Years Ago

September 15, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2010. There are 107 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: British forces occupy New York City during the American Revolution.

1789: The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the State Department.

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of a misdemeanor charge two weeks after he was found not guilty of treason.

1857: William Howard Taft — who served as president of the United States and as U.S. chief justice — is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.

1940: During the World War II Battle of Britain, the tide turns as the Royal Air Force inflicts heavy losses against the Luftwaffe, forcing Adolf Hitler to indefinitely postpone his plans to invade Britain.

1950: During the Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Incheon in the south and begin their drive toward Seoul.

1963: Four black girls are killed when a bomb goes off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen are eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)

1982: Iran’s former foreign minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, is executed after he is convicted of plotting against the government.

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1985: Dr. H. Robert Dodge, dean of the Williamson School of Business Administration at Youngstown State University, will make a presentation on YSU’s proposed mall management program to a meeting of major commercial developers in Sandusky.

Catesby B. Cannon Jr., assistant managing editor, retires at the age of 65, ending a 45-year career at The Vindicator, including 17 years as city editor.

1970: Striking United Auto Workers set up pickets at seven entrances of the General Motors Lordstown complex, idling about 9,000 workers at the plants. Meanwhile, about 10,000 workers at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren remain on the job.

California Gov. Ronald Reagan signs a bill forbidding the busing of school children in the state to achieve racial balance.

The Trumbull New Theater will open its 23rd season with a performance of “Tartuffe,” by French dramatist Moliere.

1960: Candidates for the 1960 Youngstown University Homecoming Queen are Elizabeth Ford of Hubbard, Dorothy Hite of New Castle, Pa., Beverly Javorsky and Suzanne Skovira of Youngstown.

Voter registration in Mahoning County reaches 134,580 and hundreds of voters continue to register every day.

1935: A car driven by a Canfield teacher and coach, Michael Fusek, and carrying the six eighth-grade boys who had been pallbearers at the funeral of a classmate, collides with a lime truck in Canfield-Geesburg Road. Fusek, 32, and four of the boys, Ted Hagstrom, 13; Bert Little, 14; John Stock, 14, and Robert Cutting, 12, are killed.

James A. McKay, J. Russell McKay and Fred W. Green will represent Home Savings & Loan at the 47th annual convention of Ohio building and loan companies in Columbus.