Today is Sunday, Aug. 1, the 214th day of 2004. There are 152 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, an uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation, a revolt that lasts two
Today is Sunday, Aug. 1, the 214th day of 2004. There are 152 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, an uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation, a revolt that lasts two months before collapsing.
In 1790, the first United States census is completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people. In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tests a cable car he has designed for the city of San Francisco. In 1894, the First Sino-Japanese War erupts, the result of a dispute over control of Korea; Japan's army routed the Chinese. In 1936, the Olympic games open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. In 1946, President Truman signs the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Senator William J. Fulbright. In 1966, 25-year-old Charles Joseph Whitman shoots and kills 15 people at the University of Texas before he is gunned down by police. In 1981, the rock music video channel MTV debuts.
August 1, 1979: Trumbull Count commissioners authorize the issuance of $4 million in Industrial Development Revenue Bonds to enable RI Co. of Niles to borrow funds for expansion.
More production cutbacks are being considered at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in light of a growing inventory of finished parts at the plant. As many as 4,000 employees could be furloughed over the next month.
August 1, 1964: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. announces that pleasure drivers in Mahoning and Trumbull counties will get slight deductions in their auto insurance rates, but commuters will pay a few dollars more every six months for their coverage.
A 150-pound safe containing an undetermined amount of cash and upwards of 50,000 Plaid trading stamps is stolen from Weddell's Sohio Service Station at 505 N. Main St., Niles.
Diana Baker is crowned queen of the Vienna Firemen's Festival by Kit Johnson, the 1953 queen.
August 1, 1954: Boardman Township Park's six-week supervised recreational program ends with 1,769 children taking part, an average of 63 daily, Park Supt. Charles E. Wedekind reports.
More than an inch of rain falls in Youngstown during a series of thunderstorms that flooded sewers and cellars and turned streets into little lakes. The rain capped a month of July that saw a total of only 1.5 inches of rain in the area, the driest on record since 1914, when 1.42 inches was recorded.
August 1, 1929: Youngstown police will take steps to prevent any outbreaks or traffic tie-ups at the celebration in Central Square of Anti-War Day by Youngstown Communists. Thousands of pamphlets advertising the mass demonstration were distributed at the gates of Youngstown mills and factories.
Three Youngstown area Smith brothers have all taken wives named Smith. Carson J. Smith, wholesale confectioner, and H. Trude Smith, contractor, married sisters Mary D. and Elizabeth B. Smith. Their brother, W.D. Smith, local grocer, has now married Laura Smith, sister of the other two Mrs. Smiths.
The Youngstown planning commission will require all persons applying for a building permit to submit plans and specifications before a permit is issued. The rule is aimed at stopping the erection of two-family houses in single-family areas.
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