YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2014. There are 111 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1814: An American fleet scores a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

1857: The Mountain Meadows Massacre takes place in present-day southern Utah as a 120-member Arkansas immigrant party is slaughtered by Mormon militiamen aided by Paiute Indians.

1936: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt presses a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator.

1941: Groundbreaking takes place for the Pentagon. In a speech that draws accusations of anti-Semitism, Charles A. Lindbergh tells an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” are pushing the United States toward war.

1954: The Miss America pageant makes its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Meriwether, is crowned the winner.

1962: The Beatles complete their first single for EMI, “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You,” at EMI studios in London.

1974: Eastern Airlines Flight 212, a DC-9, crashes while attempting to land in Charlotte, N.C., killing 72 of the 82 people on board.

1984: Country star Barbara Mandrell is seriously injured in an automobile accident near Nashville that claims the life of the other driver, Mark White.

1989: The exodus of East German refugees from Hungary to West Germany begins.

1994: Actress Jessica Tandy dies in Easton, Conn., at age 85.

2001: On America’s single-worst day of terrorism, nearly 3,000 people are killed as 19 al-Qaida members hijack four passenger jetliners, sending two of the planes smashing into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in Western Pennsylvania.

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1989: Warren teachers and the Board of Education reach a tentative settlement in a strike that has kept 8,100 students out of classes for two weeks.

Dr. John McElroy is the new transplant surgeon and director of the Northeast Ohio Transplant Center at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center. Dr. McElroy has performed more than 100 kidney transplants.

Cold Metal Products Co. Inc. of Youngstown purchases New Bern Steel Corp. in North Carolina, which produces narrow steel strip.

1974: Youngstown State University general admission football tickets, regularly priced at $2.50, can be purchased for $2 in advance at the athletic business office in Beeghly Center.

Anthony A. Scandy, 49, chairman of United Auto Workers Local 1112 at the General Motors Lordstown plant, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital, where he was taken after suffering a heart attack during a negotiation session Aug. 21.

Clingan Jackson, Vindicator political editor, is presented a “Spirit of ’76” plaque in recognition of his dedication to citizenship and good government by the Mill Creek Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association.

1964: Semon E. Knudsen and Robert H. Gatham, general managers of Chevrolet and Fisher Body division of General Motors, announce that ground will be broken for a plant in Lordstown on Sept. 29.

Virtually all the “workable capacity” in the Youngstown district’s steel plants is at work, with the district remaining near 82 percent.

1939: Avery C. Adams, former Youngstown man, is elected vice president of the United States Steel Corp. and will be in charge of sales. His father was Youngstown banker A.E. Adams.

Mrs. Joseph Janceski of 88 E. Delason Ave. has a special interest in the fate of the Polish government because she was a childhood playmate of Polish President Ignace Moscicski when growing up in Stupsk.

Dominic Mussolini of Trumbull County, who emigrated to the United States from Argentina in 1909, is sworn in as a U.S. citizen in Trumbull County. He says he is a second cousin of Italy’s Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, and played with him as a child.