Years Ago

August 8, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2010. There are 145 days left in t he year.

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1974: Following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal, President Richard M. Nixon announces that he will resign, and that Vice President Gerald R. Ford will succeed him.

1815: Napoleon Bona-parte sets sail for St. Helena to spend the remain-der of his days in exile.

1876: Thomas A. Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

1942: Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who’d landed in the U.S. are executed in Washington, D.C.; two others are spared.

The Soviet Union declares war against Japan during World War II.

1953: The United States and South Korea initial a mutual security pact.

1963: Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” takes place as thieves make off with 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.

1968: The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard M. Nixon for president on the first ballot.

1973: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew brands as “damned lies” reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland, and vows not to resign — which he ends up doing.

1978: The U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 2, which carries scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.

1994: Israel and Jordan open the first road link between the two once-warring countries.

2000: Vice President Al Gore formally introduces his running mate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, during an appearance in Gore’s home state of Tennessee.

A bomb rips through an underground walkway in central Moscow, killing at least 13 people.

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1985: First Federal Sav- ings of Pittsburgh says it will sell the Voyager Motel in downtown Youngstown to the federal government for use as the site of a federal courthouse.

Walter Pyle, treasurer of Youngstown City School District, says an influx of state funds included in Ohio’s biennial budget, will allow the district to avoid a $3 million deficit. About $1 million of the city school district’s shortfall is caused by a $29 million reduction in the valuation of LTV Steel Corp. inventory.

Former Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley recommends sweeping changes to the Youngstown Home Rule Charter, including increasing the term of office for the mayor and councilmen to four years.

1970: Anthony J. Julius Jr., 47, a professor of physics and astronomy at Youngstown State University, drowns in a motel swimming pool near Massena, N.Y.

Lalu Sabotin of Warren becomes the first man to win the Ohio Public Links Golf Tournament title four times, shooting a 72-hole total of 292 in Springfield, Ohio.

The Mahoning Valley Regional Mass Transit Authority and Mayor Jack C. Hunter reach an agreement with Sam Wino- grad, owner of the Youngstown Transit Co., to continue bus service for 90 days.

1960: Two Mercer County boys suffocate when a cave they were digging at an abandoned quarry collapses on them. Dead are Raymond T. Price, 9, of Carlton and Daniel V. Latchaw Jr., 8, of Cochranton.

A $25,000 fire destroys a barn, an English show horse and her filly, and 800 bales of hay at the home of Albert L. Thompson on Leffingwell Road.

Mahoning County commissioners approve the purchase of voting machines and supplies for $295,504.

1935: Four armed thugs rob a dairy store at 1408 Market St., escaping with $100 from the store and seven patrons.

Sidney Kline, a member of Troop 19 at Rodef Sholem Temple, will cover the highlights at the Boy Scout Jamboree at Washington for The Vindicator. Kline is an Eagle Scout.

Youngstown traffic cops continue their crackdown on reckless drivers, citing 11 in a day and bringing the total to 39.