats, 228-205, a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation’s financial system.

2017: Tom Price resigns as President Donald Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services amid investigations into his use of costly charter flights for official travel at taxpayer expense.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Columbiana County Treasurer Ardel Strabala meets with U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. because Strabala believes the FBI is unfairly focusing on his son, an investment adviser, in its investigation into the loss of $6 million in county funds.

As the Youngstown teachers’ strike enters its fourth week, Rayen football coach John Protopapa says some student athletes are in danger of losing scholarships because they aren’t able to play.

Mahoning Valley Sanitary District officials say a $60 million capital improvement program will assure 300,000 Youngstown and Niles water customers of pure water in the future.

1978: The Ecumenical Coalition, which is leading efforts to reopen closed portions of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works under an employee ownership plan, is encouraged by the Carter Administration’s pledge of $100 million to help the Mahoning Valley rebound from plant closings.

Pope John Paul I, who died after just 34 days as pontiff, told Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone a week before he died that the Mahoning Valley’s ecumenical effort to reopen steel mills is an example of the church facing the new challenges of the day.

Edward P. Lenney, 69, five-term mayor of Niles who served through most of the 1950s, dies of a heart attack. He was defeated for an unprecedented sixth term in 1961 by Republican Carmen DeChristofaro.

1968: Five South Side teenagers are spending the weekend in the Mahoning County Juvenile Research Center after they were spotted breaking soft-drink bottles in Oak Hill Avenue in front of St. Patrick Church while en route home from a Chaney-Rayen football game.

Jerry Gaffin, 15, a member of the Rayen Marching Band and a Vindicator carrier, receives his Eagle Scout award after earning 23 merit badges and winning a Stambaugh Achiever award four straight years.

Larry Whetson of Liberty is the grand prize winner in the annual Garden Horticulture Show and Holland Bulb Sale at the Fred Green Memorial Garden Center.

1943: Area schools, restaurants, churches and other places serving meals are warned by Jerome Santangelo, deputy collector of internal revenue, not to use colored oleo as a substitute for butter or they could face a special tax enacted to discourage the practice.

The FBI arrests two men and a woman in Youngstown, saying they headed one of the most extensive white slavery rings in Ohio.