Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 26, the 270th day of 2012. There are 96 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1777: British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.

1892: John Philip Sousa and his new band perform publicly for the first time, at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, N.J.

1914: The Federal Trade Commission is established.

1937: The radio drama “The Shadow,” starring Orson Welles, premieres on the Mutual Broadcasting System.1955: Following word that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange sees its worst price decline since 1929.

1960: The first-ever debate between presidential nominees takes place in Chicago as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon face off before a national TV audience.

1962:“The Beverly Hillbillies” premieres on CBS.

1991: Four men and four women begin a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Ariz., called Biosphere 2. (They emerge from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Hubbard Township trustees approve a $5 license plate fee for township residents to make up for about $50,000 in federal revenue sharing money that is being lost.

Victor Posner will not be loaning Sharon Steel Corp. $5 million for the relining of a blast furnace, according to documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

1972: Three armed men who held up the Hubbard branch of the Mahoning National Bank are arrested by Youngstown police and $13,000 in loot is recovered from a car on the city’s northeast side.

Thomas A. Cleary Jr., senior vice president of operations at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is named president of the National Association of Iron and Steel Engineers.

1962:Federal tax agents swoop down on Youngstown’s Warner Theater, along with theaters across the country, serving orders freezing receipts from the closed-circuit television showing of the Sonny Liston-Floyd Patterson heavyweight title fight

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan’s bill for a $10 million National Fisheries Center and Aquarium in Washington, D.C., receives final approval in the House of Representatives.

1937: A stone monument has been erected in Calvary Cemetery over the grave of Michael McGovern, the puddler poet, who died in 1933. The monument, includes a depiction of a puddler furnace and one of McGovern’s verses.

The jury in the trial of John “Shorty” Steuben, a SWOC labor organizer accused of tearing up railroad tracks during the strike, fails to reach a verdict and is discharged by Judge John H.C. Lyon.