Years Ago
Today is Monday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2010. There are 123 days left in the year.
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1861: Union Gen. John C. Fremont institutes martial law in Missouri, declaring slaves free. (His order is countermanded days later by President Abraham Lincoln).
1945: Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrives in Japan to set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1963: The “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow goes into operation.
1967: The Senate confirms the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1983: Guion S. Bluford, Jr. becomes the first black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off aboard the Challenger.
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1985: Richard Selby, Boardman High School principal, is named superintendent of Boardman Local School District.
1970: An afternoon fire in the 76-year-old section of the former Rayen School on Wick Avenue, now occupied by Youngstown State University, causes more than $5,000 damage to the building.
A black soldier who died in Vietnam is buried in an all-white cemetery in Fort Pierce, Fla., after a federal judge issues a court order ending segregation at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Some white families say they’ll remove the remains of their loved ones from the cemetery.
1960: Youngstown Mayor Frank R. Franko moves to stem mounting opposition from neighboring communities to a city proposal that the Air Force turn over for civilian use its excess facilities at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
A walkout by 150 electricians shuts down the Roemer Works of Sharon Steel Corp. in Farrell, idling 2,000 steelworkers.
1935: A dozen stars of stage and screen, as well as famous American and foreign pilots, are at the 1935 National Air Races at Cleveland. Among them are Amelia Earhart, Wallace Beery and Col. Roscoe Turner.
Mahoning County commissioners are racing against time for federal money toward construction of a psychiatric hospital on the grounds of the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Hospital.
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