YeARS AGO

Today is Monday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2014. There are 107 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State.

1776: British forces occupy New York City during the American Revolution.

1857: William Howard Taft — who would serve as president of the United States and as U.S. chief justice — is born in Cincinnati.

1887: Philadelphia launches a three-day celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Constitution of the United States.

1949: “The Lone Ranger” premieres on ABC-TV with Clayton Moore as the masked hero and Jay Silverheels as Tonto.

1950: During the Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Incheon in the south and begins their drive toward Seoul.

1954: As raucous fans look on, Marilyn Monroe films the famous billowing-skirt scene for “The Seven Year Itch” over a Lexington Ave. subway grate in Manhattan (however, little, if any, of the footage ended up in the movie; the scene was later reshot on a Hollywood set).

1963: Four black girls are killed when a bomb goes off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen eventually were convicted for their roles in the blast.)

1964: The prime-time soap opera “Peyton Place” premieres on ABC-TV.

1989: Pulitzer Prize- winning author Robert Penn Warren, the first poet laureate of the U.S., dies in Stratton, Vt., at age 84.

1994: A tape recording of John Lennon singing with his teen-age band, The Quarrymen, in a Liverpool club on July 6, 1957, is sold at Sotheby’s for $122,500 (it was at this gig that Lennon first met Paul McCartney).

2004: Three Americans are found guilty in Kabul, Afghanistan, of torturing Afghans in a private jail and were sentenced to prison. (Edward Caraballo, a freelance cameraman, was released in May 2006; Brent Bennett was freed in September 2006; Jack Idema, a former Green Beret, was pardoned in June 2007.)

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1989: The Ohio State University marching band will perform at the Boardman Band Night ’89 at Boardman Stadium, along with bands from Boardman, McDonald, East Palestine, Lakeview, West Branch and Canfield.

After an eight-hour bargaining session called by Gov. Richard F. Celeste, work resumes on construction of the Associated Products building in Vienna Township, using virtually all local union labor.

A sheriff’s sale of the Poland post office is avoided with the payment of delinquent taxes on the building by Warner Realty of Warren.

1974: Work is slightly behind schedule on Lordstown’s $6.1 million high school, but contractors say they will be able to finish in time for the 1975-76 school year.

Edward A. Purnell, 77, retired president and former chairman of the General Fireproofing Co., dies of a heart attack at his Oriole Drive home.

Michael Devine, Josephine Harper and W.C. Clatterbuck win top honors at the 28th annual Mahoning Valley Stamp Club’s MAVEX ’74 at the Butler Institute of American Art.

1964: A Mahoning County grand jury returns two first-degree murder indictments and two vehicular manslaughter indictments.

Steel Magazine reports that over the next decade the U.S. steel industry will spend more than $20 billion for new equipment.

1939: Police Chief Carl Olson says 18 boys, age 16 to 18, are arrested on charges of disturbance and violation of sidewalk ordinances after football games. One group entered the Tod Hotel lobby and upset furniture.

Youngstown College defeats Geneva, 20-7, in the season’s opening game at South High Fieldhouse before 8,000 fans.

Atty. Guy Ohl, candidate for mayor, tells the Mahoning County Women’s Republican Club that “the bug is the paramount evil which must be suppressed” as he pledges a crackdown on numbers gambling if elected.