YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 7, the 251st day of 2016. There are 115 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1533: England’s Queen Elizabeth I is born in Greenwich.

1825: The Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bids farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House.

1916: The Federal Employees Compensation Act, providing financial assistance to federal workers who suffer job-related injuries, is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.

1927: American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeds in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an “image dissector.”

1940: Nazi Germany begins its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London.

1963: The National Professional Football Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.

2015: Hillary Clinton, interviewed by The Associated Press during a campaign swing through Iowa, said she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.”

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1991: Fireworks mark the 600th victory of the New Castle High School Red Hurricanes, which defeated Indiana, 44-22, to become the fifth prep team in the nation to reach the 600 mark.

A 30-year-old Youngstown man being held on a loitering charge at a new minimum-security facility at a former firehouse at Oak and Fruit streets, walks away, prompting calls for the use of armed guards at the facility.

The Lawrence County Literacy Council is offering literacy workshops aimed at helping adults master reading and writing necessary to hold jobs and cope with everyday challenges.

1976: The 130th annual Canfield Fair ends as one of the most successful in history with more than a half-million visitors.

A seven-hour fire at the Penn-Ohio Truck Stop in Beaver Township causes $500,000 in damage. Three firemen, David Snyder, Glen McCormick and Oris Beight, are treated at Salem Community Hospital for burns.

Public and private schools in Mahoning County open to more than 67,000 students, including 20,500 in Youngstown public schools and 10,678 in parochial elementary and high schools.

1966: Dollar Savings & Trust Co. advises parents to start saving now for their child’s college education with a savings account paying a full 4 percent interest.

City workers strike in Warren, with 250 walking off jobs after the city refuses a demand for $20 per month pay raises, improved vacation and various work-rule changes.

Terri Wilson, 2, who wondered away from her Austintown home with two other children, is rescued after falling into the swimming pool at the Sherwood Motel on Mahoning Avenue.

Liberty High School’s football program gets a boost when the Lyden Oil Co. and Logan Way Valu King supermarket each buy 250 season tickets. The tickets will be given to preferred customers.

1941: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan requests that a formal hearing on construction of a Beaver Mahoning waterway be held by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Ohio Edison Co. plans a $3.6 million expansion of its Toronto plant, which would produce 40,000 kilowatts and be in operation by 1943.

The opening session of the National Amateur Baseball Federation Tournament opens in Youngstown, attracting 10,000 fans to 10 contests.