Sunday, September 23, 2012
Today is Sunday, Sept. 23, the 267th day of 2012. There are 99 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1779: During the Revolutionary War, the American warship Bon Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, defeats the HMS Serapis in battle.
1780: British spy John Andre is captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point to the British.
1806: The Lewis and Clark expedition returns to St. Louis more than two years after setting out for the Pacific Northwest.
1846: Neptune is identified as a planet by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1912: Mack Sennett’s first Keystone short subject, a “split-reel” of two comedies both starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling (“Cohen Collects a Debt” and “The Water Nymph”), is released.
Houston’s William Marsh Rice Institute (later renamed Rice University), opens for classes on the 12th anniversary of Rice’s death.
1932: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is founded.
1939: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, dies in London at age 83.
1949: President Harry S. Truman announces there is evidence the Soviet Union has recently conducted a nuclear test explosion.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: The Lawrence County Board of Elections decides not to place a dog-racing referendum on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Atty. Joyce May becomes the first woman ever inducted into the Warren Lions Club.
Youngstown police arrest William T. Dawson Jr., 19, in a vacant house on Bryson Street and charge him in the killing of Youngstown Patrolman Paul Durkin.
1972: A federal judge in Los Angeles rules that money found by FBI agents in Cleveland, Boardman and Newport Beach, Calif., was obtained by lawful search and can be used as evidence against Ohio defendants accused of participating in the $3.3 million burglary of an Orange County, Calif., bank.
The United Steelworkers of America winds up its annual convention with resolutions demanding a 32-hour work week and a crackdown on foreign imports.
1962: The U.S. Senate approves by a 2-1 vote margin a bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown to create a national aquarium in Washington, D.C.
A $1,000 trust fund left in 1904 by a Youngstown real estate agent, Edwin Webb, for needy newsboys and bootblacks may soon be turned over to the Reuben McMillan Free Library Association.
The Youngstown University Penguins win their first home game of the season, beating Central Michigan, 14-7.
1937: Pliny H. Powers, 42-year-old assistant superintendent of Cleveland schools, is the new superintendent of Youngstown schools.
W.P. Barnum, Mahoning County Republican chairman, writes to the two GOP members of the Board of Elections favoring installation of voting machines in Mahoning County to speed and safeguard election returns.