Years Ago

August 26, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, Aug. 26, the 238th day of 2010. There are 127 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

55 B.C.: Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain, but achieve limited success.

1883: The island volcano Krakatoa begins cataclysmic eruptions, leading to a massive explosion the following day.

1910: Humanitarian and Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa is born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (in present-day Skopje), Macedonia.

Thomas Edison demonstrates for reporters an improved version of his Kinetophone, a device for showing a movie with synchronized sound.

1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote, is certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.

1958: Alaskans go to the polls to overwhelmingly vote in favor of statehood.

1961: The original Hockey Hall of Fame is opened in Toronto.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson is nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic national convention in Atlantic City, N.J.

1968: The Democratic national convention opens in Chicago.

1972: The summer Olympics games open in Munich, West Germany.

1978: Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice is elected pope following the death of Paul VI. The new pontiff takes the name Pope John Paul I. (However, he dies just over a month later.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Two Youngstown Civil Service commissioners reject a claim by Youngstown Law Director Edwin Romero that they are biased against the city and refused to disqualify themselves from hearing the appeals of 13 fired municipal employees.

Nappy M. Hetzler, administrator of state purchasing, says Gov. Richard Celeste’s “Buy Ohio” policy has protected Ohio jobs while not significantly adding to the cost of state government.

Spence Management Services Inc. of Warren, owner of 13 Burger King restaurants in northeast Ohio, is building an employee training center next to its corporate office on North Road.

The Crago Veterinary Clinic begins construction of a new half-million-dollar clinic at 7077 West Blvd. in Boardman.

1970: The Youngstown Board of Control approves purchase of more than $250,000 worth of property in the Central Business District Urban Renewal Project Area.

Four suburban teenagers are under arrest after Boardman Patrolman Stephen Balog smells marijuana and notices drug paraphernalia in their van after making a routine traffic stop.

About 40 long-distance operators at Ohio Bell Telephone Co.’s Youngs-town office walk off the job over management’s handling of a grievance.

Robert E. Lenkner, principal of Commodore Perry High School, is named dean of students at Thiel College in Greenville, Pa.

1960: Mrs. Wilford P. Arms of 648 Wick Ave., one of Youngstown’s most prominent residents and a descendant of pioneer families, dies at her home. She was 95.

Establishment of a new Friends Church in Poland is discussed at the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends in Damascus.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican candidate for the vice presidency, will officially open the Mahoning County Republican campaign and make a major political speech at Idora Park on Sept. 23.

1935: Steel production snaps back to close to 60 percent when two more open hearths are brought on.

State police and Lawrence County Sheriff Edward D. Prichard believe they have wiped out the last vestiges of the “bug” in New Castle with a raid on a numbers bank and the arrest of five men.

Charles H. Owsley, Youngstown architect and designer of the Mahoning County and Mercer County courthouses, dies of pneumonia at his residence at 238 Broadway. He was 88.

Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and one of the most severe critics of Roosevelt’s New Deal, is being sought by the Mahoning County Republican Party as a speaker for Constitution Day in Youngstown.