Today is Wednesday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2008. There are 98 days left in the year. On this
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2008. There are 98 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, Congress passes a Judiciary Act which provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.
In 1869, thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight. In 1955, President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack while on vacation in Denver. In 1958, “The Donna Reed Show” premieres on ABC-TV. In 1960, the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Va. In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratifies a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear testing. In 1968, the TV news magazine “60 Minutes” premieres on CBS; the undercover police drama “The Mod Squad” premieres on ABC. In 1976, Patricia Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (She was released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Carter.) In 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson wins the men’s 100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics — but he was disqualified three days later for using anabolic steroids. In 1988, members of the eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elect Barbara C. Harris the first female bishop in the church’s history. The government begins releasing the new, harder-to-counterfeit $20 bill.
September 24, 1983: The Pollock Co., one of Youngstown’s oldest industrial concerns, is up for sale and if a buyer cannot be found, the company at 101 Andrews Ave. will be closed.
U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams and Dennis Eckart, reflecting the sharp division in Congress on President Reagan’s Middle East policy, find themselves on opposite sides of a war powers resolution. Williams will support a resolution to allow Reagan to keep Marines in Lebanon for up to 18 months; Eckart wants to bring them home.
The Rev. Donald King, director of vocations for the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, will speak on vocations at a lecture sponsored by Msgr. Mears Council 3930, Knights of Columbus.
September 24, 1968: A brakeless 93-car freight train carrying coal from Newell, Pa., to Youngstown roars out of control at about 60 mph and derails in Ashtabula, leaving seven railroaders injured and damage of about $1 million.
The Mahoning County Welfare Department is seeking offers that would provide between 8,000 and 9,000 square feet of office space in the downtown Youngstown area.
The new $5 million Engineering Science Building at Youngstown State University is dedicated, with Gov. James A. Rhodes giving the main address.
September 24, 1958: Dr. Warren A. Guthrie, TV reporter and chairman of the speech department of Western Reserve University, is the main speaker at Youngstown University’s golden anniversary convocation.
Leaders of service clubs and parent-teacher groups meet with the Boardman Board of Education and voice strong support for construction of a $2.1 million junior high school.
A.S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. tells 14 new trainee students from India that Sheet & Tube is planning millions in construction and improvements before next summer.
September 24, 1933: Youngstown sports fans get a great thrill out of the winning of the National Amateur Baseball Championship by the St. Stans club, playing in Pittsburgh.
J. Denny O’Neill of McKeesport, Pa., misses the South-Memorial football game in Youngstown after a pickpocket gets his wallet while he was standing in the ticket line. The thief got $28, leaving O’Neill without the price of a ticket.