Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 240th day of 2008. There are 126 days left in the year. On this
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 240th day of 2008. There are 126 days left in the year. On this date in 1908, Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, is born near Stonewall, Texas.
In 1858, the second debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas takes place in Freeport, Ill. In 1859, Col. Edwin L. Drake drills the first successful oil well in the United States, near Titusville, Pa. In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blows up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claim some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra. In 1892, fire seriously damages New York’s original Metropolitan Opera House. In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes. In 1948, former U.S. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes dies in Osterville, Mass., at age 86. In 1962, the United States launches the Mariner 2 space probe, which flies past Venus in December 1962. In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, are killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.
August 27, 1983: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-17th, tells 464 graduates of Youngstown State University that perseverance is the lever that moves life’s obstacles, including those in the job market.
The Packard Electric Division of General Motors Corp. will supply wiring harnesses for the joint GM-Toyota car should the venture gain approval of the Federal Trade Commission.
August 27, 1968: Counselor Joseph Barolak and eight Youngs-town students arrive home after their ordeal in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. One of the students Susan Kalenitz, a Chaney High School student, managed to take some motion picture film of Soviet tanks in Prague, but destroyed them for fear of reprisals.
Dr. Fred L. Crockett, president of the Illinois NAACP, tells a dinner meeting of the Youngstown NAACP that black power can build Negro economic power and “improve the Negro’s self esteem.”
Two men working for the Ohio Contracting Demolition Co. are injured when a section of the old Sirbu Market Building at South and Front streets collapses. Robert Lewis and Peter Cehymour are taken to South Side Hospital for X-rays.
August 27, 1958: Defense lawyers for Dr. John E. Allgood ask for a new trial, claiming prejudice on the part of Common Pleas Judge John W. Ford. The lawyers accused the judge of hindering the defense by constant interruptions. Judge Ford said any questions he asked reflected his distress that any member of the medical profession should even be charged with performing an illegal abortion.
Herman J. Spoerer, chairman of the Community Chest, says the national recession has caused adverse economic conditions in Youngstown that are bound to affect the success of the Community Chest campaign.
Playing at the Warner Theater: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson and Judith Anderson.
August 27, 1933: The death toll attributed to tuberculosis reaches a new low in Ohio’s history, says Dr. H.G. Southard, state health director. The rate in 1932 was 55 per 100,000, compared to 102 in 1920.
Consolidation of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University to form one of the world’s greatest educational centers is being considered by faculty and trustees of the two institutions.
Samuel Untermyer, world famous corporation lawyer, divorce attorney and Zionist, will be the principal speaker at the first annual tri-state reunion of the B’nai B’rith at Idora Park. Between 15,000 and 20,000 are expected.