Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2014. There are 104 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

A.D. 14: The Roman Senate officially confirms Tiberius as the second emperor of the Roman Empire, succeeding the late Augustus.

1759: The French formally surrender Quebec to the British.

1793: President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.

1810: Chile makes its initial declaration of independence from Spain with the forming of a national junta.

1927: The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) makes its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.

1931: An explosion in the Chinese city of Mukden damages a section of Japanese-owned railway track; Japan, blaming Chinese nationalists, invades Manchuria the next day.

1947: The National Security Act, which creates a National Military Establishment, goes into effect.

1961: United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.

1964: Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, 84, dies in Torquay, England.

1975: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Trumbull County’s two Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court judges, Thomas Norton and Peter Panagis, are sparring over which of them should be administrative judge. Norton says Panagis has held the title for too long.

State investigators allege that officials of Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency and its counterpart in Cleveland have conspired to divert public money to private use.

Bernie Kosar passes for three touchdowns in leading the Cleveland Browns to a 38-4 victory over the New York Jets.

1974: Jerome Hull, 92, of Youngstown-Salem Road, well-known educator, horticulturist and fruit farmer, dies of infirmities at his home. He was the first superintendent of Mahoning County schools.

Ten Youngstown area men, including rackets figure Joey Naples Jr., 42, of Carlotta Drive, plead not guilty to a number of gambling and conspiracy charges before U.S. District Judge Leroy J. Contie Jr. in Cleveland.

Ohio’s incumbent Chief Justice C. William O’Neill is recommended for re-election by 315 members of the Mahoning County Bar Association over his November opponent, Youngstown’s Appellate Judge Joseph E. O’Neill.

1964: Gov. James A. Rhodes issues a call for a special session of the 105th Ohio General Assembly to consider legislation dealing with congressional redistricting and the creation of two state universities.

Ohio Republicans wind up a one-day convention in Ohio with calls for the party to carry Ohio for presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and speeches attacking Democrats in Washington and Ohio.

1939: Alma Jones, 18, of 341 Myrtle Ave., accidentally shoots herself in the abdomen when a shotgun she was inspecting at her home discharged as she set it down.

William Wallace, president of the Mahoning County Young Republicans Club, opens a campaign to increase the club’s membership to 10,000.

John Lovitz, 63, a WPA watchman, is found lying dead in a ditch near Austintown on state Route 18 after being struck by a hit-and-run driver.