Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2009. There are 152 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, an uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasts two months before collapsing.

In 1714, Britain’s Queen Anne dies at age 49; she is succeeded by George I. In 1876, Colorado is admitted as the 38th state. In 1894, the First Sino-Japanese War erupts, the result of a dispute over control of Korea; Japan’s army routs the Chinese. In 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force. In 1933, the National Recovery Administration’s “Blue Eagle” symbol begins to appear in store windows and on packages to show support for the National Industrial Recovery Act. In 1936, the Olympic games open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman signs the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Sen. William J. Fulbright. America’s Atomic Energy Commission is established. In 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, goes on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas in Austin, killing 14 people. Whitman, who had also murdered his wife and mother hours earlier, is gunned down by police. In 1981, the rock music video channel MTV makes its debut. In 2007, the eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, collapses into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour, kill ing 13 people.

August 1, 1984: A metal plaque is installed at the north end of the Market Street Bridge designating it the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge.

The chairman of the civil engineering department at Youngstown State University is robbed and stabbed twice in the first major daylight assault on campus in at least a decade. Dr. Jack D. Bakos Jr., 43, is in serious condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

The Western Reserve Transit Authority is proposing to bus 4,000 Warren public school students and provide trolley runs in the downtown area.

August 1, 1969: Stephen Armstrong, father of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the assistant director of the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction, visits Woodside Hospital in Youngstown to finalize purchase of 2 acres adjacent to the hospital for expansion. The elder Armstrong says he has not yet talked to his famous son since the astronaut returned from the moon.

Brian Birmingham, 12, of Columbiana beats Dennis Tomory in a photo finish in the Class A race of the Youngstown Soap Box Derby.

The Ohio Bell Telephone Co. seeks an increase of $1.60 a month for residential telephone service that would bring the rate for a single line in Youngstown to $6.80 a month.

August 1, 1959: Some of the top names in MARC stock car racing, including Nelson Stacy of Cincinnati, are entered in the late-model races at the Canfield Speedway. Running is restricted to 1957, 58 and 59 models.

Rex Humbard, pastor of the Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron, brings his “Canvas Cathedral” to a site at 3132 Belmont Ave., a half mile north of Gypsy Lane.

More than 200 members of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority from Columbiana, Mahoning and Stark counties attend the fourth annual conference in the United Presbyterian Church of East Palestine.

August 1, 1934: Two thousand Boy Scouts representing 80 troops in the Mahoning Valley Scout Council join the effort to collect signatures in support of a Mahoning-Beaver rivers canal.

The new home of American Legion Post 15 at 34 Spring St. will be dedicated Aug. 26. There will be a drum corps competition between 10 Legion corps at South High stadium the night before.

Spectators rush the field over a disputed umpire’s call in a game between two girls teams at Evans Field. Police are summoned to subdue the crowd and the game is called.