Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2017. There are 96 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1777: British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789: Thomas Jefferson is confirmed by the Senate to be the first United States secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.
1835: The opera “Lucia di Lammermoor” by Gaetano Donizetti is first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Italy.
1892: John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band perform publicly for the first time at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, N.J.
1937: The radio drama “The Shadow,” starring Orson Welles, premieres on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1957: The musical play “West Side Story” opens on Broadway.
1960: The first debate between presidential nominees takes place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon face off before a national TV audience from Chicago.
1986: William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.
2012: President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney both campaign in the battleground state of Ohio.
2016: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton participate in their first debate of the presidential campaign at Hofstra University in New York
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Jackson Township Trustee James Evans says that before township residents decide if they can live with a salt-extraction plant, Akzo Salt Co. must describe its operations at a public hearing.
In a battle between Steel Valley Conference powerhouse teams, Warren Harding scores a 7-3 comeback victory over previously unbeaten Boardman in Warren.
Six women from the Eastminster Presbytery will travel to Ghana on a mission project to learn more about the role that women play in the church. Going are the Rev. Meta Cramer, Norma Swank, Doris Bunkley, Karen Riley, Rose Marie Roth and Lydiann Spicher.
1977: Youngstown is getting national attention after the announcement that Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will close its Campbell Works, with stories in the Sunday New York Times and Washington Post.
An arson destroys the old A&M Supermarket on Long Avenue in New Castle, Pa., causing more than $250,000 in damage.
The Ohio Supreme Court refuses to consider an appeal by the Mahoning County prosecutor of a lower court ruling upholding Youngstown’s 40 percent surcharge for city water purchased by suburban residents.
1967: A two-month old electric monitoring system foils an attempted escape of six prisoners from the Mahoning County jail.
Joan H. Zublena of Youngstown files a $400,000 suit against the Youngstown Hospital Association for the death of her 4-year-old son, Daniel, who died of burns in an oxygen tent while being treated for croup at South Side Hospital.
Springfield Local School District’s 11 school bus drivers stay off the job in a salary dispute. Most of the 1,4000 students who normally get to school by bus manage to arrive by car.
1942: Mayor William A. Spagnola and Police Chief Andrew Przelomski issue shoot-to-kill orders to all members of the police department as a way of stopping a string of burglaries seeking auto parts at service stations.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Holland of Youngstown have reason to believe that their son, John, 21, previously listed as missing in action, is alive and a prisoner of war in Manila. His name was on a list published in Washington.