Years Ago

August 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2010. There are 143 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1680: Pueblo Indians launch a successful revolt against Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico.

1792: During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attack the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resides. (The king is later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed the following January.)

1809: Ecuador strikes its initial blow for independence from Spain. (Ecuador achieves independence in 1822.)

1821: Missouri becomes the 24th state.

1846: President James K. Polk signs a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.

1874: Herbert C. Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, is born in West Branch, Iowa.

1921: Franklin D. Roose-velt is stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.

1949: The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense.

1969: Leno and Rosemary LaBianca are murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.

1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

2000: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, defying the United States by being the first head of state to visit Iraq since the Gulf War.

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1985: Four people who came forward with information that helped lead to the arrest of the man who stabbed Youngstown State University Professor Jack D. Bakos in 1984 share rewards of $6,800.

The Rev. John Polanski, member of the Ursuline High School faculty since 1980, is named director of St. Joseph Newman Center, the Catholic ministry serving the Youngstown State University community.

Summer enrollment at Youngstown State University increases slightly from 5,766 in 1984 to 5,727. In 1985.

1970: The ABC state baseball tournament being held in the Youngstown area draws the attention of Major League scouts. Attending a game at Roosevelt Park are scouts from the Orioles, Cardinals, Indians, Dodgers, Twins, Pirates, Royals, Astros and Cubs.

A resolution to rename West Branch Reservoir on the Mahoning River the Michael J. Kirwan Dam and Reservoir is introduced in the House by Rep. Frank T. Bow, R-Ohio.

Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin rules that the various subdivisions in the 19th congressional district, which include Youngstown, Campbell and Struthers, must pay the costs of a special primary election Sept. 22 to fill the seat of Michael J. Kirwan.

1960: Allowing television cameras and radio microphones in the courtroom will distract from the purpose of a trial, Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Battisti tells the North Side Kiwanis Club at its regular meeting at the Twentieth Century Restaurant.

A manual on the proper treatment of minority groups by police on official duty, “With Justice for All,” is presented to the Youngstown Police Department by six civic organizations.

Campbell and Struthers city officials have decided to cooperate with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in the firm’s plan to install new facilities that will temporarily emit more smoke.

1935: Sheriff Ralph E. Elser vows to stop greyhound racing at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

Federal officers led by E.E. Goldy seize two 50-gallon barrels of bootleg rum at the home of Albert Oliva on Marshall Road in McDonald.

Writing about “Why I Like to Trade at my Favorite Food Store,” the Rev. and Mrs. N.B. Mathes of Sheridan Road, Youngstown, win a new Chevrolet from the Cudahey Packing Co. They shop in the grocery department of the G.M. McKelvey Co.