Today is Sunday, Sept. 12, the 256th day of 2004. There are 110 days left in the year. On this date in 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson sails into the river that now bears his name.

Today is Sunday, Sept. 12, the 256th day of 2004. There are 110 days left in the year. On this date in 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson sails into the river that now bears his name.
In 1880, author and journalist H.L. Mencken is born in Baltimore. In 1938, Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. In 1943, German paratroopers take Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held by the Italian government. In 1944, during World War II, U.S. Army troops enter Germany for the first time, near Trier. In 1953, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I. In 1954, "Lassie" makes its television debut on CBS. In 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addresses the issue of his Roman Catholicism, telling a Protestant group in Houston, "I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me." In 1974, Emperor Haile Selassie is deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years. In 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko dies while in police custody, triggering an international outcry. In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert slams into Jamaica, killing 45 people and causing damage estimated at up to $1 billion.
September 12, 1979: A delegation of Youngstown area Democrats heads for Steubenville, site of a town hall meeting by President Carter on energy issues.
Wearing a badge reading "Let us burn Ohio coal" in his lapel, President Carter speaks at Steubenville High School and appeals for people to support his energy program.
The acid rain that falls on the Eastern United States may figure in as many as 187,000 premature deaths each year, environmentalists tell a House of Representatives subcommittee. Coal-burning power plants in Ohio are a source of the sulfates that produce acid rain.
The 90 drivers of the Western Reserve Transit Authority walk off the job at 4 a.m., bringing a halt to bus service, including that provided to 10,000 Youngstown public and parochial school pupils.
The Western Auto Supply Co., operator of seven retail stores in the Mahoning Valley, announces that all have been closed permanently. About 50 people were employed at the stores.
September 12, 1964: William B. McKelvey, president of McKelvey's, announces that the department store will be open five nights a week beginning in October. McKelvey says the company has no plaza stores and believes in downtown Youngstown, but must meet the hours kept by plaza competitors. He notes that there is plenty of parking available downtown in the evening.
Alfred S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., becomes the first head of a major steel producer to predict that production in 1964 will exceed the record figure of 1956.
Ken Venturi and Arnold Palmer are rated co-favorites on the eve of the World Series of Golf at the Firestone course in Akron.
September 12, 1954: Lee Ann Meriwether, a tall, tanned beauty from California, is crowned Miss America in Atlantic City. Miss Ohio, Barbara Maxine Quinlan of Alliance, won the talent competition and was eighth runner-up in the pageant.
Youngstown College opens fall classes with 688 freshmen, an increase of 104 over a year earlier.
The ground water level in Mahoning County dropped more than a foot and a half in the past year, with the anticipated trend still downward, says Paul Kaser, hydrologist for the Division of Water of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
The 500 guests who attended four special screenings in Youngstown and Vienna of NBC-TV color telecasts over WFMJ-TV hail the broadcast as "breath-taking." These were the first successful telecasts of shows in color in Youngstown's history.
Two South Side Youngstown youths, Jack Davidson and Herbert Andrews, receive Boy Scouting's highest rank, the Eagle award, at foster Memorial Church.
September 12, 1929: Ted Rosequist, alleged by Coach Ralph Vince of John Carroll University, to have received an offer to play football at Ohio State University, announces that he will enroll at OSU because he believes he will be better prepared there for his career choice, which is that of a football coach.
A man identified as one of the bandits who held up a filling station and lunchroom at Seceders Corners is captured by Youngstown detectives after the detectives smashed their car into the bandit's automobile at Wick and Madison avenues.
James A. Campbell, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., is honored on his 75th birthday by 400 leaders of Youngstown's industrial, commercial, financial, political and spiritual life at the Hotel Ohio. A congratulatory telegram from President Herbert A. Hoover is read by A.E. Adams, who president.
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper says he will attend the dedication of Memorial High School Stadium in Campbell unless a trip to Ohio planned for early October by President Hoover interferes.
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