Today is Friday, Aug. 8, the 221st day of 2008. There are 145 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Aug. 8, the 221st day of 2008. There are 145 days left in the year. On this date in 1974, President Nixon announces he would resign following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal.

In 1876, Thomas A. Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. In 1908, American statesman and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg is born in Chicago. In 1942, six convicted Nazi saboteurs who’d landed in the U.S. are executed in Washington, D.C.; two others are spared. In 1945, President Truman signs the United Nations Charter. In 1945, the Soviet Union declares war against Japan during World War II. In 1963, Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” takes place as thieves make off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes.

August 8, 1983: A strike by Ohio Bell employees shouldn’t affect local telephone service as long as customers avoid making operator-assisted calls, company officials say.

James R. Soda of Niles, a prominent contractor for more than 40 years and an avid outdoorsman, dies in South Side Hospital at the age of 69.

A year after “John Doe” was buried in grave No.1109 in Calvary Cemetery, he remains the only unidentified burial in the cemetery. The man’s body was found in a ditch along Western Reserve Road, a hit-skip victim, on Aug. 12, 1982. He was about 35 years old and buried in Calvary because Catholic medals were found on the body.

Butler, Wick & Co., a Mahoning Valley stock broker, opens its satellite office in the Southwoods Executive Centre in Boardman.

August 8, 1968: Boardman police surprise burglars at the Goodyear store on Boardman-Canfield Road and recover 23 television sets. The two burglars are being sought.

Four lawyers file petitions of candidacy for the Nov. 5 election to succeed county court Judge Edgar G. Diehm who announced he would not see re-election.

Van Johnson and Sheila MacRae star in “The Great Sebastians” at the Kenley Players in Warren.

Lalu Sabotin of Warren shoots four birdies for a three-under-par 67 in the first frond of the Ohio Public Links Golf Tournament at the Elms Country Club course in Massillon.

August 8, 1958: Harlan H. Curtis, president of General Motors, announces the recall of 100,000 laid off workers nationwide, including 1,000 at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren.

Members of Explorer Group 25 in Canfield leave for a two-week stay at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Among the scouts and leaders are Jeff Wartluft, Douglas McEwan, Ed Neff, Arthur Crawford, John Wartluft, Bill Brenner Jr, Bill Brenner Sr. and Douglas Wilson.

August 8, 1933: The National Recovery Act headquarters at the Youngstown Post Office receives 40 complaints from waitresses and other employees in local restaurants who say they are being charged $1 per day for meals plus fees for laundry and uniforms.

Waist deep in the water of Lake Milton, John Zaku, a 125-pound Youngstown barber, works for 30 minutes with his bamboo pole to land a 15 pound catfish, believed to be the biggest ever pulled from the lake.

More than 25,900 people attend Hungarian Day at Idora Park, and thousands of them witness the wedding of Miss Margaret Brogley and John Pinter in a colorful Hungarian ceremony.