Sunday, September 18, 2016
Today is Sunday, Sept. 18, the 262nd day of 2016. There are 104 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
A.D. 14: The Roman Senate officially confirms Tiberius as the second emperor of the Roman Empire, succeeding the late Augustus.
1759: The French formally surrender Quebec to the British.
1793: President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810: Chile makes its initial declaration of independence from Spain with the forming of a national junta.
1927: The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) makes its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.
1931: An explosion in the Chinese city of Mukden damages a section of Japanese-owned railway track; Japan, blaming Chinese nationalists, invades Manchuria the next day.
1947: The National Security Act, which creates a National Military Establishment and the position of secretary of defense goes into effect.
1959: During his U.S. tour, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Khrushchev calls on all countries to disarm.
1961: United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1970: Popular 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.
1981: A museum honoring former President Gerald R. Ford is dedicated in Grand Rapids, Mich.
1990: The city of Atlanta is named the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics.
2006: An Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur, Anousheh Ansari, takes off on a Russian rocket bound for the international space station, becoming the world’s first paying female space tourist. Aboard the space station, an oxygen generator overheats and spills a toxic irritant, forcing the crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost.
2011: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, breaks his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accuses him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a “moral failing” he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television that no violence was involved.
A magnitude-6.9 earthquake shakes northeastern India and Nepal, resulting in some 100 deaths.
For a second year, Emmy Awards for drama and comedy go to “Mad Men” and “Modern Family.”
2015: The Environmental Protection Agency says Volkswagen has intentionally skirted clean- air laws by using software that enabled about 500,000 of its diesel cars to emit fewer smog-causing pollutants during testing than in real-world driving conditions; the EPA orders VW to fix the cars at its own expense.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Liberty Police Chief Anthony Pilolli and the local Fraternal Order of Police ask township trustees to remove two police levies from the November ballot because the issues have become controversial.
Warren’s Civil Service commissioners say complaints about cheating and other problems with the promotional exams for the police department are baseless.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Charles Bannon refuses to order the closure of an adult video store in Boardman because trustees failed to hold the hearings necessary to close the store and were less than truthful in articulating their reasons for closing the store.
1976: The Most Rev. Valerian D. Trifa of Grass Lake, Mich., archbishop of the Romanian Episcopate of the Eastern Orthodox Church, is a guest for the 70th anniversary observance of Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church.
Det. Roger Halbert, 42, chief of the vice squad, is resigning from the Youngstown Police Department to take the job of police chief in Jacksonville, N.C.
A persistent rain drops almost 3 inches of precipitation on the Youngstown area, causing localized floods and the postponement of six are high school football games.
1966: James Sampson of Niles sweeps the top awards at the 20th annual Stamp Exhibition and Bourse of the Mahoning Valley Stamp Club.
Morgan’s Wonder Boy Restaurant announces plans to open a carry-out shop at North State and Olive streets in Girard.
William A. Hickman Sr., 71, of Canfield wins the quilting contest at the Canfield Fair. The retiree also crochets, embroiders, bales hay and tends a large garden.
Responding to a claim by Washington Columnist Jack Anderson that a Lake Erie-to-Ohio River Canal would benefit no one outside the Mahoning Valley, U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan of Youngstown says the waterway would be one of the most important projects in the world.
1941: Enrollment at Youngstown College is 1,630 for the new term: 1,190 in day and evening classes in the College of Arts and Science and 440 in business and secretarial classes.
Federal Furs Inc. on the square in Youngstown has 500 coats to choose from in its big fall sale. Krimmer lamb, beaver and several others are on sale at $52.
American Welding & Manufacturing Co. in Warren is building a $484,000 plant on Griswold Street to produce tank parts.