YEARS AGO
YEARS AGO
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2015. There are 107 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1789: The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State.
1857: William Howard Taft – who served as President of the United States and as U.S. chief justice – is born in Cincinnati.
1890: English mystery writer Agatha Christie is born in Torquay, England.
1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
1940: During the World War II Battle of Britain, the tide turns as the Royal Air Force inflicts heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe.
1950: During the Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Incheon in the south and begin their drive toward Seoul.
1955: The novel “Lolita,” by Vladimir Nabokov, is first published in Paris.
1963: Four black girls are killed when a bomb goes off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen eventually were convicted for their roles in the blast.)
1965: The TV shows “Lost in Space” and “Green Acres” premiere on CBS.
1972: A federal grand jury in Washington indicts seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.
1985: Nike begins selling its “Air Jordan 1” sneaker.
1994: A tape recording of John Lennon singing with his teen-age band, The Quarrymen, in a Liverpool club July 6, 1957, is sold at Sotheby’s for $122,500 (it was at this gig that Lennon first met Paul McCartney).
2000: The 2000 Summer Olympics open in Sydney, Australia, with a seemingly endless parade of athletes and coaches and a spectacular display; aborigine runner Cathy Freeman ignites an Olympic ring of fire.
2005: President George W. Bush, addressing the nation from storm-ravaged New Orleans, acknowledges the government had failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina, and he also urges Congress to approve a massive reconstruction program.
2010: A mortar attack by Palestinian militants and airstrikes by Israel provide a grim backdrop as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas end their latest round of peace talks still divided on major issues.
2014: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Paris for an international meeting of diplomats, says he will not shut the door on the possibility of working with Iran against a common enemy in the Islamic State militant group, but that the two nations would not coordinate on military action.
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1990: Youngstown State University’s new $6 million dormitory, Lyden House, opens to rave reviews from early arrivals, the residence assistants and members of the football team.
William A. Pickett, an independent candidate for mayor of Warren, says city workers living outside the city should be given more time than the six months suggested by Mayor Daniel Sferra for them to move into Warren.
The Ohio Board of Regents is proposing a significant budget increase for the next two years to attract low-income students to Ohio colleges and universities
1975: Albert J. Shipka, 61, of Campbell, a longtime labor leader and a member of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital after a three-year illness.
Mrs. Henry McMasters, president of the Youngstown area Suburban Women’s Republican Club, is in a photo distributed by The Associated Press that shows her reaching out to shake hands with President Gerald Ford after he addressed the 18th Biennial National Federation of Republican Women in Dallas.
The prices of grocery items in the Youngstown area over the past year have fluctuated from week to week and even day to day, but the net result is a 12.1 percent increase over food costs of a year earlier.
1965: Mahoning County commissioners say they are not interested in participating in a proposed tri-county airport in Lordstown Township.
Prof. C. Earl Harris Jr. , who came to the Youngstown University faculty from Wisconsin State College in 1961, is named supervisor of YU’s department of geology.
Half of Ohio’s state-park beaches will continue to be open and staffed with lifeguards on weekends as long as warm weather continues.
1940: Ten Liberty Township schoolchildren will be barred from classes unless they salute the American flag, school-board members rule. The children are Jehovah’s Witnesses. C.C. Miller, the father of three of the children, says they cannot salute the flag “because it would break God’s law.”
Mayor William Spagnola says that Youngstown’s safety forces are seriously undermanned. Among cities between 150,000 and 185,000 population, Youngstown has the fewest men on its police and fire departments.
The fascinating story of how Abram P. Steckel of 379 Redonda Road developed the process of cold- rolling sheets and strips of steel in the face of derision from other steel men, is told in an article in Time magazine. Steckel won a $3.8 million settlement with U.S. Steel Corp. and Cold Metal Process Co.