YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2014. There are 113 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1543: Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of Scots at Stirling Castle, nine months after she was born.

1776: The second Continental Congress makes the term “United States” official, replacing “United Colonies.”

1893: Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gives birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House; it is the first time a president’s child was born in the executive mansion.

1919: Some 1,100 members of Boston’s 1,500-man police force go on strike. (The strike was broken by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge with replacement officers.)

1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) is incorporated by the Radio Corp. of America.

1932: The steamboat Observation explodes in New York’s East River, killing 72 people.

1948: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is declared.

1956: Elvis Presley makes the first of three appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

1971: Prisoners seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that ended up claiming 43 lives.

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1989: The Youngstown Club, once the nerve center for the Valley’s industrial might, is moving from the top floors of the Bank One Building after 63 years and will take over the fifth floor of the Commerce Building on East Federal Street.

The 7th District Court of Appeals upholds the firing of Socrates Kolitsos,from Youngs-town’s Community Development Agency. Mayor Patrick Ungaro fired Kolitsos from his civil service job because Kolitsos is running for a partisan political office.

Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk sends a critical letter to the Rev. Roger Griese, 73-year-old pastor of a Dayton church, who enforces a strict dress code, refusing communion to people wearing shorts or other attire he deems immodest.

1974: A six-alarm fire at the former Ohio Leather Co. in Girard destroys one building of the complex, which is being converted into an industrial park.

Girard teachers go on strike in sympathy with noncertificated employees, whose strike is entering its second week.

Clingan Jackson, Vindicator political editor, finds most local politicians interviewed express an unfavorable view of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of President Richard M. Nixon.

1964: St. Stan’s CWV Post 1222 defeats the Bears Club to win the 35th annual Y Golf League championship at Mill Creek Park.

An Associated Press count over the 78-hour Labor Day holiday weekend shows that 531 people died on the nation’s highways, while 18 died in boating accidents and 50 others drowned.

1939: Eight candidates file for mayor of Youngstown: Thomas L. Barrowman, Fred M. Griffiths, Guy T. Ohl, John W. Powers, William B. Spagnola, Patrick F. Vahey, Fred G. Weimer and Arthur H. Williams.

There are only two more nights of dog racing at the Fowler track on Route 305 in Trumbull County. The Lake Milton dog track will then open its new session.

Mrs. Mary Orosz of 2944 Vestal Road and her two daughters arrive home in Youngstown from a visit to Poland, happy to have been able to flee only days before the Nazi invasion.