YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2014. There are 112 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1608: John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1813: An American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. (Afterward, Perry sent out the message, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”)

1919: New York City welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who’d served in the U.S. First Division during World War I.

1935: Sen. Huey P. Long dies in Baton Rouge two days after being shot in the Louisiana state Capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Weiss.

1939: Canada declares war on Germany.

1945: Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in October 1945).

1955: The long-running TV Western series “Gunsmoke,” starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, premieres on CBS television.

1963: Twenty black students enter Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.

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1989: Youngstown Finance Director Gary Kubic says business people proposing a port authority to oversee the Youngstown Municipal Airport “want a port authority as long as the city provides the checkbook.”

The Youngstown, Trumbull County and Lawrence County housing authorities have kicked out more than 80 tenants convicted of drug offenses in the past year, and more evictions are anticipated under HUD Director Jack Kemp’s call for “immediate eviction of any resident engaged in illegal drug activity.”

The Youngstown Board of Education is considering the fate of Rayen Stadium after receiving complaints from North Side residents about its deteriorating condition.

1974: In a special election, Poland School District voters reject a 6.6-mill operating levy and West Branch voters reject a school bond issue.

At the urging of a former inmate, Youngstown City Jail is inspected by the health department, which finds it in “generally fair” condition, but notes that cells should be disinfected.

Dr. James L. Calvin, 50, director of the cardiovascular laboratory at the Youngstown Hospital Association, dies in North Side Hospital, a year after an inoperable tumor was found on his lung.

1964: Two Columbiana County men are in Ellwood City, Pa., jail. They were apprehended 15 minutes after robbing the Koppel branch of the Union National Bank of Pittsburgh and fleeing with $4,681.

Poland voters will decide in a referendum vote whether zoning can be changed on Route 224 and Clingan Road to allow construction of commercial buildings.

1939: Ohio Lt. Gov. Paul Herbert, president of the War Veterans Republican Club of Ohio, tells a Republican rally at the Canfield Fairgrounds that members of the 551 clubs in the state should work toward keeping the United States out of the war in Europe. Gov. John W. Bricker tells the group that “We are strong enough to protect ourselves and big enough to take care of our own business. Our only threat is from within.”

A new entrance to Mill Creek Park is opened off Wilkinson Road leading to the Lily Pond.

Mrs. Paul J. Thomas of 1119 Bryson St. arrives in New York on the passenger ship Ile de France with an overflow load of passengers fleeing the war in England and France.