Today is Friday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2008. There are 131 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2008. There are 131 days left in the year. On this date in 1968, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.

In 1485, England’s King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses. In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrates his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1846, Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaims all of New Mexico a territory of the United States. In 1851, the schooner America outraces more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that comes to be known as the America’s Cup.

August 22, 1983: Ozell Jones, 25, formerly of Youngstown, is among those killed when Hurricane Alicia slams into Houston. His body was found in the Houston Ship Channel.

Unemployed taxpayers in Lawrence County are being given extensions of up to 12 months to pay their property taxes.

August 22, 1968: FBI agents file federal bank robbery charges against three South Side men in a robbery at the Newport Branch of People’s Bank in which $15,000 was taken. Witnesses gave police a description and license plate number of the getaway car, leading to the arrests. A lone bandit who got $1,000 in a separate robbery at the Dollar Savings Trust Co. branch at 1507 Market St. remains at large.

Eight Youngstown district students and their counselor are stranded in Prague, Czechoslovakia, after Soviet troops invade the nation.

John J. Power Jr., 57, president of “Automatic” Sprinkler in Youngstown, dies in New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, where he was taken after becoming ill while vacationing in Nantucket.

August 22, 1958: Three armed robbers force their way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Julian on Dean Avenue and terrorize the couple and their two children, 9 and 11 years old, before escaping with $300 in jewelry and cash. It was the 10th such home invasion in two years.

The government reports the cost of living in July set another record high, rising two-tenths of a percent to $123.9, based on the 1947 average of 100. The index has gone up 21 of the last 23 months.

August 22, 1933: Farmers in eastern Ohio are being forced to haul water for their own use and for their stock as many wells and small streams dry up due to a drought.

More than 100 representatives of 75 Youngstown retail merchants at the largest meeting of merchants ever held in the city pledge their support for the National Recovery Act.

Two cases of infantile paralysis are reported, one in Youngstown and one in Mahoning County. City health authorities are informed of the death a week ago in Wheeling of Mrs. C.E. Roberts, 28, of Midlothian Boulevard.