Years Ago

September 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2010. There are 104 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1759: The French formally surrender Quebec to the British.

1793: President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.

1850: Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners.

1927: The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) makes its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.

1970: Rock star Jimi Hendrix dies in London at age 27.

1975: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1990: The organized crime drama “GoodFellas,” directed by Martin Scorsese, premieres in New York.

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1985: State Sen. Harry Meshel is pushing the Mahoning Valley as the site of one of three new vocational training centers for displaced steelworkers.

Ron Lodwick and Brian Urichich, members of Boy Scout Troop 25 at Canfield United Methodist Church, receive their Eagle Scout awards.

The Monday Musical Club announces its 89th season, which will include Robert Merrill, the Norman Luboff Choir and Mel Torme and Jack Jones.

1970: While his motorcade is stalled in traffic in Chicago’s loop, President Nixon jumps out of the car and walks to the nearby Marshall Field & Co. store where he buys seven four-in-hand ties and one bow tie with a total price tag of $70.

An 18-year-old Austintown youth, a 14-year-old boy and 15- and 16-year-old girls are arrested in Auburn, N.Y., after a high speed chase in a car stolen from Austintown.

Joseph Yugovich, 60, owner of the Wonder Bar at 1854 W. Market St., Warren, is in serious condition in Trumbull Memorial Hospital after being beaten during a robbery at his bar.

1960: Enrollment figures for Youngstown University’s fall term show a total enrollment of 6,687 students, compared with 6,185 a year earlier.

Some observers say the battle over increased smoke if Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. installs oxygen jets on its open hearth furnaces will apparently decide whether the district remains the country’s fourth-largest steel producing are or will slip and eventually be out of the steel business.

Ground is broken for a new $400,000 St. Joseph Catholic Church of New Castle. The ultra-modern white stone structure will be complete in about a year.

1935: John W. Bricker, attorney general of the state, tells the Youngstown Rotary Club that Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution is probably the most important article in any document in the world because it protects the rights of even the lowliest of citizens.

Benjamin F. Fairless, former vice president of Republic Steel Corp., will be in charge of four U.S. Steel Corp. companies employing 52,000 men, including the newly formed Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co.