Today is Friday, Sept. 12, the 256th day of 2008. There are 110 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, Sept. 12, the 256th day of 2008. There are 110 days left in the year. On this date in 1958, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cooper v. Aaron, unanimously rules that Arkansas officials who are resisting public school desegregation orders cannot disregard the high court’s rulings.

In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson sails up the river that now bears his name. In 1918, during World War I, U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launch a successful attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France. In 1938, Adolf Hitler demands the right of 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 1953, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.

September 12, 1983: A 54-year-old former Mahoning County reserve deputy is found guilt of raping a 12-year-old girl in his Austintown Township home and sentenced to 7 to 25 years in prison.

Two men are killed in a bizarre accident when a passing train crushed them while they were sleeping on the railroad tracks in Berlin Township. A third man escaped injury. There was no clear explanation of why the men, who had been out running their dogs, decided to sleep on the tracks.

ARA Aluminum Extrusion Inc. of Mineral Ridge receives a $30,000 contract for mail delivery and collection boxes that the postal service is installing in new subdivisions.

September 12, 1968: Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, the Democratic nominee for vice president, arrives in Youngstown for a whirlwind visit during which he was to make several addresses. A group of girls from St. Joseph School dressed in Polish costumes greet him at his first stop at the USW Hall in Campbell.

Binama Realty Co. announces that it will raze the auditorium part of the Warner Theater to make room for a parking lot. Lobby and stores facing federal street will be preserved and the lobby will converted into commercial space.

Eighty of an original 123 candidates for jobs on Youngstown’s police department take a test at South High School. Thirty had failed aptitude or physical tests, which made them ineligible for the written exam.

September 12, 1958: An 8-year-old Unity School pupil, Ernest Hitchcock Jr. of New Springfield, is killed when a large tractor trailer truck smashes into a school bus slowing to stop in heavy fog on Rt. 14 between Unity and Rt. 7.

Charles Carabbia is found guilty in absentia of creating a disturbance and abusing a police officer after he refused to appear in Mayor’s Court. He is fined $100 and Mayor Harold Milligan says he will ask city council to increase the penalty for abusing police officers in the performance of their duties.

Playing at the State Theater: Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, starring Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor and John Kerr.

September 12, 1933: Seven armed bandits hold up the Sol J. Gully state bank in Farrell, Pa., take about $7,000 from the cash drawers and the vault and kidnap K.W. Wild, a watchmaker. The bandits dropped Wild off in Youngstown, near St. Elizabeth Hospital on Belmont Avenue.

Youngstown policemen have picked up 110 people in their crackdown on vice in the city. Municipal Judge Peter Mulholland frees 51 for lack of evidence.