Today is Thursday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2003. There are 111 days left in the year. On this

Today is Thursday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2003. There are 111 days left in the year. On this date in 2001, in the worst single act of terrorism committed on U.S. soil, two hijacked jetliners crash into New York's World Trade Center, causing the twin towers to fall and killing more than 2,800 people; a commandeered jetliner smashes into the Pentagon, claiming 189 lives; and a fourth plane with 44 people aboard crashes in western Pennsylvania as the passengers apparently fought with the hijackers.
In 1789, Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. In 1814, an American fleet scores a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada. In 1941, Charles A. Lindbergh sparks charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he says "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to draw the United States into World War II. In 1944, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference. In 1971, former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev dies at age 77. In 1972, the troubled Munich Summer Olympics end. In 1973, Chilean President Salvador Allende dies in a violent military coup.
September 11, 1978: Jack Warner, the fun-loving motion picture tycoon who lived part of his early life in Youngstown and got his start in show business there, dies in Hollywood at the age of 86. Warner and three of his brothers produced the first talking picture, "The Jazz Singer," and built a movie empire from that 1927 success.
Taylor Winfield Corp. offers to reopen the company's plant on Mahoning Ave. N.W. in Warren, but striking workers say they want to negotiate the terms of their return from a 15-month strike.
September 11, 1963: Youngstown and other cities served by Lake Central Airlines would be denied improvements in equipment and service if proposed cutbacks in federal subsidies are made, L.W. Hartman, Lake Central's president, tells the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce.
The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District is trying to pinpoint the source of pollution that has caused water in sections of Meander Creek to turn blue and killed fish and possibly a beaver. The source appears to be chemical and is somewhere south of Route 224.
September 11, 1953: A petition to place the question of incorporating Boardman Township on the Nov. 3 ballot is being prepared for submission to Boardman Township trustees. The Boardman Citizens' Committee has been studying the advantages and disadvantages of incorporation.
A three-quarter mile stretch of West 117th St. in Cleveland is rocked by underground explosions, overturning cars and hurling chunks of concrete and manhole covers through the air. One woman was killed and 58 persons required hospital treatment. More than 20 were admitted.
A Community Chest campaign goal of $785,000, or 6 percent more than was contributed in the 1952 drive, is set by the Community Corp. executive committee. The increase is the lowest in four years.
September 11, 1928: Four employees in the Youngstown Water Works Department, including Commissioner A.J. Aubrey, are dismissed by Mayor Joseph Heffernan. The mayor had taken exception to Aubrey approving vacation pay for two employees who were supposed to be paid by the hour.
The Federal Radio Commission announces changes for virtually all wave lengths used by commercial radio stations in the nation. Youngstown's station, WKBN, was approved for an increase in power from 50 watts to 500 watts and its wave length was changed from 1400 kilocycles to 1430 kilocycles.
Youngstown Councilman John Rothwell complains that the city ordinance requiring the wrapping of bread sold in the city is not being obeyed by bakers.