Today is Tuesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2006. There are 131 days left in the...

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 Today is Tuesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2006. There are 131 days left in the year. On this date in 1485, England's King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses. In 1846, the United States annexes the Territory of New Mexico. In 1851, the schooner America outraces the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that comes to be known as the America's Cup. In 1910, Japan annexes Korea, which remains under Japanese colonial rule until 1945. In 1956, President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon are nominated for second terms in office by the Republican national convention in San Francisco. In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America. In 1978, President Jomo Kenyatta, a leading figure in Kenya's struggle for independence, dies; Vice President Daniel Arap Moi is sworn in as acting president. In 1985, 55 people die when fire breaks out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England. In 1986, Kerr-McGee Corp. agrees to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. In 1989, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton is shot to death in Oakland, Calif. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson is later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.) August 22, 1981: Country western singer Willie Nelson, who suffered a collapsed lung, has canceled his September performances, including one scheduled for the Canfield Fair. Sister Susan Schorsten of the Sisters of Humility of Mary is named executive director of the St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, succeeding Sister M. Consolata. Swimming, hiking, crafts and boating provide a five-day change of environment for 131 low-income children at Outdoor Adventure Camp at Camp Stambaugh. August 22, 1966: Four Youngstown area police characters are arrested by Geneva-on-the-Lake police after they attempted to crack a safe at the Cove Tavern. A former Canfield woman and her husband, both Peace Corps workers, are in Mus Province of Turkey, one of the hardest hit areas from an earthquake. The former Lois Middelsen and her husband, Ervin Rockhill, have been in Turkey for a year. The five living charter members of the Slovak Catholic Sokols Assembly 159 are given special recognition at the assembly's golden jubilee banquet in St. Elizabeth Parish Hall, Campbell. They are Michael Jaros, Joseph Seman, Paul Barios, Michael Borosko and Stephen Bartos. August 22, 1956: The Ohio Turnpike Commission rejects a complaint by the Ohio Hotel Association against the turnpike's refusal to list lodging places that do not accept Negro guests. The lists are handed out to motorists on request at toll booths. Thomas Barrett, 15, son of Youngstown Council President and Mrs. Richard Barrett, and another youth are injured when a automobile strikes their motorbike in E. Midlothian Blvd. at Rush Blvd. The Mahoning County Jail Building Commission chooses a dark Blue and cream color combination for the front and side trim of the jail under construction on W. Boardman St. August 22, 1931: Youngstown City Council passes an ordinance changing the name of Holmes Street to Fifth Avenue. The newly named street stretches from Federal Street to Madison Avenue. Struthers City Council discusses ways of aiding the city's poor through the winter. The city is spending $7,500 a month aid to the needy. The estate of George L. Fordyce, Youngstown merchant and ornithologist, is appraised at $147,656.