Today is Monday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2003. There are 114 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2003. There are 114 days left in the year. On this date in 1921, Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., is crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.
In 1664, the Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to the British, who rename it New York. In 1900, Galveston, Texas, is struck by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people. In 1935, Sen. Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, is shot; he dies two days later. In 1951, a peace treaty with Japan is signed by 48 other nations in San Francisco. In 1952, the Ernest Hemingway novel "The Old Man and the Sea" is first published. In 1971, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C., with a performance of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass." In 1974, President Ford grants an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon. In 1981, civil rights activist Roy Wilkins, former head of the NAACP, dies in New York at age 80. In 1992, in a case that prompts federal laws against carjacking, Pam Basu of Savage, Md., is dragged to her death after being forced from her car. In 1994, a US Air Boeing 737 crashes into a ravine as it is approaching Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people on board.
September 8, 1978: Sharon City Council will ask the Mercer County Court of common Pleas for a rehearing on the city's 1978 tax case. The city, faced with rebating $1.5 million in illegally collected taxes, is also considering layoffs.
The Ohio General Assembly's Nursing Home commission, in Youngstown to conduct public hearings, conducts unannounced visits to four area nursing homes. Commission members were tight-lipped after the visits. "We've seen worse," was the most anyone would say.
September 8, 1963: A bid to incorporate Howland Township moves ahead, in an apparent effort to stymie the proposed annexation of 600 acres of township land to Warren. If incorporated, Howland would become a village of about 13,000 residents.
Many segments of the U.S. economy, including steel, seem to be headed for a higher level for the remainder of 1963, heralding better times just ahead for the Youngstown district.
September 8, 1953: Youngstown City Council authorizes the Board of Control to cooperate with the Erie Railroad Co. in selling three lots to the G.M. McKelvey Co., which intends to build a pigeonhole parking garage on the North side of Commerce St.
The first rush of students to parochial schools in Youngstown and to some county schools has many classrooms overflowing, especially in primary grades, where enrollment exceeded expectations. In Boarmdan, 75 students who had not been previouslyt registered showed up.
September 8, 1928: Youngstown takes back its place as one of the country's important cities on air mail, passenger and express routes with a celebration in which more than 20 airplanes a dirigible and more than 5,000 persons participate at Lansdowne Field.
The Mahoning County WCTU announces its support for Republican Herbert Hoover for president during the Temperance Union's 40th annual convention, held at the third Reformed Church in Brownlee Woods.
Mahoning Sheriff Peter Corll and his deputies raid the Moonlight Tavern at Stop 21, Sharon Line, arresting seven men and confiscating 200 bottles of beer and 20 gallons of wine.