YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 26

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2018. There are 96 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1777: British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.

1789: Thomas Jefferson is confirmed by the Senate to be the first United States secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.

1955: After word that President Dwight Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange sees its worst price decline since 1929.

1960: The first televised debate between presidential nominees takes place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon face off before a national audience from Chicago.

1986: William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the U.S., while Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.

2013: It is revealed that some workers at the National Security Agency had misused the government’s secret surveillance systems at least 12 times over the previous decade.

2017: Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee announces he will not seek re-election.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Wyatt McKay is getting fan mail from around the country after being featured by Chicago columnist Mike Royko for the tongue-lashing McKay gave while sentencing a child rapist.

John Senzarin, president of the 1,000-member Youngstown Teachers Association, says Superintendent Alfred Tutela has contributed to the 19-day strike by ignoring the district’s teachers since he arrived 14 months ago.

Treasurers of Mahoning and Trumbull counties say they use recognized banking institutions to buy government securities, unlike Columbiana County, where Treasurer Ardel Stabala used his son as a private investment adviser and where $6 million is missing.

1978: Martin Kazy Jr., 32, who taught flying at the former Lyn-Mark Aviation Co. in Milton Township, was the instructor on a Cessna 172 that collided with a Boeing 727 passenger jet over San Diego, causing both planes to crash with the loss of 135 people on the airliner, Kazy and his student pilot and 10 people from debris on the ground.

Gov. James A. Rhodes breaks ground for the $13 million Albert Street-Market Street link of Youngstown’s arterial highway system.

Twenty-seven Austintown Police Department officers, members of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 126, walk off the job between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. in their efforts to reach a contract with township trustees.

1968: A $30,000 appropriation from the general fund to permit a financial feasibility study of a new terminal at Youngstown Municipal Airport is approved by City Council. Councilman Pete Starks voted against the measure, saying some city areas are still without sewers.

A 17-year-old Champion High School student, Frank Konopka, dies after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Route 45 near Route 305.

Frank Gibb, director of compliance for the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, says the Newton Falls Board of Education has been found guilty of discrimination in denying a Catholic the post of school superintendent.

1943: One hundred posters are being printed to advertise the lecture of the Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, Catholic educator, writer and radio personality, at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Berlin Lake saved the Mahoning Valley from a devastating flood last winter and now is saving the Valley from a severe drought, which would have seriously reduced the output of war steel.

Sheriff Ralph Elser and five deputies swoop into a gambling den, the Victory Cafe on South Avenue, interrupting games in progress and taking the proprietor and 25 patrons to the County Jail for questioning.