Today is Monday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2010. There are 144 days left in the year.

August 9, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1945: Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States explodes a nuclear device over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.

1842: The United States and Canada resolve a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.

1854: Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described Thoreau’s experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, is first published.

1902: Edward VII is crowned king of Britain following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

1910: The U.S. Patent Office grants Alva J. Fisher of the Hurley Machine Co. a patent for an electrically powered washing machine.

1930: Cartoon character Betty Boop makes her debut (as a dog-eared singer) in Max Fleischer’s animated short “Dizzy Dishes.”

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1985: Bruce Springsteen puts on a rock marathon at a packed Cleveland Municipal Stadium, opening with “Born in the USA,” closing with “Sherry Darling,” and singing 25 songs in between.

A committee appointed by Trumbull County Commissioner Anthony A. Latell Jr. to study the Trumbull County Nursing Home recommends that the aging facility be closed and its 12 residents moved.

Youngstown area lending institutions are advising potential homeowners to register for 9.8 percent, 30-year mortgages under the Ohio Housing Finance Agency’s low-interest home loan program.

1970: Nancy Shaw, a 1970 graduate of Canfield High School, leaves for Sweden, where she will spend a year as a Rotary Club exchange student.

Fifteen Boy Scouts from the Mahoning Valley Council and two leaders are at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, but local Scout executive M. Dean Johnson reports that their camp is far removed from where a 12-year-old scout from Michigan died of an unknown and feared communicable disease.

1960: A 1955 Plymouth stationwagon stolen from the Acme Steak Co. in 1955 is recovered by chance after state highway patrolmen practicing skin diving in a Poland Township quarry find it.

Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Battisti freezes all promotion lists in the Youngstown police and fire departments pending outcome of a suit filed by two veteran police officers challenging an ordinance that would force their retirement.

1935: The Boy Scouts National Jamboree scheduled for Washington has been called off because of the prevalence of infantile paralysis. About 110 local Scouts had been planning on attending.

About 2,000 men are certified in Youngstown for WPA work and are awaiting official word on when projects can start.