YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 25

Today is Monday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2017. There are 97 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1690: One of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, publishes its first – and last – edition in Boston.

1789: The first United States Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments become the Bill of Rights.)

1956: The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable goes into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.

1957: Nine black students forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds are escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

1981: Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

1992: NASA’s Mars Observer blasts off on a $980 million mission to the red planet (the probe disappears just before entering Martian orbit in August 1993).

1997: President Bill Clinton pulls open the door of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., as he welcomes nine blacks who had faced hate-filled mobs 40 years earlier.

2012: President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledges U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad.

2016: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet separately in New York with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, giving each candidate fresh foreign policy talking points on the eve of their first presidential debate.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone is presented the Anti-Defamation League’s Cardinal Bea Interfaith Award during a banquet at Mr. Anthony’s in recognition of his decades-long efforts to forge stronger Christian-Jewish ties.

Flora Palmer is elected chairwoman of the Service Corps of Retired Executives Association. Other officers are Paul Baringer, Sidney Berkowitz, Richard Redman, John Grim, John Hudock and Norman Levine.

A 37-year-old Warren man accused of trying to abduct a 17-year-old girl and minutes later choking a masseuse at the Oriental Health Spa unconscious, tells police he had checked himself into Woodside Receiving Hospital to try to fight his urge to rape.

1977: Companies from outside of Youngstown, including Dayton, Virginia and Tennessee, take out classified ads in The Vindicator seeking to recruit skilled and experienced workers being laid off by Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

In interviews with Vindicator reporters, Carter administration official say that the federal government will not rescue marginal steel plants such as those in the Mahoning Valley.

Playing before 4,800 fans at Rayen Stadium, the Youngstown State University Penguins erupt for 27 points in the fourth quarter of their home opener to beat Western Illinois 37-16.

1967: Louis K. Levy and Samuel Penrod are named assistant Mahoning County prosecutors by Prosecutor Frank Anzellotti Jr.

Charles Shriver, founder and former president of Shriver-Allison Funeral Home, dies at the Masonic Home at Springfield, Ohio.

The Youngstown Transit Co. will try a “park and ride” program, providing off-street parking at its headquarters at 604 Mahoning Ave. and bus service to and from downtown.

1942: Most tender vegetables and flowers in the Youngstown district are killed by the season’s first killing frost as the mercury drops to 32 degrees.

Youngstown’s second tin can collection will seek at least three railroad cars worth for the war effort.

Two more Youngstown Marines are reported stationed on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Group: Pvt. James Long and Pvt. Elden Bona.