YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 24

Today is Sunday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2017. There are 98 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1789: President George Washington signs a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.

1869: Thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic known as Black Friday after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.

1890: President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, writes a manifesto renouncing the practice of plural marriage or polygamy.

1929: Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight.

1934: Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.)

1948: Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist “Axis Sally,” pleads not guilty in Washington, D.C., to charges of treason. (Gillars, later convicted, ended up serving 12 years in prison.)

1955: President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1957: The Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.

1960: The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Va.

“The Howdy Doody Show” ends a nearly 13-year run with its final telecast on NBC.

1976: Ex-hostage Patricia Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst was released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Jimmy Carter.)

1996: The United States and 70 other countries become the first to sign a treaty at the United Nations to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.

2007: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questions the official version of the 9/11 attacks and defends the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance at Columbia University in New York.

United Auto Workers walk off the job at General Motors plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976; a tentative pact would end the walkout two days later.

The situation comedy “The Big Bang Theory” premieres on CBS-TV.

2012: President Barack Obama tells the ABC talk show “The View” there was “no doubt” the assault of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans “wasn’t just a mob action” but a sign of extremism in nations lacking stability.” Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accuses Obama of minimizing the Benghazi attack as a mere “bump in the road.”

2016: The new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture opens in Washington, D.C.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Mahoning County Prosecutor James Philomena rules that a Springfield Township police officer acted correctly when he fatally shot Brian K. McBride, 20, who police said fired at them while fleeing from the Springfield Flea Market on Aug. 30.

ESSROC Material Inc. tells Poland trustees that the company will establish a landfill-free buffer zone of 210 acres if the company is permitted to relocate to Moore Road.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. proposes that Congress link the sale of up to 72 F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia to the resolution of a $11 million dispute between Bucheit International of Boardman and a Saudi prince.

1977: Squads of regular and reserve sheriff’s deputies from Mahoning and Trumbull counties head for Kent State University to bolster campus and local police in keeping peace during a national rally called to protest the construction of a gymnasium on the site of the May 4, 1970, shooting of students.

A man with a blue snub-nosed revolver robs the Girard Federal Savings and Loan Association’s Liberty Plaza branch of an undetermined amount of cash.

Ground is broken on East Scott Street for construction of the $4.2 million Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.

1967: Col. Claire Hazell is the new commanding officer of the 910th Tactical Airlift Group at the U.S. Air Force Reserve Base at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

The specter of a plastic-body automobile that has haunted Youngstown district steel firms and their 40,000 workmen will not materialize in the near future. Plastic or fiberglass bodies are catching on only for specialized cars.

Two new multistory buildings are being completed in Sharon and Hickory township: the First Federal Savings & Loan Association and Hermitage Square Bank.

1942: More than 30 Youngstown district women attend the annual meeting of the Garden Club of Ohio at the Higbee Co. in Cleveland, led by Mrs. W.E. Ensor of Warren, president of the district.

A class at Rayen School will train women in every phase of welding.

Rumors that the sale of gasoline would end at midnight sends thousands of area residents to service stations to fill their tanks.