Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2009. There are 135 days left in the year. On this date in 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., which had fallen behind schedule, finally winds to a close after three nights with a midmorning set performed by Jimi Hendrix.
In 1587, Virginia Dare becomes the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina. (However, the colony Virginia is born into ends up mysteriously disappearing.) In 1838, the first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government sets sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews travels the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information. In 1846, U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny capture Santa Fe, N.M. In 1894, Congress establishes the Bureau of Immigration. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, is ratified as Tennessee becomes the 36th state to approve it. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicate the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada. In 1958, the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov is first published in New York by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, almost three years after it was originally published in Paris.
August 18, 1984: A Tall Ship Weekend opens in Ashtabula with the arrival of the USS Providence, a replica of the Navy’s first war ship.
Rep. Norman D’Amours, D-N.H., says a Reagan administration study recommending immediate action to combat acid rain has been suppressed for six months.
Pennsylvania State Police using a helicopter locate three crops of marijuana in Shenango Township, Lawrence County. Police say they pulled up more than 500 plants.
August 18, 1969: Two fires within a half-hour, one of them a two-alarm blaze at the I.A. Barnett Co. on Jones Street, keep 11 Youngstown Fire Department trucks and crews busy.
A 15-year-old Niles youth is in fair condition in Trumbull Memorial Hospital after being shot twice with a 12 gauge shotgun by police responding to a burglar alarm at the Stambaugh-Thompson store on Youngstown-Warren Road.
Joseph Naples, Youngstown rackets figure, is challenging a U.S. government demand for $341,016 in taxes.
August 18, 1959: The city of Youngstown’s general fund lost about $1,700 in parking meter revenue and an unknown amount from unwritten parking tickets during Mayor Frank X. Kryzan’s week-long unlimited parking experiment.
A federal appropriations bill contains funds to complete planning for reservoirs on the West Branch of the Mahoning and on the Shenango rivers.
The Pennsylvania Legislature approves a bill banning the sale of plastic bags of the type which resulted in the suffocation of several youngsters in the state.
August 18, 1934: An estimated 10,000 Pennsylvanians and Ohioans attend the dedication of the Pymatuning Dam, after which Pennsylvania Gov. Gifford Pinchot and his official party took a motor boat ride on the lake.
The state relief commission in Columbus authorizes the expenditure of $19,377 to establish a mattress factory in Warren.
Ten women, three of them incumbents and one a former member, will seek election to the Ohio House of Representatives in November.