Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2011. There are 116 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1711: Henry Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, is born in Einbeck, Hanover, Germany.

1861: Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant occupy Paducah, Ky., during the Civil War.

1901: President William McKinley is shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.

1916: Clarence Saunders opens the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, in Memphis, Tenn.

1949: Howard Unruh shoots and kills 13 of his Camden, N.J., neighbors. (Found to have paranoid schizophrenia, he is confined for life; he dies in a Trenton nursing home in 2009 at age 88.)

1966: South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death by an apparently deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town.

1991: The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

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1986: A ribfest planned for the Party on the Plaza is cancelled because of strict enforcement of health codes, but some 3,000 people come out to hear the music of the Fabulous Flashbacks, setting a five-year record for plaza parties.

The state of Pennsylvania and Allegheny County file suit in U.S. District Court to block a proposed merger of Kaufmann’s and Horne’s department stores.

1971: Dr. Norman P. Auburn, president emeritus of the University of Akron, tells Youngstown State University’s summer graduating class that there is much that is right about America and urges them to enter post-graduate life with a positive view.

A 10-percent surtax levied by order of President Nixon on imported cars and imported car parts is likely to increase the price of Ford and Chrysler mini-cars that are imported in whole or in part and which compete with Lordstown’s Vega 2300.

1961: A 10-mile cross-country marathon at Reader, W. Va., ends in tragedy when two track stars collapse and die of heat exhaustion. One of them is Dennis D. Stoner who graduated in June from Boardman High School, where he was the No. 1 distance runner.

Ralph Colla Jr. of Youngstown cards a 158 over two rounds to win the boys’ 10-12 title at the Great Lakes Bantam Golf Tournament on Akron’s Mayfair course. Jane Fassinger of New Wilmington shoots 191 to win the girls’ 10-12 crown.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan warns that the United States should stop thinking of water as an inexhaustible resource and make more serious efforts to conserve it.

1936: Sheriff’s deputies are called out to guard the cash in the Canfield Fair office after someone pulls a light wire at the dairy stand, throwing one midway and the secretary’s office into darkness.

Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. issues a temporary injunction barring Lloyd “Jack” Trammell, heavyweight boxer of 420 Kenmore Ave., from fighting under the direction of anyone but Porter Root of Parma, who claims he has a contract to represent Trammell for 10 years.

A Germany company has contracted with Cold Metal Process Co. of Youngstown to build the first Steckel type hot strip mill in Europe.