Today is Monday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2005. There are 110 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Monday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2005. 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 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.
September 12, 1980: Western Reserve Transit Authority drivers walk off in a wildcat strike, idling buses that provide both public transportation and student transportation for Youngstown city schools.
New Castle will lay off 15 regular employees and 30 CETA employees in two weeks because of an estimated shortfall of $400,000.
Dr. Steve Permuth, associate professor of educational administration at Bradley University, gives a talk on how to avoid civil lawsuits through greater classroom vigilance to teachers in Diocese of Youngstown schools.
September 12, 1965: The death toll from Hurricane Betsy exceeds 50 and may exceed 200 in New Orleans and damage may reach $1 billion.
Mahoning County commissioners are planning to name a seven-man county airport authority as the first concrete move toward establishing another area airport, probably south of Youngstown.
Christina Staaf of Gottensberg, Sweden, an 18-year-old senior who will attend Boardman High School, is welcomed to the area by the Boardman Rotary Club, sponsor of the student exchange program.
Dr. Charles A. Granito is elected president of the Wolves Club, Den. 6, at a banquet at Cicero's Restaurant.
September 12, 1955: Twenty-eight plants of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. are hit by an I.U.E. strike. Pickets from Pittsburgh set up around the Westinghouse Transformer Division plant in Sharon, where 4,000 workers refuse to cross the lines, though that plant was not included in the strike.
Fire Capt. James Prosser, 42, is overcome by smoke and Fireman John Berndt, 29, is injured as they battle a $500 fire in the basement of St. Patrick Church on Oak Hill Ave.
Chuck Tanner of New Castle, Pa., hits a homer to help the Milwaukee Braves in a 13-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
September 12, 1930: Buying, spurred on by rumors of an impending merger of Newton Steel Co. and Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., sends common shares of Newton up 12 points over night.
The former executive offices of the Central Savings & amp; Loan Association in Youngstown's Central Tower are being remodeled for the General Motors Acceptance Corp., which will take over the entire second floor of the building.
Speaking at a meeting of the board of governors of the Ohio Council of Republican Women, Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren stresses the need for registering voters before the fall.