Today is Saturday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2003. There are 116 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2003. There are 116 days left in the year. On this date in 1901, President William McKinley is shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley, a Republican, dies eight days later; he is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1837, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-educational. In 1909, American explorer Robert Peary sends word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier. In 1941, Jews older than the age of 6 in German-occupied areas are ordered to wear yellow Stars of David. In 1948, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands has her coronation. In 1952, Canadian television broadcasting begins in Montreal. In 1966, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death by a deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town. In 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seize control of three jetliners, which are later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews are evacuated. In 1978, James Wickwire of Seattle and Louis Reichardt of San Francisco become the first Americans to reach the summit of Pakistan's K-2, the world's second-highest mountain. In 1997, Britain bades farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service at Westminster Abbey. Weeping masses gather in Calcutta, India, to pay homage to Mother Teresa, who had died the day before at age 87.
September 6, 1978: Cable television is coming to Canfield after city council approves a contract with Armstrong Utility. The basic fee of $7.15 per month will include Channel 9, a sports offering from New York.
During a six week period in the fall of 1977, 11 people were murdered and three vanished without a trace in the corridor that stretches from North Lima to Pittsburgh. The claim by a former Boardman man that he killed 14 people over a two year period has police re-examining the cases.
The fire that destroyed the Moore and Moore Lumber Co. in Youngstown was set by a professional, arson inspectors say.
September 6, 1963: Nathaniel C Lee, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People accuses Youngstown Mayor Harry Savasten of using a pocket veto to keep a proposed charter amendment from appearing on the November ballot. The issue would create a full-time department to deal with civil rights and human relations issues.
Youngstown City Council must cut nearly $1 million from the 1964 budget to balance the city's finances.
The U.S. Army will drastically curtail operations at the Lordstown Military Reservation, retaining only 47 of 229 civilian employees because most of the base is no longer needed.
September 6, 1953: First Lt. Kenneth L. Enoch, 28, of Osborne Ave., the Air Force navigator falsely accused by the Communists of germ warfare, is one of two Youngstown officers released on the final day of Operation Big Switch. The other is Capt. William A. McLain of Thalia Ave.
Romeo J. Robinson and William Huff head the driver to sell 1,500 memberships to the West Federal YMCA.
About 700 delegates are attending the annual convention of the Ukrainian Catholic Youth League of the U.S.A. at Hotel Pick-Ohio in Youngstown.
September 6, 1928: Police are investigating the mysterious death of an 11-year-old Salem boy. They suspect he may have choked on a cud of tobacco or may have ingested poison because he faced charges of stealing a bicycle.
Lengthening of the terms of Youngstown city councilmen from two years to four years and increasing their annual salary from $600 to $3,000 will appear on the November ballot. A suggestion that city wards be abolished was abandoned.