Years Ago

Today is Friday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2011. There are 113 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1776: The second Continental Congress makes the term “United States” official, replacing “United Colonies.”

1919: Some 1,100 members of Boston’s 1,500-man police force go on strike. (The strike is broken by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge, who brings in replacement officers.)

1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) is incorporated by the Radio Corp. of America.

1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.

1971: Prisoners seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that ends up claiming 43 lives.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Four Trumbull County volunteers receive the I.B. “Jim” Taylor award for service to the United Way: Harry Lester Brady, Robert Burk, Elizabeth Hower and Gladys Hower.

The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission ignores the advice of risk manager John Franken and votes to allow participants in a nationwide peace march camp in Wick Park on the city’s North Side.

1971: The huge steel stamping plant at General Motors Lordstown plant is shut down by a wildcat strike, idling 2,100 employees.

A 17-year-old youth is charged by the Youngstown fire inspector with arson in the $850,000 fire that destroyed the U.S. Plywood Division of Champion Papers Inc. on Meridian Road 11 months earlier.

1961: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Warren, constructed at a cost of $310,000, is dedicated with the Rev. Herbert W. Veler, D.D., president of the Synod of Ohio, delivering the message at services.

Violence at the 1961 high school football preview at South High Stadium brings a 20-day jail sentence for a 20-year-old man arrested for using profane language and resisting arrest.

Chuck Tanner, the hard luck outfielder from New Castle, Pa., is back in the major leagues after the Los Angeles Angels purchased his contract from the Dallas-Fort Worth team of the American Association.

1936: Three county jail prisoners, described as “young toughs,” break from county jail just before noon after overpowering deputy John Phillips and fleeing in his car.

The dogs run at the Canfield Fairgrounds before about 2,000 people and with three deputies in attendance. Despite the oversight of law enforcement as many as a dozen bookies take bootleg bets on the races.