Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2011. There are 97 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1775: American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen is captured by the British as he leads an attack on Montreal. (Allen was released by the British in 1778.)

1789: The first U.S. Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments become the Bill of Rights.)

1911: Ground is broken for Boston’s Fenway Park.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson collapses after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.

1957: Nine black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds are escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

1981: Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

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1986: Youngstown area LTV Steel Co. employees say they have already done their share to help the ailing steel maker and they oppose further wage and benefit concessions.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. announces an $800,000 federal grant to help pay for converting the historic Pollock House on the Youngstown State University campus into a university inn.

Mushroom experts warn area hunters not to pick and eat the mushrooms that have sprung up. Four people have been treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for mushroom poisoning.

Youngstown City Council approves 6 percent pay raises for 115 city employees classified as managers, including the mayor’s cabinet and the council aides, who are relatives of the councilmen.

1971: The Youngstown Board of Eduction warns that it will file suit to block a threatened strike by city school teachers.

Mrs. Frank Purnell, 85, of 280 Tod Ave., widow of a nationally known Youngstown industrialist and the first woman to serve as a trustee of Youngstown College, dies in North Side Hospital.

Joanne Santone, a Warren nurse, leaves for a year’s service as a Jesuit volunteer at a clinic in the village of St. Mary, Alaska.

1961: Hundreds of art lovers view and purchase many of the 1,500 paintings and other art pieces at an outdoor art show at the Kennedy Community Center in Poland.

A 14-year-old Ursuline High School student, Tom Svabik, is treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital after being beaten by three boys in Wick Park as he walked home from the Ursuline-Mooney game.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. purchases 32 acres of land and the long-idle “Anna” blast furnace in Struthers, one of the oldest in the district, from the Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Co.

1936: More than 800 singing, yelling students at Campbell Memorial High School march through the streets parodying their school song of “Fight, boys, fight,” into “Strike, boys, strike,” in protest against the transfer of a teacher, Michael Graban, to Reed School.

The Mahoning County relief caseload reaches its lowest point since 1930 and will be down to about 2,600 by the end of the month, County Relief Director I.L. Feuer says.