Thursday, August 19, 2010
Today is Thursday, Aug. 19, the 231st day of 2010. There are 134 days left in the year.
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1812: The USS Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
1909: The first automobile races are run at the just-opened Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1934: A plebiscite in Germany approves the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
1955: Severe flooding in the northeastern U.S. claims some 200 lives.
1960: A tribunal in Moscow convicts American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage, two days after his 31st birthday. (Although sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, Powers is returned to the United States in 1962 as part of a prisoner exchange.)
1976: President Gerald R. Ford wins the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Kansas City.
1980: Three hundred and one people aboard a Saudi Arabian L-1011 die as the jetliner makes a fiery emergency return to the Riyadh airport.
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1985: Car haulers at the Anchor Motor Freight Co. in Lordstown join fellow drivers nationwide in ending a three-week strike by Teamsters.
Socrates Kolitsos is re-elected president of the board of directors of the Steel Valley Chapter of the National Management Association.
The 11th District Court of Appeals denies an appeal by Robert D. Parks of Youngstown, who is serving two life terms for the December 1977 murders of Patricia DiBlasio and Mary Muffley, the wife and nurse receptionist of Dr. Leo DiBlasio, who were shot outside DiBlasio’s Girard office.
1970: The Mahoning National Bank seizes a $19,000 account of the Youngstown Transit Co., leaving 75 of the company’s former employees with pay checks that can’t be cashed.
Youngstown’s Charter Revision Committee votes to create a new human relations department, but rejects a proposal to create a civilian police review board.
Zsa Zsa Gabor is held up at gunpoint near her Waldorf Towers suite and robbed of more than $500,000 in jewels.
1960: Irvin H. Ryan, labor liaison representative on the Community Chest staff since 1953, resigns to accept a position with organized labor. He will be succeeded by Archie J. Itts.
Youngstown city officials who visited U.S. Steel Corp.’s Fairless Works in Morrisville, Pa., find that despite more than $5 million spent on antismoke equipment, the open hearth shop of one of the world’s most modern steel works still spews out as much smoke as some old Youngstown open hearths.
A record crowd of 600 men enjoy clams, chicken and corn on the cob at the 14th St. Edward Mission Club clambake at the junior high school.
1935: A squat gunman sticks a pistol in the ribs of Mahoning County Deputy Treasurer Alfred J. Barnes as he walks from the courthouse to the bank with a deposit bag. The robber gets $5,800 in cash and $15,000 in checks.
Ellen Delisio, 17, of 338 Chalmers Avenue drowns in 9 feet of water at Lake Milton.
Charles H. Lute, 64, and two of his grandchildren, Charles W. Lute, 10, and June Lute, 7, are killed in a two-car crash a half mile north of Churchill.
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