Years Ago

August 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2010. There are 125 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1609: English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reach present-day Delaware Bay.

1774: Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint, is born in New York City.

1910: The Kingdom of Montenegro is proclaimed.

1947: Legendary bullfighter Manolete dies after being gored during a fight in Linares, Spain; he was 30.

1955: Emmett Till, a black teen- ager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally slain three days later.

1963: Two hundred thousand people participate in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

1973: More than 600 people die as an earthquake shakes central Mexico.

1988: Seventy people are killed when three Italian stunt planes collide during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.

1990: An F5 tornado strikes the Chicago area, killing 29 people.

1995: A mortar shell tears through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing some three dozen people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.

2000: Authorities in Peru announce that four years after military judges convicted American Lori Berenson of planning a rebel attack, the military has overturned her life sentence, clearing the way for a new civilian trial. (Berenson was later convicted of “terrorist collaboration” and sentenced to 20 years; she was paroled on May 27, 2010, but must remain in Peru until the sentence ends in November 2015.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., Mayor Patrick Ungaro and Councilman Richard Hughey say they’ll help get funding for a proposed $225,000 indoor swimming pool at the United Methodist Community Center.

A steering committee has been created by the Crawford County Historical Society to oversee the restoration of the 1922 racing boat Liberty the Second, which was salvaged from the bottom of Conneaut Lake.

1970: The Mahoning-Trumbull Council of Governments takes significant steps toward studying and establishing controls for air and water pollution control along the Mahoning River.

Walter Lee Martin of Dothan, Ala., is a twice-wounded veteran of Vietnam — at the age of 15. He has enlisted twice in the army under assumed names, the first time at the age of 12.

Magnetic Analysis Corp. of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., manufacturer of electronic testing equipment for the steel, non-ferrous, metal fabricating and automobile industries, announces plans to construct a sales office and manufacturing facility on Gladstone Road, Jackson Township.

1960: Niles City Council rescinds an earlier resolution in support of Youngstown’s acquisition of unused federal facilities at the Youngstown Municipal Airport in response to complaints by representatives of civilian employees at the air base, who say their 275 jobs are at stake.

Walter Sherman, his sons and grandchildren have uncovered 100 flint arrowheads in a patch on the family’s farm on Leffingwell Road, southwest of Canfield. They’re identified as dating between the Adena and Hopewell mound builders, between 1000 B.C and 750 A.D.

Playing at the air conditioned Warner Theater, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Angie Dickinson in “Oceans 11.”

1935: Ohio Gov. Martin Davey orders the state liquor department to conduct a relentless campaign against slot machines in the state.

Youngstown contracts for 40,000 gallons of gasoline from the Gulf Oil Co. at 131/2 cents a gallon.

The Rev. C.E. Krumm, a Lutheran minister for more than 40 years, retires as minister of the Lutheran churches in Lisbon and New Waterford, which he served for 14 years.

Mahoning County sheriff’s deputies eject independent bookmakers from the dog racing track at the Canfield Fairgrounds.