Today is Monday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2007. There are 98 days left in the year....

Today is Monday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2007. There are 98 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, Congress passes a Judiciary Act that provides for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.

In 1869, thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic known as "Black Friday" after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market. In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight. In 1948, Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist "Axis Sally," pleads not guilty in Washington, D.C., to charges of treason. (Gillars, later convicted, ends up serving 12 years in prison.) In 1957, the Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. In 1960, the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Va. In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratifies a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear testing. In 1976, Patricia Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (She is released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Carter.) In 1991, children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as "Dr. Seuss," dies in La Jolla, Calif., at age 87.

September 24, 1982: A new effort will be launched to interest some of the 72 political subdivisions in Mahoning and Trumbull counties in organizing a regional authority to take over ownership and operation of Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Robert Glenn is convicted of involuntary manslaughter and escape in the death of Deputy John Litch Jr. He will be eligible for parole in nine years. His brother, John Glenn, who organized the fatal escape, has been sentenced to death.

Kenneth Lambert, 44, is shot to death while trying to pacify a neighbor who was holding a bunch of young motorcyclists at bay with a rifle. The 27-year-old neighbor, who was angered by six to eight noisy motorcycles at the end of the street, is being held on a murder charge.

September 24, 1967: The specter of a plastic-body automobile that haunts Youngstown district steel firms and their 40,000 employees, apparently will not materialize in a big way in the foreseeable future. Only the Studebaker Avanti and Chevrolet Corvette have plastic or fiberglass bodies.

Col. Clair S. Hazell is the new commanding officer of the 910th Tactical Air Group at the U.S. Air Force Reserve Base at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Thomas J. Travers, vice president of Commercial Shearing & Stamping Co., will head the Industrial Corporate Division of the United Appeal for the second consecutive year.

September 24, 1957: Representatives of more than 50 families from Green and Beaver townships meet to fight establishment of a junk yard at Middletown Road and Route 46. Nearly 20 wrecked cars and eight Youngstown Transit Co. buses have been moved onto the lot over the period of a week.

Dr. Charles W. Bray, noted psychologist formerly of Youngstown, is named technical director of the Air Force Personnel and Training Research center at Lackland AF Base in Texas.

The steel base for the 600 foot tower that will beam channel 45 for station WKST-TV is destroyed when a 50,000 pound crane topple over onto it. Damage is estimated at $125,000.

September 24, 1932: Faced with a falling general tax duplicate, schoolmen throughout Ohio are trying to find some means of raising sufficient tax income to continue school programs without increasing the burden on the general taxpayer.

Downtown Youngstown stores report their best Saturday in many months as residents are exhibiting optimism on the heels of increased mill activity in the area.

Frank Hughes, superintendent of Mill Creek Park, says fires by picnickers will be prohibited unless rain comes soon. Hughes is concerned that vegetation is so dry that a spark could set off a fire that would quickly get out of control.