YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2016. There are 109 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1515: During the Italian Wars, the two-day Battle of Marignano begins as forces led by Francis I of France clash with troops from the Old Swiss Confederacy. (The French succeeded in forcing the Swiss to abandon nearby Milan.)

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

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.)

1962: Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejects the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”

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 claim the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages.

1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur dies at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.

2015: Germany introduces temporary border controls to stem the tide of thousands of refugees streaming across its borders.

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1991: Two C-130 transports land at Youngstown Air Reserve Base, returning 140 members of the 838th Military Police Company from the Persian Gulf.

Hubbard Police Chief Raymond Moffitt says his officers do their job arresting drunken drivers, but the drivers are getting little more than a slap on the wrist from Girard Municipal Court.

Sallie A. Beatty, 21, of Howland is fatally shot as she eats lunch in her car in the Kmart parking lot on U.S. 422 in Niles. Police believe it was a random shooting and arrested a Warren man based on a license plate and description of his car provided by witnesses.

1976: Gloria Minor, 18, is in Trumbull Memorial Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation after being saved from a fire at her Tod Avenue apartment by William Ord, her landlord.

James Shipley, community relations director at St. Joseph Riverside Hospital in Warren, is installed as president of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Cleveland’s Reggie Rucker scores three touchdowns, and Paul Warfield one as the Cleveland Browns defeat the New York Jets, 38-17.

1966: Hugh A. Frost, director of the McGuffey Center, presides at a mortgage-burning ceremony. Mrs. Alfred S. Glossbrenner, who headed the fundraising committee, lighted the match.

Charles Carabbia of Struthers is released from a federal penitentiary after serving two years of a three-year sentence for tax evasion. As a condition of his probation, he’ll work as a truck driver.

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1941: Youngstown fire engine driver Walter C. Crisell retires after 20 years of driving the firefighting apparatus. He has an interest in the Hossel Hardware Co. on Mahoning Avenue and will be spending much of his time there.

The saddle-shoe set has a nightclub of its own at 259 W. Federal St. in Youngstown. The “Soda-Dance Club” serves nothing stronger than Cokes and chocolate milk to the 12-to-20 crowd. A five-piece orchestra and stage show are featured.

The New Waterford High School Band will march in the Columbiana Farm Bureau parade.