YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 15

Today is Friday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2017. There are 107 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of a misdemeanor charge two weeks after he was found not guilty of treason.

1857: William Howard Taft – who would later serve as president of the United States and as U.S. chief justice – is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.

1940: During the World War II Battle of Britain, the tide turns as the Royal Air Force inflict heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe.

1950: During the Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Incheon in the south and begin their drive toward Seoul.

1963: Four black girls are killed when a bomb goes off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen are convicted for their roles in the blast.)

1972: A federal grand jury in Washington indicts seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.

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1992: Boardman Park officials insist no decision has been made on the construction of baseball fields on land acquired by the park in 1990. Karen Bishop, who lives near the park, has collected signatures of 200 people opposed to the fields.

While many schools are stressing safe sex, a curriculum review committee for Champion Local Schools in Trumbull County recommends a curriculum that stresses abstinence.

The Miami Dolphins’ Dan Marino leads a 68-second late game touchdown drive that snatches victory from the Browns before 74,765 Cleveland fans. The Browns drop the second game of the season, 27-23.

1977: Heavyweight contender Earnie Shavers and NBC commentator Marv Albert are at WFMJ-TV’s Youngstown studios to provide commentary during three hours of boxing on NBC. Muhammad Ali did similar duty from a studio in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Ali and Shavers will fight at Madison Square Garden on Sept. 29.

General Motors will build an electrical components plant in Juarez, Mexico, a threat to the jobs of 11,000 assembly workers at Warren plants of the Packard Electric Division of GM.

Ivan Hall, 55, of 836 N. Turner Road, is found beaten and shot to death in his home, apparently by burglars who were inside the house when he returned home form work.

1967: A nightlong search for an 8-year-old Boardman boy who disappeared from his home around midnight is called off when Danny Campbell walks into his third-grade classroom at Stadium Drive School.

Aboard the USS Oriskany, The Vindicator’s Fred Childress interviews Youngstown district servicemen, including William Bartesevich, Paul L. Walker, Norman R. Fisher, Richard Strawbridge and Wallace Warren.

John McAdoo, general foreman for Republic Steel Corp. in Youngstown, is installed as commander of the Boardman American Legion Post 565.

1942: Marine Cpl. Frank Guidone, a star athlete at Wellsville High School, is credited with killing 25 Japanese soldiers during the battle for Tulagi in the Solomon Islands by accurately lobbing grenades at them as they tried to set up a machine-gun nest overlooking Guidone’s patrol.

City Council’s Finance Committee, Mayor William Spagnola and all city department heads will study the budget to find funds for pay raises for policemen and firemen.

Women of Trinity Methodist Church will meet Wednesdays to make surgical bandages for the American Red Cross.