YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2015. There are 111 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1714: The forces of King Philip V of Spain overcome Catalan defenders to end the 13-month-long Siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.

1789: Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first U.S. secretary of the Treasury.

1814: An American fleet scores a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

1857: The Mountain Meadows Massacre takes place in present-day southern Utah as a 120-member Arkansas immigrant party is slaughtered by Mormon militiamen aided by Paiute Indians.

1936: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt presses a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator.

1941: Groundbreaking takes place for the Pentagon. In a speech that draws accusations of anti-Semitism, Charles A. Lindbergh tells an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” are pushing the United States toward war.

1954: The Miss America pageant makes its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Meriwether, is crowned the winner.

1962: The Beatles complete their first singles for EMI, “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You,” at EMI studios in London.

1974: Eastern Airlines Flight 212, a DC-9, crashes while attempting to land in Charlotte, N.C., killing 72 of the 82 people on board.

The family drama “Little House on the Prairie” premieres on NBC-TV.

1984: Country star Barbara Mandrell is seriously injured in an automobile accident near Nashville, Tenn., that claims the life of the other driver, Mark White.

1985: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds cracks career hit number 4,192 off Eric Show (rhymes with “how”) of the San Diego Padres, eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb.

1997: Scots vote to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

2001: America faces an unprecedented day of terror as 19 al-Qaida members hijack four passenger jetliners, sending two of the planes smashing into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania, resulting in nearly 3,000 deaths.

2005: Weeping relatives mark the fourth anniversary of 9/11 with prayers, solemn remembrances and heartfelt messages at the site where the World Trade Center collapsed.

2010: Speaking at the Pentagon, President Barack Obama appeals to the nation to honor the memory of the Sept. 11 victims by hewing to the values of diversity and tolerance.

2014: In a joint statement, 10 Arab states promise to “do their share” to fight Islamic State militants, but NATO member Turkey refuses to join.

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1990: In an attempt to prevent drug dealing in Youngstown city schools, the board of education adopts a policy prohibiting students from having pagers, beepers or other electronic-message devices.

The Ohio Attorney General’s office claims an Akron company violated consumer laws when it sold tickets to a Struthers police-union event under the premise that the money would benefit the Children’s Olympics.

Mayor Daniel Sferra meets behind closed doors with city council to discuss the city’s residency requirement after the Warren Civil Service Commission questions the addresses on file for two police officers seeking promotion.

1975: Two city employees resign, and the downtown Goodyear store reimburses the city $4,330 for tires and batteries the city paid for but never received.

Clarence W. McClellan, 82, of Columbiana will ride his 3-year-old 10-speed bicycle in the Northeastern Ohio Century, a 100-mile bike trip from Mineral Ridge to New Lyme to Ashtabula and back.

Members of Mahoning Valley pioneer families are among 150 people attending a 100th birthday party for the Mahoning Valley Historical Society at the Arms Museum on Wick Avenue.

1965: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins, one of the giants in Ohio’s judicial system, plans to retire at age 86, having served 45 years on the bench.

“Looking into the Crystal Ball” is the theme for the Altrusa Club’s fall dinner meeting at the Tod Hotel. Margaret Braden is hospitality chairwoman.

Twenty-two young women graduate at the 18th annual commencement of the Hannah Mullins School of Nursing in Salem, and 21 students who enrolled in February receive their caps.

1940: The evolution of postage stamps is on display in Vindicator Square in the Post Office’s philatelic truck, which is in Youngstown for two days, having already stopped in 20 states and been visited by 345,000 people.

Republic Rubber Co. of Youngstown is awarded a $9,792 contract for furnishing rubber packing material to the War Department.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections is checking 60 petitions filed on behalf of Communist candidates for state office. Mahoning County Judge Erskine Maiden has issued a temporary injunction barring the board from certifying any Communist candidacy.