YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 25

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2018. There are 97 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1690: One of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, publishes its first – and last – edition in Boston.

1775: American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen is captured by the British as he leads an attack on Montreal.

1789: The first U.S. Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments become the Bill of Rights.)

1957: Nine black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds are escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

1981: Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

2008: Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama sit down with President George W. Bush at the White House to discuss a multibillion-dollar Wall Street bailout plan, but the session, which also included top congressional leaders, devolves into what the McCain campaign described as a “contentious shouting match.”

2017: Former congressman Anthony Weiner is sentenced to 21 months behind bars for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.

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1993: Striking Youngstown teachers reduce their salary demands, seeking an increase in a teacher’s base pay from $20,662 to $27,679 over three years. They had sought a base pay of $31,577 while the board is offering $22,780.

Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District hires Mahoning River Basin Hydrologic Environment Research, a nonprofit YSU civil-engineering research company, to determine the best way of dredging Lake Newport.

Stephen J. Yovich Jr., Trumbull County’s director of environmental health, asks the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the extent and source of pollution in a McKinley Heights creek near Robbins Avenue and U.S. Route 422.

1978: Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle, Pa., announces plans to renovate all 254 patient rooms.

With the opening of fall classes at Youngstown State University, it appears that enrollment will be in the range of 15,500 and 15,800, close to that of last fall, President John J. Coffelt reports.

Youngstown State University Penguins explode for seven touchdowns in two quarters to batter Ashland College, 58-7, and remain unbeaten for the season.

1968: John M. Hudzik, a YSU professor and president of Youngstown City Council, says “No free society can exist unless it has an intelligent electorate for the foundation of democracy rests in our educational process.” Hudzik is vice chairman of a campaign for passage of a Youngstown school levy.

A sudden thunderstorm lashed sections of Youngstown with heavy rain and powerful wind gusts disrupting power in scattered sections. A heavy tree demolished a two-car garage owned by Irwin Klein of Selma Avenue.

The Hungarian Freedom Fighters of Cleveland endorses former Alabama Gov. George Wallace for president, saying he is the only candidate who “will save America from anarchy and turn back the Communist tide.”

1943: Mrs. Ernest Heller and Mrs. George Finnegan are members of the women’s WAVES unit of Navy Citizens’ Committee, which will help enlist girls for the Youngstown WAVES Victory Platoon.

Both Youngstown mayoral candidates, Democrat Ralph O’Neill and Republican Arthur Williams, declare they can live on the mayor’s salary of $7,200 a year and will take no racket money.

Sparked by Tony Siciliano, Bob Frederick and Frank Ferrare, Chaney High’s grid machine takes advantage of two golden opportunities to score in the opening and closing frames and hand Niles McKinley a 13-0 defeat.