Thursday, September 10, 2009
Today is Thursday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2009. There are 112 days left in the year. On this date in 1939, Canada declares war on Nazi Germany as Parliament acts at the behest of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
In 1608, John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia. In 1813, an American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. In 1919, New York City welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who’d served in the U.S. First Division during World War I. In 1935, Sen. Huey P. Long, “The Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, dies in Baton Rouge two days after being shot in the state Capitol. In 1945, Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he is executed by firing squad the next month). In 1963, 20 black students enter Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Governor George C. Wallace. In 1979, four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Harry S. Truman are freed from prison after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter .
September 10, 1984: Judge William G. Houser welcomes 38 new lawyers at the annual opening of the fall term of the Mahoning County Common Pleas court.
Hughes Provision Co. begins selling its merchandise and equipment after announcing it is closing its store at 275 Federal Plaza West. Efforts to find a new downtown location for the store were unsuccessful.
September 10, 1969: Seeking to standardize quality control to safeguard steel markets and standardize maintenance procedures, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. names Edward S. Steigner and Emil A. Vierow to new management posts.
More than 20 witnesses, including several members of the Amish community, testify during a hearing in Youngstown against Erie Lackawanna Railway’s plan to drop its last two remaining New York-Chicago passenger trains.
Mayor Anthony B. Flask is portrayed as “an architect of progress” at the Hotel Ohio as 250 Democratic committeemen launch the 1969 election campaign.
September 10, 1959: A Youngs-town couple, “scared and hungry,” were picked up in their 14-foot boat in Lake Erie 27 miles offshore after drifting for three days. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Laughlin had nothing to eat but a few rolls until they were rescued by a Canadian vessel, the D.C. Everest.
The need for a national program to control pollen in the atmosphere and an outline of industrial activities in air pollution control highlighted the opening session of Air Pollution Control Association’s East Central Section at Hotel Pick-Ohio.
September 10, 1934: More than 30,000 cheering fans attend games of the National Amateur Baseball Federation’s tournament at fields in Youngstown. About 15,000 see St. Stans wallop Lorain at Evans Field.
Fred Kotheimer and Nell Brady open one of the most beautiful dance studios in the area at the NuElms.
Hundreds of guests from all parts of the country are expected in Niles for a week-long celebration of the city’s centennial.