YEARS AGO FOR SEPTEMBER 15

Today is Saturday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2018. There are 107 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: British forces occupy New York City during the American Revolution.

1789: The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs isrenamed the Department of State.

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of a misdemeanor charge two weeks after he was found not guilty of treason.

1942: During World War II, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; the U.S. Navy ends up sinking the badly damaged vessel.

1963: Four black girls are killed when a bomb explodes during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)

1972: A federal grand jury in Washington indicts seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.

1981: The Senate Judiciary Committee votes unanimously to approve the Supreme Court nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor.

2001: President George W. Bush orders U.S. troops to get ready for war and braces Americans for a long, difficult assault against terrorists to avenge the Sept. 11 attack.

2008: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average falls 504.48, or 4.42 percent, to 10,917.51.

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1993: Gregory Ridler, president of Mahoning National Bank and chairman of the Youngstown-Mahoning Valley United Way campaign, kicks off the 1993 drive that has a goal of $3.1 million.

Laura Bell Williams of Warren dies at 117, the same age as the person listed as the oldest in the world. Friends and family say she was singing in a clear voice “I’m on the Battlefield for My Lord” in her bed at Trumbull Memorial Hospital before she died of a heart ailment.

The Edward J. DeBartolo Corp., a privately held corporation for close to 50 years, is relinquishing control of its commercial real estate holdings through a public offering valued at $600 million.

1978: The first black woman to serve in the Ohio General Assembly, Rep. Helen Rankin, D-Cincinnati, is sworn it to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, James W., who died in June.

Twelve new state route interchanges on the Ohio Turnpike are recommended, including two in Mahoning County, one at Route 45 in North Jackson and one at Route 11 in Canfield Township.

The Lordstown Fire Department takes delivery of a new $34,000 ambulance.

1968:Early records of the Liberty Township school district uncovered in a storage building, show the school budget in 1869 was $3,012 and the end-of-the-year balance was 73 cents. The largest single expenditure was $150 for the teacher in the one-room school house, followed by the purchase of coal for the pot-bellied stove.

The vanguard of the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons arrives for a two-day session that will attract some 400 surgeons. Only emergency surgery will be performed in Youngstown hospitals to permit surgical personnel to attend.

Boy Scout Troop 44 at Poland Presbyterian Church has three new Eagle Scouts: Kenneth Glavan, Michael McKee and Gavin Burdge.

1943: Mrs. F. Emerson Miller, president of the Youngstown YWCA, opens an enrollment drive aimed at adding 2,500 members to the central branch. The minimum annual membership fee is $1.

Walter Mitchell, chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, accuses Gov. John Bricker of “robbing the taxpayers of $65 million” by not distributing the state’s budget surplus to subdivisions.

The Mahoning County Tuberculosis Clinic Association is organized to eradicate and prevent the spread of tuberculosis in the county.