Today is Saturday, Aug. 16, the 229th day of 2008. There are 137 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Aug. 16, the 229th day of 2008. There are 137 days left in the year. On this date in 1977, Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.

In 1777, American forces win the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington. In 1812, Detroit falls to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812. In 1858, a telegraphed message from Britain’s Queen Victoria to President Buchanan is transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable. In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth dies in New York at age 53. In 1954, Sports Illustrated is first published by Time Inc. In 1956, Adlai E. Stevenson is nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In 1960, Britain cedes control of the crown colony of Cyprus. In 1978, James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tells a Capitol Hill hearing he did not commit the crime, saying he’d been set up by a mysterious man called “Raoul.” In 1987, 156 people are killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes while trying to take off from Detroit. In 2000, delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominate Al Gore for president. In 1998, Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland unite in uncomprehending grief over the car bomb slaughter of 29 people in Omagh a day earlier; a day before President Clinton is to face a criminal grand jury concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, his lawyer says, “The truth is the truth, and that’s how the president will testify.”

August 16, 1983: Two Florida executives are indicted on federal charges alleging they illegally tried to gain control of a Tampa, Fla., bank in which developer Edward J. DeBartolo was the principal stockholder.

Sam Mravich. 66, a Youngstown Steel Door retiree, wins half the $1.4 million Ohio Lotto Jackpot. A Cleveland man wins the other half.

The Struthers Board of Education approves an 8.4 percent raise for teachers, increasing the base salary from $13,000 to $14,100.

August 16, 1968: A customer is shot in the stomach three times as he attempts to leave the scene of a hold-up at the Dog House at 502 Crandall Avenue. The two robbers escape with an undetermined amount of cash.

The Ursuline sisters adopt substantial changes in their garb, allowing nuns to select from between the traditional long habit, an ankle length modification or a pleated skirt that falls three inches below the knee with black jacket.

Gary Holub, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Holub of Struthers dies in South Side Hospital, nine days after being severely burned along with his aunt, uncle and two cousins at his relatives West Side home.

August 16, 1958: FBI agents thwart an attempt to extort $50,000 from millionaire industrialist L.A. Beeghly, arresting a 33-year-old South Side man who allegedly sent Beeghly a threat of “your money or the lives of you and your family.”

Embrel Davidson, a 30-year-old former boxer from Youngstown, tells a U.S. Senate committee investigating union racketeering, that he collected $75 a week from a Michigan Teamsters Welfare Fund without doing any work. He was boxing at the time under the management of Union President James Hoffa and vice president Owen Brennan.

Sales of Youngstown department stores in the week ended Aug. 9 were 10 percent under the same week a year earlier.

August 16, 1933: Three National Recovery Act workers in Youngstown warn merchants that boycotts could be launched against companies that do not agree to wage and hour provisions of the NRA.

The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce throws its full support behind the city traffic department, the city’s public traffic committee and other agencies seeking to make Youngstown safer for pedestrians and motorists.

More than,1,400 boys and girls of Trumbull 4-H clubs will participate in the Trumbull County Junior Fair that will be held in Warren.