Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2003. There are 126 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2003. There are 126 days left in the year. On this date in 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blows up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claims some 36,000 lives.
In 1770, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born in Stuttgart. In 1892, fire seriously damages New York's original Metropolitan Opera House. In 1894, Congress passes the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contains a provision for a graduated income tax that is later struck down by the Supreme Court. In 1908, Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, is born near Stonewall, Texas. In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes. In 1945, American troops begin landing in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II. In 1962, the United States launches the Mariner II space probe, which flies past Venus the following December. In 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, is found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
August 27, 1978: Since President Carter announced his new urban policy in March, cities in the North and South have been waging a battle for federal funds. Typical are Youngstown, which is attempting to stimulate growth, and Charlotte, which is attempting to accommodate it.
Youngstown State University will begin acquiring property east of Wick Avenue again. Acquisitions in that area were suspended in 1976 after a controversy arose over Smoky Hollow properties needed for the new parking deck.
Albino Luciani, the product of one of the thousands of villages that dot the Italian countryside where the simple life prevails, is named the 263rd Roman Catholic pope. He takes the name John Paul I.
August 27, 1963: Henry Throne, 28, and David Fellin, 58, are lifted up a 300-foot rescue shaft from a mine near Hazelton, Pa., where they had bee trapped for 14 days. A third miner, Louis Bova, 42, who had been separated from the other two when the mine collapsed, is missing. The long rescue attempt had captured worldwide attention.
Altha McGlothen, 2-year-old daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Arthur McGlothen of Summer St., dies after striking her head when she falls while trying to climb to the top of a kitchen cabinet.
Ohio Atty. Gen. William Saxbe advises Mahoning County Prosecutor Clyde Osborne that the creation of new municipal courts in Struthers and Campbell will not eliminate any of the five existing county judgeships. In Trumbull County, a fourth county judgeship was added, as well as municipal courts in Newton Falls and Girard.
August 27, 1953: The 20th annual performance of Tom Pemberton's Two Ring Circus at Shady Run Field draws a crowd of 4,000 to see more than 500 youngsters from Youngstown's 27 playgrounds stage the traditional grand finale to summer playground activity. Park Superintendent Pemberton proclaims it "the best circus we've had."
Lauren D. Woodworth, 53, of 3033 Kiwatha Drive, is named general superintendent of U.S. Steel Corp.'s Youngstown District plants, succeeding Edwin H. Gott.
Three more Youngstown district men are identified as prisoners of war who have been released by North Korean Communists. They are Cpl. James Maravola of Youngstown, Pfc. Charles Galazia of Lowellville and Cpl. Albert Chestnut of Farrell, Pa.
August 27, 1928: Miss Katherine Locke, globetrotter, authoress and lecturer, returns to her Bryson Street home in Youngstown from a two-year, 18,000-mile African tour.
A birthday party in Girard ends in the brutal slaying when one of the guests objected to the way his wife was dancing with the husband of the guest of honor. Police are searching for James Moderferi in the shooting death of Harry Petterson.
A warrant charging first-degree murder is filed against John Preston, alleged slayer of Tony Caputo. Preston had been in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a bullet wound of the leg since the night of the gunbattle in which Caputo died.