YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2015. There are 109 days left in the year. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sunset.

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1788: The Congress of the Confederation authorizes the first national election and declares New York City the temporary national capital.

1814: During the War of 1812, British naval forces begin bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but are driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the next morning.

1948: Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine is elected to the U.S. Senate; she becomes the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1959: Elvis Presley first meets his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)

1971: A four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ends as police and guards storm the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 employees.

1990: The police-courtroom drama “Law & Order” premieres on NBC.

1998: Former Alabama Gov. George Wallace dies in Montgomery at age 79.

2005: President George W. Bush takes responsibility for the federal government’s mistakes in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and suggests the calamity raises broader questions about the government’s ability to handle both natural disasters and terror attacks.

2014: Islamic State extremists release a video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, who had been abducted in Syria the previous year

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1990: Time is running out for members of Don’t Use My Property, a group in Poland that opposes Browning-Ferris Industries’ plans for expansion of its Carbon Limestone landfill.

Mayor Daniel J. Sferra tells Warren City Council that “anywhere from 20 to 60” employees may be living outside the city limits in violation of a 1980 ordinance.

Lowellville Village Council wants to know if it can do anything to regulate the speed of trains as they pass through the community, particularly at an unprotected crossing where a volunteer firefighter was killed in 1989.

1975: Without a single Republican vote, Democrats in the Ohio General Assembly pass a bill repealing the Ferguson Act, which provides for the firing of striking public employees, and establishing collective- bargaining procedures for public employees.

A group of Ohio legislators, including George D. Tablack of Campbell, Thomas Gilmartin of Youngstown and Michael DelBene of Hubbard, take a weekend trip paid for by the Ohio Osteopathic Association, ostensibly to tour the Michigan State University school of osteopathic medicine. The trip coincides with the Ohio State-Michigan State football game, which the delegation attended.

Seventy-one striking employees of the Youngstown Water Department settled their strike hours after it began when the city agrees to raises that are retroactive to July 1.

1965: Two days after celebrating his 86th birthday, George S. Bishop of Poland resigns as chairman of People’s Bank of Youngstown.

Twenty-five motorists are issued citations accusing them of hindering Boardman police and firemen at a minor fire on Hitchcock Road by parking their cars and blocking access to the fire scene.

Dr. Charles A. Granito is elected president of the Wolves Club, Den 6, at a banquet at Cicero’s Restaurant.

Boardman police issue citations to 25 motorists for illegal parking and for following an emergency vehicle too closely.

1940: Youngstown area car dealers say sales have been down for the weeks that Congress has been debating a military draft bill.

Mrs. Lorenzo Posada of West Watt Street asks Judge J.H.C. Lyon to allow her name to be removed from a petition she signed for Gus Hall, who is running for Mahoning County commissioner on the Communist Party ticket. She says she was never told Hall is a Communist.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Lynn B. Griffith is assigned to oversee the Geauga County grand jury that is investigating alleged dog-track gambling at Lake Milton and Brimfield Township.