YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 14

Today is Friday, Sept. 14, the 257th day of 2018. There are 108 days left in the year.

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1814: Francis Scott Key is inspired to write the poem “Defence of Fort McHenry” (later “The Star-Spangled Banner”) after witnessing the American flag flying over the Maryland fort after a night of British naval bombardment during the War of 1812.

1901: President William McKinley of Niles dies in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him.

1927: Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan dies in Nice, France, when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of the sports car she was riding in.

1975: Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.

1982: Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, dies at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before.

2001: Americans pack churches and clog public squares on a day of remembrance for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

2008: Losing its devastating punch as a major hurricane, Ike nevertheless drubs the Midwest with powerful winds and floodwaters.

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1993: In a rare display of emotion, Coach Bill Belichick thrusts his fist in the air and runs onto the field after his Cleveland Browns upset the San Francisco 49ers, 23-13, before 78,000 fans at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

Residents of the Logangate and Loganbrook neighborhoods in Liberty Township react angrily to Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro’s proposal to annex 55 acres of nearby land to the city.

Gary Friedkin of Girard, a member of the Little People of America, says a “midget toss” at the Draft House on 12th Street in Campbell is “perverted and sick.”

1978: A coalition of religious leaders and economic experts says opposition by President Jimmy Carter is blocking a $525 plan to buy and reopen under community/worker ownership the closed parts of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.’s Campbell Works.

The Youngstown Law Department reaches an agreement with plaintiffs in a federal racial discrimination suit that will allow the city to hire additional police officers from a Civil Service test on which only 14 people scored higher than 70 percent.

Nathanial Jones, former Youngstowner and general counsel for the NAACP, is one of five people recommended by a selection committee for a seat on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

1968: A consultant will be hired to work out a dispute between Youngstown State University, Kent State University and the University of Akron over which school gets an educational television station.

Alex Lucas, a 65-year-old convict is paroled from the Ohio Penitentiary on a burglary charge, and is immediately taken into custody on a charge of manslaughter in the death of Maksym Olenyck, owner of the Ajax Bar, 314 E. Federal St., in 1961. Lucas told a chaplain at the penitentiary about killing Olenyck during a fight.

Plans for a second home for boys is announced by Atty. Joseph Bryan of Steel Valley Homes, as he spoke to members of the Downtown Kiwanis Club. The home would provide boys with a home environment while they learn to accept responsibilities.

1943: A number of Youngstown retail stores will begin Monday night shopping hours on Sept. 20, it was decided at a meeting of merchants in Hotel Pick-Ohio. About 24 stores will observe the new hours.

J.F. Lincoln, president of Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, tells the House ways and means committee that laws allowing the confiscation of excessive war profits penalize efficiency and reward inefficiency.