Years Ago

August 27, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2010. There are 126 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1859: Edwin L. Drake drills the first successful oil well in the United States, at Titusville, Pa.

1883: The island volcano Krakatoa blows up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claims some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.

1908: Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, is born near Stonewall, Texas.

1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.

1975: Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, dies in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.

1979: British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, are killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.

1989: The first U.S. commercial satellite rocket is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. — a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.

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1985: Youngstown and Mahoning County officials fail to persuade Jackson Township trustees to agree to a formula under which real estate and personal property taxes would be split between the city and township on a $33 million brewery proposed for an industrial park in Jackson Township.

Michael M. Malmer of Campbell, former head of the Youngstown Transit Co. and a specialist in the transportation field, dies at the age of 76.

1970: A three-man fact-finding committee recommends that the Youngstown City School District give its certificated employees pay raises of 8 percent, which would cost the district nearly $1 million a year.

Trumbull County Commissioner Robert Hagan says he will resign effective Oct. 1 to protest Probate Court Judge Reed Battin’s action in allocating $242,000 in West Branch Reservoir construction money to the operation of nine county departments.

1960: More than 100 delegates attend the 11th annual convention of the American Romanian Orthodox Youth at the American Romanian Orthodox Church, 626 Wick Ave.

Warren police open fire on three men fleeing from an attempted burglary of Duffy’s Tavern at 1434 W. Market St. A 27-year-old Youngstown man is killed, a Warren man is arrested and the third suspect escapes.

1935: While Cab Calloway was singing his trademark Hi-De-Ho in the Idora Park pavilion, someone stole $1,640 from Calloway’s coupe at the park.

Dr. Orvile Potts, Lawrence County coroner, rules suicide in the death of Theodore Carr, 21, of Volant, who took poison after being accused of some difficulty involving a girl in the vicinity. “I’m innocent,” the boy cried shortly before he died, Dr. Potts said.