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Today is Sunday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2014. There are 115 days left in the year.

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1533: England’s Queen Elizabeth I is born in Greenwich.

1812: Battle of Borodino takes place as French troops clash with Russian forces outside Moscow. (The battle, ultimately won by Russia, was commemorated by composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”)

1907: The British liner RMS Lusitania sets out from Liverpool, England, on its maiden voyage, arriving six days later in New York.

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

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

1963: The National Professional Football Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

1968: Feminists protest outside the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.

1977: The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, are signed in Washington by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.

1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.

2004: An Associated Press tally shows that U.S. military deaths in the Iraq campaign have passed the 1,000 mark.

2009: Addressing a Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati, President Barack Obama declares that modern benefits such as paid leave, minimum wage and Social Security “all bear the union label.”

The Pittsburgh Pirates are assured of a record-breaking 17th straight losing season as they fall to the Chicago Cubs 4-2.

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1989: A Champion Township couple’s battle with an oil and gas well company prompts a state bill that would give Ohio landowners more clout.

Brentwood Originals, a pillow manufacturer located in Boardman, will build a 300,000-square-foot plant on the former U.S. Steel Corp. site in Youngstown, says Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro.

Victor Posner names Irving Riese, a New York real estate developer and fast-food mogul, as president of Arby’s Inc., replacing Leonard Roberts to oversee more than 500 restaurants in 33 states.

1974: Directors of Lykes-Youngstown, parent company of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, declare a common stock dividend of 25 cents a share at their meeting in New Orleans.

The body of Robert Talbert, 30, of W. Chalmers Ave., Youngstown, is found in a Boardman Township field with his hands bound and five bullet holes in his chest and head. He had been reported missing after he left his service station to make a deposit of more than $7,000 to the bank.

Jack Vivian, general manager of the Cleveland Crusaders hockey team, tells the Downtown Kiwanis Club that “hockey is the coming sport and is increasing tremendously in Northeast Ohio.”

1964: St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing graduates 40 women at its 53rd commencement in St. Columba Cathedral.

Youngstown public schools enrollment is 28,000, about the same as the 1963-64 school year.

Two tourists from Warren, Robert Hill, 35, and Rut Alice Jones, 36, are reported drowned when their boat overturned in Rock Lake in Ontario.

1939: Youngstown’s new radio station, WFMJ, officially begins broadcasting from its new building at Boardman and Phelps streets. Paul Whiteman and his noted orchestra, playing at the Palace Theater, will give a live performance at the studio.

Pliny H. Powers, superintendent of Youngstown schools, says student registration is at 29,569, 721 less than at the close of school in June.

Mr. and Mrs. William Van Wingerden are named superintendent and matron of the Mahoning County Detention Home by Juvenile Court Judge Henry Beckenbach.