Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2011. There are 112 days left in the year.

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1813: An American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

1846: Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine.

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.

1945: Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in Oct. 1945).

1960: Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm eventually blamed for 364 deaths, strikes the Florida Keys.

1961: During the Italian Grand Prix, German driver Wolfgang von Trips loses control of his car and crashes into spectators, killing 14 of them and himself. (American Phil Hill wins the race.)

1963: Twenty black students enter Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.

1987: Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami, where he is welcomed by President and Mrs. Reagan as he begins a 10-day tour of the United States.

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1986: Joan E. Tims is leaving her role with Leadership Youngstown to become director of the Youngstown-Mahoning County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The name of the Davis-Velker Funeral Home has been changed to the Davis Funeral Home.

Ron Daniels, a black activist in Youngstown for more than 20 years, says he is withdrawing from the forefront of community activism.

Ara Parseghian, whose Notre Dame football teams won 95 games and two national championships in 11 years, predicts that the ability of the new coach, Lou Holtz, to motivate players will make him a success with the Irish.

1971: One of three men arrested by Youngstown vice squad officers in a charge of aiding and abetting nudism at the Scandinavian Adult Theater on S. Chestnut Street is found not guilty in Youngstown Municipal Court.

Trumbull County Commissioners John McCloskey and Lamar Young vote to withdraw the county from the Mahoning-Trumbull Council of Governments. Gary Thompson dissents.

Dr. David A. Belinky, Mahoning County coroner, issues an urgent plea for all residents to become deeply concerned about the increased use of drugs, noting that a Warren woman and Youngstown man recently died of narcotics overdoses.

1961: The Youngstown Education Association holds an orientation meeting for 111 new teachers hired in the Youngstown City Schools at Foster Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Graduates of the C.C. Choffin School of Practical Nursing receive their diplomas at Princeton Junior High School: Jean Rubino, Judith Braun, Carol Ciufo, Barbara LoGiudice, Susan Kovalchik, Cyanne Abdee, Lottie Makowka, Ruth Sainato, Barbara Burch, Catherine Fleisher, Anna Simchak, Frances O’Brien, Rose Ann Barovick, Ann Stevens, Olive Mentzer, Ardith Martin, Mary Lou Scheetz, Jennie Worley, Virginia Venable, Laura Charity, Virginia Clegg, Regina Crabbs, Clarbel McDuffie, Marie Snyder, Rosabelle Dubose, Virginia Fry, Joanne Hight, Juanita Gordan and Elizabeth Lampkins.

Some 500 freshmen at Youngstown University attend the annual orientation picnic at Wick Park.

1936: Police are combing Youngstown for three men who escaped from Mahoning County Jail, Frank Bydo, Ed Kolb and Claud Gigantelle.

Gov. Alf Landon, GOP presidential candidate, leads President Franklin D. Roosevelt by 1,108 to 938 in the first report of the Literary Digest presidential poll for Youngstown.