Years Ago

August 1, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2010. There are 152 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1894: The First Sino-Japanese War erupts, the result of a dispute over control of Korea; Japan’s army routs the Chinese.

1935: The British movie thriller “The 39 Steps,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll, opens in the U.S.

1936: The Olympic games open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

1946: America’s Atomic Energy Commission is established.

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.

1981: The rock music video channel MTV makes its debut.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, a Youngstown native who is a member of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, will go to racially torn South Africa to observe the trial of 16 blacks charged with treason.

Five Youngstown area men are indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland on charges of making illegal fireworks at a clandestine factory in Beaver Township where nine people were killed an explosion in May.

1970: Elva Moser, a 17-year-old Canfield High School senior, is named Miss Teenage Youngstown. Runners-up are Rochelle Galip, Jeanie Yourchisin, Diane Bitonte and Denise Rupert.

Joe Adams, 26, of Youngstown, serving a six-to-33 year term in the Ohio Penitentiary for abducting a YSU coed at gunpoint, is stabbed to death by another inmate.

The Trumbull County Joint Vocational School Board of Education votes to place a $4.7 million bond issue and .2 mill operating levy on the Nov. 3 ballot.

1960: The Three Stooges play the Warner Theater in Youngstown. During a sidewalk interview with a Vindicator reporter, “Stooge” Larry Fine looks up to see a familiar face from Hollywood, Joe Marks, a Youngstowner and early associate of Samuel Warner when he and his brothers started Warner Bros. Studio.

A dynamite bomb, the first blast in the city since May 1959, damages the Hub Gardens at 1637 Hillman St. Owner Donald Quaranta says he has no explanation for the bombing.

1935: Mrs. Edward Franks, 45, of Fowler Township, Trumbull County, is rushed by airplane to University Hospital in Columbus for treatment of Addison’s disease, which until recently was untreatable and usually fatal.

Youngstown is rated as one of the best places in the nation to live, scoring 131 on a scale on which 100 was the average. Top in the nation was San Francisco at 219.

Youngstown Municipal Judge Henry Beckenbach sentences a 35-year-old Park Heights Avenue woman to 60 days in jail on a charge that she received relief payments while having substantial sums of money in the bank.