Today is Tuesday, Aug. 12, the 225th day of 2008. There are 141 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 12, the 225th day of 2008. There are 141 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, is killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blows up over England.

In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparks a move to impeach him as he defies Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War comes to an end. In 1953, the Soviet Union conducts a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb. In 1960, the first balloon satellite, the Echo 1, is launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1962, one day after launching Andrian Nikolayev into orbit, the Soviet Union also sends up cosmonaut Pavel Popovich; both men land safely Aug. 15.

August 12, 1983: The Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. will build a $3 million plant on a 10-acre site at the Youngstown Commerce Park for leasing to the American Sunroof Corp., which will convert Lordstown-built cars to convertibles.

The on-again, off-again Youngstown federal building and courthouse is on again, says U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, but the project has been trimmed from $10 million to $8.5 million.

August 12, 1968: More than 100 pottery workers apply for positions at the Royal China Corp. in East Palestine after the company announces it will resume production at Plant No. 1, which has been idle for two years.

Retired Methodist Bishop Wilbur Emery Hammaker, 92, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church from 1915 to 1936, and a lifelong advocate of temperance and prohibition, dies in the Presbyterian Medical Center in Denver.

About 1,300 people attend the inauguration of the week-long pilgrimage of Our Lady of Lebanon Shrine in North Jackson where Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone offers Mass.

August 12, 1958: Vincent J. DeNiro and S. Joseph “Sandy” Naples, kingpins in lottery operations in Youngstown, are not among the 88 people in Northeastern Ohio who purchased the new $50 gambling stamp from the federal government.

Eighteen Youngstown district Girl Scouts who attended the GSA National Camp Rockwood near Washington, D.C., tour the national Capitol and visit Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown.

Frank Yankovic and his orchestra play for dancing at the Idora Park Ballroom from 9 p.m. till 1 a.m. Admission, $1.50.

August 12, 1933: Corrine Porter, of 2402 Elm St., Youngstown, is crowned Miss Ohio during a pageant at Yankee Lake. Miss Porter was an obvious crowd favorite among the 11 contestants.

Maurice Francill, America’s radio wizard, demonstrates a remote-controlled automobile in W. Front Street in Downtown Youngstown. Francill is touring 30 American cities on his way to the World Fair.

Youngstown home owners may be prepared to pay about 50 cents a ton more for coal, bringing the price to $5.50 per ton for the higher grades.