Years Ago

August 15, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2010. There are 138 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1057: Macbeth, King of Scots, is killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.

1769: Napoleon Bona-parte is born on the island of Corsica.

1914: The Panama Canal opens to traffic.

1935: Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when their airplane crashes near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.

1944: During World War II, Allied forces land in southern France in Operation Dragoon.

1945: Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announces in a prerecorded radio address that his country has accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.

1947: India becomes independent after some 200 years of British rule.

1960: The Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent of French rule.

1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in upstate New York.

1971: President Richard Nixon announces a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.

1998: Twenty-nine people are killed by a car bomb that tears apart the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claims responsibility.

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1985: The U.S. General Services Administration says it will move swiftly to negotiate a sale price for the Voyager Motel site, which it has chosen for a new federal courthouse in downtown Youngstown.

Back in the United States from a trip to South Africa, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Nathaniel Jones predicts that apartheid will be defeated by well-organized opposition there and throughout the world.

After two rapes, Youngstown area women are being warned not to be lured into a trap if their cars are struck from behind. Don’t stop; drive to the nearest police station, women are being told.

1970: Clarence Barnes, director of the Youngstown Urban League, proposes that a civilian police review board, which is opposed by most police agencies, be included in the Youngstown City Charter.

The last two sections of Interstate 80 in the Youngstown area are scheduled to be opened to traffic in September: one, Sept. 1, and the other, Sept. 15.

Three Youngstown area girls are among 18 finalists for Miss Teen Ohio: Dianne Bitonte, Rochelle Galip and Jeanie Yourchison.

1960: Mahoning County Welfare Director I.L. Feuer is elected national commander of the Jewish War Veterans during a convention in Miami.

Two Youngstown girls, ages 9 and 13, are in police custody after stealing a 1956 convertible and taking it for a joyride to visit friends in New Castle, Pa.

Mahoning County Coroner Dr. David Belinky rules murder-suicide in the deaths of Merlyn Hartley, 28, of Houston, Texas, who shot his 21-year-old bride, Shirley Hartley, in a New Middletown rooming house.

1935: Sheriff Ralph Elser spends a quiet evening at home while a crowd of 7,500 turns out at the Canfield Fairgrounds to bet and cheer for the greyhounds racing around the track. Elser had vowed to shut down gambling.

Armed with 65 warrants, state, county and city men raid 35 rum spots in Youngstown and Boardman.

Youngstown City Prosecutor William B. Spagnola resigns effective Sept. 12.