Years Ago

August 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2010. There are 135 days left in the year.

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On this day in:

1587: Virginia Dare becomes the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina. (However, the Roanoke colony ends up mysteriously disappearing.)

1838: The first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government sets sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews travels the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information.

1846: U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captures Santa Fe, N.M.

1894: Congress establishes the Bureau of Immigration.

1910: Floral delivery service FTD begins under the name Florists’ Telegraph Delivery (the “T” now stands for “Transworld”).

1920: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, is ratified as Tennessee becomes the 36th state to approve it.

1938: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicate the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

1958: The novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov is first published in New York by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, almost three years after it was originally published in Paris.

1963: James Meredith becomes the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

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1985: Bernie Kosar makes his NFL debut as the Cleveland Browns host the Philadelphia Eagles. Kosar plays the first half of the Browns’ 28-14 victory.

A study by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office lists 35 downtown Youngstown buildings as having historic significance.

Howard and Susan Welch of Struthers organize a local chapter of Victims for Victims, an advocacy group for victims of violent crime.

1970: A female robber wearing a red wig robs the Lawson Dairy Store in Campbell, the second time in three days she targeted a Lawson store.

Browning-Ferris Industries of Houston, Texas, purchases City Ash Inc. of Youngstown in a stock exchange worth more than $1 million.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Elwyn Jenkins, 52, is chosen to be the Republican candidate for the 7th District Court of Appeals.

1960: The Kelley & Meer Co. of Youngstown and Gennaro Pavers of Hillsville, Pa., will share the city’s controversial $135,000 road resurfacing program.

Ohio registers its first polio death of 1960, a Medina County boy.

State Sen. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown offers a bill in the Ohio Legislature that would require uninsured motorists to pay into an “unsatisfied claim and judgment fund.”

1935: D.T. Peters, president of the Youngstown Real Estate Board, says about 40 homes are being built in the Youngstown area at a cost of $6,000 to $10,000 each.

A House of Representatives committee agrees to a Senate committee amendment that provides for construction of a waterway all the way from the Ohio River to Lake Erie, rather than just as far as Struthers.

A marble memorial to Scott M. Vasbinder, Newton Falls constable who was murdered in the discharge of his duty, is erected in Newton Falls cemetery by the Knights of Pythias of Trumbull, Ashtabula, Mahoning and Columbiana counties.