Years Ago

August 31, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 31, the 243rd day of 2010. There are 122 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1886: An earthquake rocks Charleston, S.C., killing 60 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

1954: Hurricane Carol hits the northeastern Atlantic states; Connecticut, Rhode Island and part of Massachusetts bear the brunt of the storm, which results in nearly 70 deaths.

1969: Boxer Rocky Marciano dies in a light airplane crash in Iowa, a day before his 46th birthday.

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1985: A six-candidate race for Warren Board of Education narrows when three candidates, Robert D. Miller, Samuel Trina and Reuben Blake are disqualified because of faulty candidacy petitions. Left in the race are incumbents Adelaide T. Mullane and Paul W. Carlson and challenger Werner J. Lange.

Opening Day of the Canfield Fair attracts a crowd of 90,742. The oldest among them is Charles Pullman, of West Middlesex, who is given a cake marking his 103rd birthday.

1970: School teachers registered with Selective Service Board 78, which conducts the draft in four Youngstown wards, are losing their draft deferments under a new policy.

The Rev. Msgr. John A. Stipanovic, paster of SS. Peter and Paul Church for 53 years, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital at 83.

Donald Black, 35, of East Liverpool is killed when his gyrocopter, a motorless aircraft similar to a helicopter, crashes while being towed by a car at Leslie Airport.

1960: Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Battisti upholds the controversial city ordinance making retirement compulsory for Youngstown police and firemen if they have 33 years of service.

The Senate and House give final approval to $2.2 million appropriations each for the Shenango and West Branch reservoir projects in the Youngstown area.

1935: The Mahoning County Works Projects Administration must have $12 million in qualified projects, four times what had been anticipated, by the end of the week, says Ralph Vail, local public works director.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Omnibus Rivers and Harbors bill, which authorizes $614 million in waterway improvements, including the Beaver-Mahoning route for a Lake Erie-Ohio river canal.

Mahoning County’s annual fair opens in Canfield with first-day crowds of 8,000.