Years Ago

YEARS AGo

Today is Saturday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2014. There are 109 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1759: During the final French and Indian War, the British defeat the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.

1788: The Congress of the Confederation authorizes the first national election, and declares New York City the temporary national capital.

1803: Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, dies in Philadelphia.

1814: During the War of 1812, British naval forces begin bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but are driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following morning.

1911: The song “Oh, You Beautiful Doll,” a romantic rag by Nat D. Ayer and Seymour Brown, is first published by Jerome H. Remick & Co.

1948: Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine is elected to the U.S. Senate; she becomes the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1959: Elvis Presley first meets his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They marry in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)

1971: A four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ends as police and guards storm the prison; the ordeal and final assault claim the lives of 32 inmates and 11 employees.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: The Erie Terminal Development Corp. receives a $1.5 million state loan toward the $2.3 million proposed redevelopment of the Erie Terminal Building in downtown Youngstown.

Relatives of two murder victims testify against a plea bargain that was made between the Mahoning County prosecutor’s office and Ira L. Bray that allowed him to avoid the death penalty in the murder of two East Siders, Jonathan Perry, 21, and Victor Hardret, 17.

A Poland Township group, Don’t Use My Property, asks for permission to participate in Browning-Ferris Industries’ appeal of an Ohio EPA order closing the Carbon Limestone Landfill.

1974: The Most Rev. William A. Hughes is consecrated as a bishop by Archbishop John Bernardin of Cincinnati and Cardinal John Dearden of Detroit at St. Columba Cathedral.

A Rape-Victim Counselor Project is established by the Mahoning County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board through a $25,000 grant from Children and Family Service.

Weathersfield Local School District Superintendent William Rummell says groundbreaking will be Sept. 17 for a new $2.5 million high school.

1964: Willie Davenport of Howland wins an Olympic berth in the 110-meter hurdles at the Olympic track and field trials in Los Angeles. John Gutkneckt of Poland finishes a strong fifth in the 10,000-meter run.

1939: A sharp decline in unemployment coupled with a further gain in steel output, a new record in the number of telephones in service and an improvement in retail trade are making the prosperity horizon of Youngstown brighter.

Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Holzbach of Salem, who survived the sinking of the liner Athenia in the Atlantic, arrive in New York aboard the Cameronia and say that the “tenseness among the passengers was terrible” throughout the voyage.

The Youngstown College Gridiron Club reaches 871 sales of YC season football tickets toward its goal of 1,000.