Years Ago

Today is Friday, Sept. 7, the 251st day of 2012. There are 115 days left in the year.

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1812: The Battle of Borodino takes place during the Napoleonic Wars as French troops clash with Russian forces outside Moscow. (The battle is commemorated by composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky with his “1812 Overture.”)

1940: Nazi Germany begins its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London.

1957: The original version of the animated NBC peacock logo, used to denote programs “brought to you in living color,” makes its debut at the beginning of “Your Hit Parade.”

1964: The controversial “Daisy” commercial, an ad for President Lyndon B. Johnson’s election campaign featuring a girl plucking flower petals followed by a nuclear explosion, airs on NBC-TV.

1972: The International Olympic Committee bans Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett of the U.S. from further competition for talking to each other on the victory stand in Munich during the playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” after winning the gold and silver medals in the 400-meter run.

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1987: Harold E. “Nick” Nichols, shop chairman of IUE Local 717 at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors, says the role of labor unions has changed from that of seeking better hours wages and benefits to “fighting just to survive.”

Despite new pressures from government and private insurers to keep hospital admissions down, St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center reports an increase in daily admissions, average daily occupancy, patient days and inpatient surgeries.

1972: Thieves who removed a lock from the pumps at the Kayo Service Station at 2531 Hubbard Road, steal some gasoline and then leave the pumps running, spilling 600 gallons of gasoline down the driveway and into the gutter. Firemen flush the street.

A strike by clerical workers shuts down Youngstown Steel Door Co., idling 950 people.

Steve Krispinsky, an All-City choice from Wilson High School, gains a starting spot as a freshman on the Ferris State College varsity football team.

The 38th graduating class of Choffin School of Practical Nursing has 43 graduates who receive their diplomas from Joseph Hutta, director of vocational and adult education.

1962: A 12-foot section of the right wing raised from Lake Milton is expected to be the key piece in a mammoth jigsaw puzzle as investigators begin to reassemble debris from an Ashland Oil Co. plane that crashed, killing 13 men.

William Brackett, 49, of Glenwood Avenue, dies of injuries suffered when he was struck by a large tractor-trailer rig in a downtown delivery alley.

Welfare Director I.L. Feuer says a 50 percent cut in relief allocations and a ban on new cases are probable if the county fails to get $300,000 it has requested from three cities in the county.

1937: Thousands of employees of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., from President Frank Purnell, to laborers throng Idora Park for the company picnic.

A record Labor Day crowd of 42,000 jam the Canfield Fairgrounds. At its peak, cars were backed all the way to the north end of Canfield village.

Warren city police raid confectionery and drug stores, beer parlors and taverns, confiscating 14 marble boards and arresting 10 people on gambling charges.