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Today is Friday, Sept. 9, the 253rd day of 2016. There are 113 days left in the year.

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1776: The second Continental Congress makes the term “United States” official, replacing “United Colonies.”

1850: California becomes the 31st state of the union.

1893: Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gives birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House; it is the first (and, to date, only) time a president’s child was born in the executive mansion.

1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) is incorporated by the Radio Corp. of America.

1948: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is declared.

1956: Elvis Presley makes the first of three appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

1971: Prisoners seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that ends up claiming 43 lives.

1976: Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong dies in Beijing at age 82.

2006: After two frustrating weeks of delays, space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts blast off on a 12-day mission to install a big new piece of the international space station.

2011: New Yorkers and Washingtonians shrug off talk of a new terror threat as intelligence officials scramble to nail down information on a possible al-Qaida strike timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

2015: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history, serving as sovereign for 23,226 days (about 63 years and 7 months), according to Buckingham Palace, surpassing Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother.

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1991: Mounted police from the Boardman Police Department and Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department patrol the Southern Park Mall parking lot on weekends.

A displaced homemaker program to help women re-enter the workforce is being offered at Choffin Career Center, Mahoning County Joint Vocational School and Trumbull County Joint Vocational School.

1976: Two men who tried to shoot a lock off a rear door to make their escape are in New Castle City Jail after an attempted hold-up at the People’s Bank Mahoningtown branch.

Msgr. Thomas V. Dolinay, who spent some of his boyhood in Struthers and attended Highland Avenue School, is named auxiliary bishop of the Passaic, N.J., Diocese of the Byzantine-Ruthenian Rite by Pope Paul VI.

The location of the first log schoolhouse in Mahoning County is marked with a Bicentennial plaque on the Market Street side of the Mahoning National Bank in downtown Youngstown.

1966: Three people are killed instantly when their cars collide on Route 18 near Route 45, the worst accident in Mahoning County in more than three years. Dead are Peggy Wiezen, 18; Willie E. Williams, 44; and Mattie Johnson, 29.

A 225-acre site on Herbert Road in Canfield is selected as the site of a proposed new community college.

Proceedings begin to annex the site of the proposed multimillion-dollar Eastwood Mall from Howland Township to the city of Niles.

1941: Trinity Methodist Church’s Class 33 honors Miss Miriam Potter, who founded the class 50 years ago.

The Youngstown Symphony Society’s ability to maintain a symphony orchestra on ticket receipts alone is described as “miraculous” by Thomas L. Sidlo, president of the Cleveland Symphony.

Archbishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland blesses the cornerstone of a new $150,000 addition to St. Joseph Hospital in Warren.