Sunday, August 22, 2010
Today is Sunday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2010. There are 131 days left in the year.
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On this day in:
1485: England’s King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.
1851: The schooner America outraces more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that comes to be known as the America’s Cup.
1910: Representatives of Japan and Korea sign an annexation treaty under which Korea remains under Japanese control until the end of World War II.
1922: Irish revolutionary Michael Collins is shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.
1985: Fifty-five people die when fire breaks out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England.
1989: Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton is shot to death in Oakland, Calif. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson is later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.)
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1985: Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini announces his retirement from the ring. He’ll be devoting his time to Hollywood and TV ventures.
Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas Carney says he believes a city-county jail should get preference from the Ohio Building Authority over a state office building in Youngstown.
Atty. Thomas W. Ford and his wife, Dr. Joan Butler Ford, natives of Youngstown, will be the speakers at the summer commencement of Youngstown State University.
1970: Austintown and Brecksville police are investigating the gangland-type murder of Eugene Terlinger, 29, of Cleveland whose nude body was found in Metropolitan Park in Brecksville. His 1967 Buick was recovered by Austintown police in a parking lot at Mahoning Avenue and DeHoff Drive.
Five Youngstown men are among 55 indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland on charges involving draft dodging.
On stage at the Kenley Players in Warren, Bill Bixby and Leslie Gore in “There’s a Girl in My Soup.”
1960: Cuban military intelligence officers are reported questioning businessman William McClure, formerly of Youngstown, who was detained by Cuban police as he prepared to board an airliner for Miami.
Mahoning County commissioners are coming under criticism for signing a 20-year lease for space for the local relief office in a new building owned by industrialist Marvin Itts at Belmont and Park. The office has traditionally been downtown.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon has ordered his staff workers and volunteers to keep the religious issue completely out of his race for president against John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Roman Catholic.
1935: A murder victim found tied to a tree near the Lawrence-Butler County line is identified as Frank L. Blumquist, 43, of New Castle, an unemployed steamfitter.
Registration papers covering a plan to combine Republic Steel Corp. and the Corrigan, Mc- Kinney and Truscon steel companies are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The 40th annual reunion of the Welsh Pioneer Association of the Western Reserve draws 10,000 sons and daughters of Wales to Idora Park.
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