Years Ago

August 29, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2010. There are 124 days left in the year.

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1877: The second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young, dies in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age 76.

1910: Korean Emperor Sunjong abdicates as the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty goes into effect.

1935: The film “Top Hat,” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, opens in New York.

1943: Responding to a clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark manages to scuttle most of its naval ships.

1944: Fifteen thousand American troops march down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continues to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.

1957: The Senate gives final congressional approval to a Civil Rights Act after South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ends a 24-hour filibuster.

1958: Pop superstar Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Ind.

1966: The Beatles conclude their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

2005: Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast near Buras, La.; the resulting floods devastate the city of New Orleans. More than 1,800 people in the region die.

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1985: A ribbon-cutting opens the 139th annual Canfield Fair under partly cloudy skies.

A new contract agreement ends a three-day strike by Girard teachers. The agreement will increase base pay from $14,000 to $15,500 over two years.

A research group, Citizens for Tax Justice, says 40 big, profitable corporations, led by AT&T, avoided paying income tax, despite more than $10 billion in profits in 1984.

The Eastern Ohio Automobile Dealers Association establishes a memorial scholarship in the name of George Apostolakis to assist students studying automotive technology at Kent State University Trumbull Campus.

Youngstown motorists pay an average base automobile insurance premium of $547, higher than any other metropolitan area in the state except Cleveland.

1970: Dr. Joseph E. Smith, 81, dean of Youngstown State University and a member of the faculty from 1921 until his retirement in 1967, dies in South Side Hospital 11 days after being struck by a motorcycle near his North Jackson home.

Negotiations are underway with the Youngstown Education Association on wages for the Youngstown district’s 1,200 teachers, whose base salary is $6,250.

General Motors Corp.’s trouble-plagued Lordstown fabricating plant is shut down by what the company describes as an illegal wildcat strike that threatens production of the Vega 2300.

Deirdre Keyes is crowned Miss Youngstown during a pageant at the Holiday Inn West and will represent the city at the state level of the Miss World Pageant in Painesville.

1960: Catholic schools in Mahoning County will open with a record enrollment of 17,561, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year.

Margaret Reany, cashier at the Henry H. Stambaugh Municipal Golf Course, is honored at her retirement after 26 years of service to the course and hundreds of regular golfers there.

Youngstown swimming pools will remain open for the coming week as muggy weather with temperatures in the 90s continues.

Returning to Idora Park Ballroom for a one-night engagement, Maynard Ferguson and his trumpet.

1935: Mahoning County’s 12,000 indigent school children will have to prepare as best they can for the coming school year without any help from FERA in the way of new clothes because of budget cuts.

Youngstown Playground Director Tommy Pemberton announces that another tennis tournament will be staged at the Kyle Courts starting Sept. 4 to be known as the Mahoning Valley Tourney.

Youngstown Rotarians tour the new continuous strip mill of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. before their regular weekly luncheon, which was served at the Sheet & Tube restaurant.