Today is Tuesday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2015. There are 114 days left in the year.

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2015. There are 114 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1565: A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla.

1892: An early version of “The Pledge of Allegiance,” written by Francis Bellamy, appears in “The Youth’s Companion.”

1900: Galveston, Texas, is struck by a hurricane that kills an estimated 8,000 people.

1921: Margaret Gorman, 16, of Washington, D.C., is crowned the first “Miss America” in Atlantic City, N.J.

1935: Sen. Huey P. Long, D-La., is shot and mortally wounded inside the Louisiana State Capitol; he died two days later. (The assailant was identified as Dr. Carl Weiss, who was gunned down by Long’s bodyguards.)

1945: Bess Myerson of New York is crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J., becoming the first Jewish contestant to win the title.

1966: The science-fiction TV series “Star Trek” premieres on NBC; the situation comedy “That Girl,” starring Marlo Thomas, premieres on ABC.

1974: President Gerald R. Ford grants a “full, free, and absolute pardon” to former President Richard Nixon covering his entire term in office.

1994: USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737, crashes into a ravine as it is approaching Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people on board.

2005: Congress hastens to provide an additional $51.8 billion for relief and recovery from Hurricane Katrina; President George W. Bush pledges to make it “easy and simple as possible” for uncounted, uprooted storm victims to collect food stamps and other government benefits.

2010: BP takes some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report, acknowledging among other things that it had misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well, but also assigned responsibility to its partners on the doomed rig.

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1990: Elmer Harsney is stabbed to death during what police believe was a robbery at his Atkinson Avenue home on Youngstown’s East Side on the eve of his 73rd birthday.

A former Champion woman, Sandra Williams, who was working in Kuwait at the time of the Iraqi invasion, is flown to Jordan after hiding with friends for five weeks and is expected to be back in Trumbull County within days.

The Boys Club of Youngstown accepts its first female members and renames itself the Boys and Girls Club of Youngstown.

1975: An estimated 750 employees of Copperweld Corp.’s board 15 charter buses for a one-day trip to Washington, D.C., to protest the takeover of their company by Societe Imetal, a French holding company controlled by the Rothschild family.

The family of a 21-year-old Adams Street man who was arrested in the rape of a 13-year-old girl flee their home under protection of Youngstown police after vandals stoned the house.

As a cost-saving measure, the Pennsylvania Transportation Department will not conduct snow removal operations from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. except for emergencies.

1965: Youngstown schools open for the new academic year with an enrollment of 27,015, but by the time all children return from vacations and new enrollments arrive, the number is expected to be 28,300.

Under a new state law granting each school district funds to distribute to its employees, the Youngstown Board of Education awards supplemental compensation of $200 to each teacher and $100 to noncertificated employees.

G.R. Schabel, employment supervisor for General Motors new plant in Lordstown, says the first 8,500 applicants have been interviewed for 5,800 jobs at the plant. More than 16,000 applications were received.

1940: In one of the best mound duels ever staged at the Idora ballpark, the Youngstown Browns edge the Mid-Atlantic champion Akron Yankees, 1-0, before 1,300 fans. The Browns’ Fred Sanford gives up three hits over 11 innings.

Former Ohio Gov. Martin L. Davey, seeking his third term, promises to “put humanity back” into state government as Ohio Democrats adopt a state platform advocating repeal of the sales tax and $40 monthly incomes for old-age pensioners.

The Campbell Board of Health orders that Memorial High School’s new stadium be closed until the Board of Education provides restrooms at the facility.