Years Ago

Today is Monday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2012. There are 98 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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1789: Congress passes a Judiciary Act providing for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.

1869: Thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.

1890: The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, writes a manifesto renouncing the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage (the manifesto is formally accepted by the Mormon Church the following month).

1929: Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight.

1934: Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.)

1948: Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist “Axis Sally,” pleads not guilty in Washington, D.C., to charges of treason. (Gillars, later convicted, ends up serving 12 years in prison.)

1957: The Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Warren City Council rejects a proposed new pornography law by a 6-5 vote. Mayor Daniel Sferra came out against the law saying it would be unconstitutional and would open the city to problems and expense.

About 200 Youngstown parents demand that both sides enter marathon negotiations to end a teachers’ strike.

Mahoning County commissioners hire Edward Hlebak, 42, for the newly created position of risk/personnel manager, earning $36,000.

1972: Mahoning County voter registration exceeds 150,000 and election officials expect it to get to a record 165,000 or 170,000.

The Ohio Historical Society hopes to have the Harriet Taylor Upton home on Mahoning Avenue in Warren placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Boardman High School Marching Band has grown by 26 members to a group of 206 musicians and will play at halftime of the Buffalo-San Francisco football game at Buffalo, N.Y.

1962: The Mahoning County Board of Elections says voter registration is moving close to the 150,000 mark.

Donna Marie Holden, 19, of Almyra Avenue dies of a cerebral hemorrhage hours after her engagement and forthcoming marriage were announced.

1937: Ohio Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy announces the assignment of Joseph Heffernan, former mayor of Youngstown, to head the state’s counsel in prosecution in the rehearing of the $18 million Ohio Bell Telephone Co. rate case before the utilities commission.

Youngstown councilmen approve a $5 million city budget for 1938, which will provide about $150,000 in wage increases.