Years Ago
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 18, the 262nd day of 2012. There are 104 days left in the year.
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1850: Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, which creates a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners.
1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs a commission naming Rabbi Jacob Frankel of Rodeph Shalom Congregation in Philadelphia the first Jewish chaplain of the U.S. Army.
1927: The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) makes its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.
1970: Rock star Jimi Hendrix dies in London at age 27.
1975: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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1987: An official of the Ohio School Board Association confirms that the Youngstown City School District’s financial picture is as bleak as the school district has claimed. Striking school teachers had asked for an independent audit.
Youngstown Police Chief Randall Wellington fires a white patrolman and suspends two others for their involvement in an incident during which racial slurs were directed against residents of a predominantly black housing project.
1972: The Youngstown area is shaken by a violent thunderstorm that dumps 2 inches of rain but causes little damage. Strongsville was hit with more than a foot of rain.
Linda Fell, 18, valedictorian of the 1972 Hubbard High School class, is fatally shot while babysitting two young children. Sheriff’s deputies say the fatal shot was fired from a 22-caliber rifle by a six-year-old child.
1962: Employees of the Youngstown Board of Education will be allowed three days leave with pay on religious holidays of their faith. The new rule will affect mostly members of the Jewish faith and Greek Orthodox churches.
A 72-year-old South Side widow is the third elderly resident in five days to be brutally beaten by two young home invaders.
An unidentified cone-shaped object is sighted over sections of Northeastern Ohio. Mahoning County deputies Donald Corey and John Raines saw it at 5 a.m. from Western Reserve Road.
1937: Some 450 Mahoning Valley Masons meet at the Mahoning Valley Masonic Temple to honor the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.
Two-year-old Sally Ann Frank is killed almost instantly when a small keg of cider falls from a truck in the backyard of her Wickliffe home.
Rudolph Collovicchio, 18, of 445 Division St. dies in South Side hospital of a fractured kidney suffered when he was struck by a bicycle ridden by Nick Borosivich, 15. Coroner D.H. Hauser says it is one of the few cases on record of a person dying of injuries when struck by a bicycle.