Today is Monday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2018. There are 98 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2018. There are 98 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1896: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minn.

1934: Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.)

1955: President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1960: “The Howdy Doody Show” ends a nearly 13-year run on NBC.

1968: The TV news magazine “60 Minutes” premieres on CBS.

2017: More than 200 NFL players kneel or sit during the national anthem after President Donald Trump criticizes the players’ protests in a speech and a series of tweets.

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1993: Vicki Van Meter, an 11-year-old sixth-grader from Meadville, Pa., becomes the youngest girl to fly a plane across the country, accompanied by her instructor on a flight from Augusta, Maine, to San Diego, Calif.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum orders representatives of the Youngstown Board of Education and the teachers union to his courtroom for a hearing on the strike, which began Sept. 8.

Ohio Gov. George Voinovich drives the first Dodge Dakota off Chrysler Corp.’s assembly line at the Stickey Avenue plant in Toledo. The pick-ups are the first non-Jeep vehicles produced at the plant where 900 workers have been hired to build the trucks.

1978: Assistant Ohio Attorney General Bruce J. Rakay says questionable bingo operations in Mahoning and Trumbull counties make the area a primary trouble spot for enforcement of the state’s bingo laws.

The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel asks the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to order Ohio Edison Electric Co. to refund more than $10 million to its customers because the company knowingly delayed buying coal in the lead-up to a national coal strike.

U.S. Sen Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, speaks at the 75th anniversary of the Free Polish Krakusy Society in Youngstown, telling them that “More than 59 percent of Americans over 18 years of age are working, a higher percentage than ever before known in any society in history.”

1968: The state highway department is moving as rapidly as possible toward contracting for widening U.S. 224 to 5 lanes from state Route 7 east to Southern Boulevard to accommodate the Southern Park Mall that is now under construction.

There is an acute shortage of nursing home beds in Mahoning County with only 24 spaces in private nursing homes and practically none for extended- care patients under Medicare.

Robert Young of McDonald jumps for his life when the brakes failed on his steel-laden truck on a steep grade. It crashed into a dump truck driven by Charles Plate of Wellsville, who suffered cuts and abrasions.

1943: A Columbiana County grand jury reports that the Mahoning County Jail is dark, unclean and a fire hazard because confiscated slot machines block jail passageways. Columbiana County prisoners are housed in the Mahoning County lock-up.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus plays to its first audience of its Youngstown engagement after hundreds of spectators lined the Pennsylvania tracks at West Avenue to watch red wagons roll off freight cars.

McKelvey’s Downstairs Sale has women’s 100 percent wool pullovers for $3.98; toddlers snow suits for $6.98; ladies untrimmed coats for $19 and skunk-dyed opossum great coats for $73.