YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 30

Today is Sunday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2018. There are 92 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1777: The Continental Congress – forces to flee in the face of advancing British forces – moved to York, Pa.

1791: Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” premieres in Vienna, Austria.

1846: Boston dentist William Morton uses ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracts 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.”

1947: The World Series is broadcast on television for the first time; the New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3 in Game 1 (the Yankees would go on to win the Series four games to three).

1949: The Berlin Airlift comes to an end.

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 would enroll for classes the next day; Meredith’s presence sparks rioting that claims two lives.

1972: Roberto Clemente hits a double against Jon 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.

1981: Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice in history when she is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger.

2001: Under the threat of U.S. military strikes, Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers say explicitly for the first time that Osama bin Laden is still in the country and that they knew where his hideout is located.

2008: Congressional leaders and President George W. Bush rummage through ideas new and old, desperately seeking to change a dozen House members’ votes and pass a multibillion-dollar economic rescue plan.

2013: Pope Francis announces during a meeting with cardinals that he will canonize two of his most influential predecessors, John Paul II and John XXIII, the following spring.

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1993: Mahoning County commissioners hire Youngstown Finance Director Gary Kubic as the county’s first administrator at a salary of $65,000.

Robin Leach, host of TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” models a fake-fur coat during a fashion show at the Avalon Inn in Howland. He was in town for the Trumbull Town Hall lecture series.

A dexterous 14-year-old macaw allowed to fly loose in the basement of an Austintown home apparently turned on a soldering iron, which sparked a fire at the Edgehill Avenue home of James and Christine Sheridan.

1978: Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone, who arrived home from Rome the night before the death of Pope John Paul I was announced, said he was shocked by the news when he awoke. He was in a group of 40 bishops who met with the pope for more than an hour and found him “so alive, alert and speaking of the future.”

A thunderous explosion devastates the paint department of the Pittsburgh-Canfield Corp. at 550 W. Main St., Canfield, killing Paul Slifka, 48, of Austintown. Dean Varner, 31, of Leetonia is hospitalized.

Addressing the Republican state convention in Columbus, Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes pledges no new taxes under his next administration.

1968: A hold-up suspect is wounded and captured after he sped from a North Side service-station robbery and nearly ran down a policeman in Central Square before he was stopped by pursuing police near the Pennsylvania line.

Paul Ely, vice president-tubular operations of U.S. Steel Corp., announces that John E. Harrod will succeed Ralph Dickson as general superintendent of the Youngstown Works.

A one-man art show by Joel Fisher of Salem goes on display in the Robert Bowen Brown Gallery of Kenyon College’s Chalmers Library.

1943: Seven-year-old Lewis Davis, object of a three-day police, radio, newspaper and civilian search after he disappeared from his Warren home, is found dead in an abandoned ice box in the attic of the home. A neighbor following the advice of his wife to search every nook and cranny of the house found the body.

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