Today is Monday, Sept. 8, the 252nd day of 2008. There are 114 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, Sept. 8, the 252nd day of 2008. There are 114 days left in the year. On this date in 1900, Galveston, Texas, is struck by a hurricane that killed an estimated 8,000 people.

In 1565, a Spanish expedition establishes the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla. In 1930, the comic strip “Blondie,” created by Chic Young, is first published. In 1934, 134 people lose their lives in a fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast. In 1941, the 900-day Siege of Leningrad by German forces begins during World War II. In 1951, a peace treaty with Japan is signed by 49 nations in San Francisco. In 1974, President Ford grants an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon. In 1975, Boston’s public schools begin court-ordered citywide busing to achieve racial desegregation amid scattered incidents of violence. In 1994, a USAir Boeing 737 crashes into a ravine as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people on board.

September 8, 1983: Creditors of the Commuter Aircraft, saying they have given the company ample time to find a project for its $10 million plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, will begin foreclosure proceedings within two weeks.

The Youngstown Law Department gives city officials the legal nod to get tough on city employees who live outside Youngstown in violation of the city’s residency requirement.

Trumbull County commissioners drop plans for a piggyback sales tax and announce a virtual shutdown of county services by Oct. 1.

September 8, 1968: Enrollment in Youngstown public schools and parochial schools in the county is down, while attendance in the 12 Mahoning County school districts is up. City school enrollment is 25,846; parochial enrollment in the city and county, 16,636, and county public schools, 29,639.

Pfc. Fred P. Rugh Jr., 18, of 179 E. Judson Ave., is killed in action while fighting with the 9th Infantry Division in the Mekong Delta.

September 8, 1958: Whirlwind raids by a squad of seven state liquor agents result in arrests at six social clubs in Niles on charges of Sunday sales of liquor.

Dan Lyden Jr., 6, of 331 Crandall Ave., narrowly escapes injury while playing in the driveway of his house when a woman motorist loses control of her car and drives over the lawn, striking the front stoop.

Three-year-old Nathaniel Anderson of Poland Avenue, dies in South Side Hospital of bulbar polio. He had not been inoculated with the Salk vaccine.

September 8, 1933: Youngstown Police Chief Leroy Goodwin give his beat patrolman a list of 161 joints on their beats that they should clean up. The list was provided by Mayor Mark Moore and contains 81 suspected speakeasies, 21 gambling houses, 18 places of prostitution and eight bookie offices.

Dick Miller, an 8-year-old boy who lives at 1208 Himrod Ave., Youngstown, meets President Roosevelt during a tour of the White House and is given a quarter by the president.

Alexander Milne of 244 North Heights Ave., one of the nation’s leading metallurgists on the Republic Steel Corp. staff, dies of acute colitis in North Side Hospital at the age of 46. His wife died suddenly in July, and his death leaves three children orphaned.

The opening of public schools in Youngstown depends on developments in the infantile paralysis epidemic over the next few days, says Dr. C.H. Beight, health commissioner. No new cases of the disease have been reported in the last day.