YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2015. There are 113 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1543: Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of Scots at Stirling Castle, nine months after she was born.

1776: The second Continental Congress makes the term “United States” official, replacing “United Colonies.”

1850: California becomes the 31st state of the union.

1893: Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gives birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House; it was the first (and, to date, only) time a president’s child was born in the executive mansion.

1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) is incorporated by the Radio Corp. of America.

1948: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is declared.

1956: Elvis Presley makes the first of three appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

1965: Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium. Final score: 1-0.

1971: Prisoners seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that ends up claiming 43 lives.

1976:Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong dies in Beijing at age 82.

1997: Actor Burgess Meredith dies in Malibu, Calif., at age 89.

2005: Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, is relieved of his on-site command.

2010: A natural-gas pipeline explosion kills eight people and destroys dozens of homes in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno

2014:President Barack Obama meets privately with congressional leaders at the White House to discuss his plan for taking action against Islamic State militants.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Arson is suspected in a fire at the Park Vista Retirement Community that necessitated the evacuation of 100 elderly residents. It was the second suspicious fire at the facility this summer.

Ross H. Spencer, 69, who lives on North Dunlap Street on Youngstown’s West Side, publishes his 12th mystery novel, “The Devereaux File.”

In a letter to Youngstown area Jewish leaders, U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant says he knows that his involvement in the cases of two men accused of being Nazi war criminals would mean trouble, but he persists because of his strong belief in individual rights.

1975: Responding to complaints by the Warren Area Urban League, Warren City Council announces that it will have a public hearing into allegations of police brutality.

A 21-year-old Adams Street man charged with raping a 13-year-old girl is treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for injuries suffered in a beating by other prisoners in Youngstown City Jail, and police are investigating the firebombing of the man’s home, which did $4,500 in damage.

Held over for a third and final week at the Newport Theater on the South Side is “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

1965: Richard Van Cleve, executive vice president and general manager of the Isaly Dairy Co., reports the company is suspending operations of its 256-acre farm at North Jackson and will auction off the dairy herd and sell the farm.

Edward J. Lewis, prominent in industrial and commercial real estate, is named “Realtor of 1965” by the Youngstown Area Board of Realtors.

Ohio Edison Co. and the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. are studying the possibilities of merging and generating electric power more cheaply with a new type of atomic reactor.

1940: Youngstown Mayor William Spagnola says effective steps will be taken to close all private clubs and bootleggers selling liquor Sundays or after hours.

A Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial praises U.S. Reps. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown, Don W. Harter of Akron and Harold K. Claypool of Chillicothe for placing the country’s interest above politics in voting for a draft bill. “Delay is dangerous and unpatriotic,” the editorial states, and the three “stand head and shoulders above their short-sighted colleagues in the Ohio delegation.”

The 95th annual Columbiana County Fair opens its three-day run.