Friday, September 21, 2018
Today is Friday, Sept. 21, the 264th day of 2018. There are 101 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1792: The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
1893: One of America’s first horseless carriages is taken for a short test drive in Springfield, Mass., by Frank Duryea, who had designed the vehicle with his brother, Charles.
1938: A hurricane strikes parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming some 700 lives.
1970: “NFL Monday Night Football” debuts on ABC-TV as the Cleveland Browns defeat the visiting New York Jets, 31-21.
1981: The Senate unanimously confirms the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
1987: NFL players call a strike, mainly over the issue of free agency.
1989: Hurricane Hugo crashes into Charleston, S.C. The storm is blamed for 56 deaths in the Caribbean and 29 in the United States.
1996: John F. Kennedy Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, Ga.
2008: “Mad Men” becomes the first basic-cable show to win the top series Emmy; “30 Rock” and its stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin win comedy awards.
2017: Millions in Puerto Rico face the prospect of weeks or months without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
VINDICATOR FILES
1993: The FBI says that approximately $6 million in Columbiana County funds can’t be accounted for.
Most members of the Youngstown Board of Education favor opening the Choffin Career Center for classes for 12th-graders if the two-week strike by city school teachers isn’t settled quickly.
Kathleen Bradley, a Girard native, is the first black woman to model on “The Price is Right.”
1978: The financial effects on Campbell by the closing of Youngstown Sheet & Tube mills are beginning to be felt as income tax receipts through Aug. 31 have decreased by $296,000.
Youngstown City Schools begin enforcing a new state law, banning between 800 and 900 students from class because they lack childhood immunizations.
The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, representing some 200 classified workers at Youngstown State University, is negotiating with YSU for an initial contract.
1968:Lisbon Steel Fabricating Corp., a private company with only six shareholders, has grown consistently over 10 years, and although it has only 12 or 15 customers, it has annual sales of $1.5 million.
The operator of the Baghdad Market on Wilson Avenue, Albert Suleiman, routs two would-be bandits who pistol-whipped him.
Mrs. Terrie Curran of the Stambaugh Building files a lawsuit challenging Youngstown’s ordinance against going barefoot downtown, claiming it is a violation of her constitutional rights.
1943: The name of the Shenango Personnel Replacement Depot has been changed to Camp Reynolds, and only Army service corps men will be stationed there.
Local officials wonder about the effect of a new law that provides heavy penalties for bingo games held for personal profit and for writers and promoters of the “bug.”
Swamped with orders from frantic householders whose coal bins are empty, Youngstown coal dealers have only about 5 percent on hand and have poor prospects of getting more before winter.