Years Ago

August 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2010. There are 130 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1305: Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace is executed by the English for treason.

1775: Britain’s King George III proclaims the American colonies in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”

1914: Japan declares war against Germany in World War I.

1927: Amid protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

1960: Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, 65, dies in Doylestown, Pa., nine months after the opening of his final collaboration with composer Richard Rodgers, “The Sound of Music.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Girard Municipal Court Judge Anthony Bernard, sitting in Youngstown Municipal Court, dismisses a drunken driving charge against Atty. Don L. Hanni Jr. on the grounds that there is no proof that Hanni, who went to a nearby bar after ramming his car into the downtown Post Office, was intoxicated while driving.

Teachers set up picket lines outside all Girard public schools after voting 90-1 to authorize a strike against the school district.

1970: The Mahoning County Board of Elections will give citizens a wide opportunity to register and be qualified for balloting, establishing 16 temporary registration centers, many in fire stations.

The body of a 21 year-old Youngstown State University student is found in an abandoned car at St. Elizabeth Hospital after an anonymous call to police. The man, whose address was a YSU fraternity house, is believed to have died of a drug overdose.

1960: Boys and girls entering the Youngstown schools for the first time in September must have their immunization shots, J. Wesley Pollock, supervisor of health services, warns.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan leaves Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he was treated for shingles, and plunges into work as a conferee on the public works appropriation bill.

1935: Youngstown officials expect 35,000 pupils at the district’s 57 school buildings when classes open. The city school district has 1,086 teachers on staff.

Police Chief Leroy Goodwin suspends Sgt. Ted Heden for 10 days after Heden strikes a parked car in Glenwood Avenue while driving a city vehicle.