Thursday, September 13, 2018
Today is Thursday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2018. There are 109 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1759: During the French and Indian War, the British defeat the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.
1788: The Congress of the Confederation authorizes the first national election and declares New York City the temporary national capital.
1814: During the War of 1812, British naval forces begin bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but are driven back by American defenders.
1948: Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine is elected to the U.S. Senate; she becomes the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1959: Elvis Presley first meets his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)
1962: Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”
1971: A four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ends as police and guards storm the prison; the ordeal and final assault claim the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages.
2001: Two days after the 9/11 terror attacks, the first few jetliners return to the nation’s skies, but several major airports remain closed
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1993: A Serbian girl and two Russian boys are among 60 young people from around the world spending the school year in the Mahoning Valley.
Youngstown school officials go to court to limit the number of striking teachers picketing school buildings.
Law-enforcement agencies in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys plan to apply for millions of dollars the Clinton administration is making available for community policing.
1978: The Washington Post reports that the General Services Administration has been paying millions of dollars to Art Metal Inc. of New Jersey for office furniture that does not meet specifications, while rejecting the “on specification” bids of GF Business Equipment Inc. of Youngstown and two other companies.
John Karlovic, 26, a Trumbull County deputy sheriff, is named Hubbard Township’s first police chief. As a deputy, Karlovic had been assigned to patrol the township.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Clyde Osborne orders the seizing and impounding of two pit bull dogs that have been terrorizing a neighborhood in the area of Gibson and Turner Roads in Canfield Township.
1968: U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie, Democratic candidate for vice president, tells a crowd of 1,500 at the USW hall in Campbell that “only a society created for the benefit of the people can solve the problems of crime.”
The Warren Junior Military Band plays “Hey Look Me Over” as a crowd of 1,200 in Warren give an ovation to Julie Nixon when she opens the GOP’s Nixon-Agnew headquarters.
The first fatality of the Ohio hunting season is Richard Morrelli, 16, of Glen Robbins in Jefferson County, who died after being shot by a 53-year-old hunter who mistook the boy for a squirrel.
1943: Bishop James A. McFadden, head of the Youngstown Diocese, dedicates the old Yale School as a junior high school for St. Edward Parish.
The Youngstown district experiences the earliest killing frost on record when temperatures in rural regions drop to 31 degrees, forming thin ice on watering troughs and crisping leaves of vegetables.
Mrs. Ann Dupois of Girard christens a miniature bomber, “Serbian Chetnik,” during ceremonies of the National Serbian Convention in Pittsburgh. She is the organization’s first Gold Star mother.