YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2014. There are 110 days left in the year.

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1814: The Battle of North Point takes place in Maryland during the War of 1812 as American forces slow British troops advancing on Baltimore.

1846: Elizabeth Barrett secretly marries Robert Browning at St. Marylebone Church in London.

1914: During World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ends in an Allied victory against Germany.

1938: Adolf Hitler demands the right of self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.

1944: The Second Quebec Conference opens with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in attendance.

1953: Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.

1960: Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy tackles questions about his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Southern Baptist group, “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.”

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1989: The number of cancer deaths among a sample group of General Motors Lordstown Complex employees was 41 percent higher than what could be expected among Americans at large, a union-management group reports.

Ohio high school students’ most recent college entrance exam scores remain above the national average, although they dropped slightly, the Ohio Department of Education reports.

Warren school teachers return to the classroom, ending a 15-day strike that kept 8,100 students home for an extended summer vacation.

1974: John Grix, public relations coordinator for General Motors at Lordstown, tells a Cleveland business group that GM may be underwriting its own labor problems at Lordstown by paying up to $750 a year in college tuition for workers. Lordstown managers are dealing with workers who are comparatively well educated and have ambitions consistent with their education.

The Cleveland Indians acquire veteran slugger, Frank Robinson, 39, from the California Angels on waivers.

1964: Alfred S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., predicts 1964 will see the U.S. steel industry exceed its record production of 1956.

William B. McKelvey, president of McKelvey’s, announces that the store will be open five nights until 9 p.m. “We have no branch stores. We believe in downtown Youngstown, but we must be open when the plazas are open in order to compete,” Mc-Kelvey says.

1939: Columbiana County schools will close for three days during the 94th annual Columbiana County Fair that will run for three days and two nights, Sept. 12 through Sept. 14.

Responding to pressing demands from virtually all lines, Youngstown district steel production will jump another six points to about 70 percent.

Youngstown Congressman Michael J. Kirwan tells a group of businessmen at Raver’s Restaurant that he supports a “cash and carry” amendment to the neutrality law, which would allow warring nations to buy material from the U.S. while preserving the nation’s neutrality.