Today is Thursday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2003. There are 132 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2003. There are 132 days left in the year. On this date in 1878, the American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga, N.Y.
In 1831, former slave Nat Turner leads a violent insurrection in Virginia. He is later executed. In 1858, the famous debates between senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas begin. In 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin. In 1945, President Truman ends the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion in aid to America's allies during World War II. In 1959, President Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. In 1963, martial law is declared in South Vietnam as police and army troops begin a crackdown on Buddhist anti-government protesters. In 1982, a group of Palestinian guerrillas leaves Lebanon by ship under an evacuation plan mediated by the United States. In 1983, 20 years ago, Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, is shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport. In 1983, the musical play "La Cage Aux Folles" opens on Broadway. In 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapses in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
August 21, 1978: Ohio Attorney General William Brown will meet with law enforcement officials from five Eastern Ohio counties to discuss the possibility of establishing a new crime lab in the Youngstown area.
A 27-year-old Hermitage man is charged with the shooting death of Francis R. "Tico" Flack of Sharpsville, a former Shenango Valley undercover narcotics agent, whose body was found in Clarion County.
Flags at Ohio state buildings are at half-staff in tribute to Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice C. William O'Neill, who died of an apparent heart attack at 62.
August 21, 1963: Youngstown Airways, operator of the flying service at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, places an order for an estimated $10.4 million worth of jet-powered executive airplanes.
A blistering lecture and a mandatory visit to Mansfield Reformatory are part of a sentence given to an 18-year-old amateur boxer and his two companions after they enter no contest pleas in the brutal beating of a special police officer outside Mack's Roller Rink.
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August 21, 1953: Youngstown authorizes the engineering firm of Havens & amp; Emerson of Cleveland to draw detailed plans for a sewage treatment plant and interceptor sewer system.
Bishop Emmet M. Walsh announces plans to enlarge Ursuline High School to a 1,200-student capacity. He also says plans are being formulated for establishment of a second city high school on Youngstown's South Side.
A third Youngstown serviceman, missing since early in the Korean fighting, is reported by the Communists as having died in prison camp. He is Marine Sgt. William F. Hottinger, 28, of Scheetz St.
August 21, 1928: Paul A. Siple, 19-year-old Eagle Scout of Erie, Pa., is selected as the Boy Scout to accompany Commander Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic Expedition.
The Youngstown Nature Club proposes to Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan that the city cooperate with Mill Creek Park in creating a zoo. It is suggested that the Lily Pond area would be suitable for a deer park and the Bear's Den quarry would be ideal for containing bears.
Plans are complete to entertain more than 5,000 persons at the third annual All Lutheran Day at Idora Park.
Roy Randall, a native of Girard and widely known poster artist, dies in Chicago. He had been president of the Poster Artists Association of America for eight years.