Today is Friday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2015

Today is Friday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2015. There are 104 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1759: The French formally surrender Quebec to the British.

1793: President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.

1970: Rock star Jimi Hendrix dies in London at age 27.

1975: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

2010: During his visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to five people who’d been molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex-abuse crisis shaking the Roman Catholic Church.

2014: Home Depot says a data breach that lasted for months at its stores in the U.S. and Canada has affected 56 million debit and credit cards.

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1990: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro is questioning the Police Department’s practice of having some officers driven to and from work in patrol cars, saying that it takes away from patrol time and could affect response times.

While funding remains a major obstacle in Ohio’s quest for improving public education, parental involvement is equally important, say Jack Hunter, Paul Good and Michael O’Hara, candidates for the 17th District on the 21-member state Board of Education.

The Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corp. is poised to take control of the Higbee property downtown and will raze the former McKelvey department sore, turning it into a parking lot.

1975: Youngstown Vice Section Chief Roger Halbert issues a warning to local marijuana users that a “potentially fatal marijuana-like” substance is being distributed.

Baron Guy de Rothschild, chairman of Paris-based Societe Imetal, testifies in Pittsburgh that he would not tamper with Copperweld Corp.’s management if his company succeeds in taking over the American firm. Copperweld is seeking an injunction against Imetal’s $118 million takeover bid.

McCullough Williams, president of the Youngstown Board of Education, says board member Louis J. Marciella, who opposes a 6.7-mill school levy, should resign if Marciella continues to refuse to give specifics of his claim that the school district could cut $3 million from its budget.

1965: John R. Clark of New Castle, Pa., wins two top prizes in the Pennsylvania American Dairy Show. “Clark’s Beauty” won the reserve grand and senior championships in the female division.

Ohio has a good record in fair housing and civil rights, state Sen. Frank W. King, Senate Democratic leader and president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, tells the Ohio conference of NAACP branches meeting at the Hotel Pick-Ohio in downtown Youngstown.

1940: Ohioans called for military training under the national defense program won’t be “pushed” for home mortgage payments while in camp under a program announced by the executive committee of the Ohio Savings and Loan League.

Atty. George Renner, chairman of the Youngstown Civil Service Commission, resigns in a letter to Mayor William B. Spagnola.

Eleven local draft boards of three members each will be appointed by Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker to oversee the registration of about 30,000 draft- eligible Mahoning County men. Recommendations for the boards will be made by Probate Judge Clifford Woodside, the common pleas court and a third member to be chosen by those two.