Years Ago

Today is Monday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2011. There are 152 days left in the year.

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1907: The U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.

1911: Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to receive a U.S. pilot’s certificate from the Aero Club of America. (Quimby’s accomplishments include being the first woman to fly across the English Channel; she was killed in an accident in July 1912 at age 37.)

1936: The Summer Olympics open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

1944: An uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasts two months before collapsing.

1946: President Harry S. Truman signs the Fulbright Program into law.

The Atomic Energy Commission is established.

1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, goes on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas in Austin, killing 14 people. Whitman, who had also murdered his wife and mother hours earlier, is gunned down by police.

1971: The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, takes place at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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1986: The Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp. announces that Handleman Co. will build a $1 million distribution center in the Youngstown Commerce Park in North Jackson.

Some 26,000 pounds of butter stored at the former Golden Star Dairy in East Liverpool is dumped in a landfill after becoming moldy. There will be no butter for the needy in the tricounty area for three months.

1971: Ohio’s big push to clean up the Mahoning River to “trout stream” standards could put some major industrial plants out of business, critics say.

The Youngstown area’s 11,000 steelworkers are completing plans to set up picket lines if agreement is not reached to avert a nationwide steel strike.

The Haber Furniture Co. announces a $100,000 remodeling of its store at 200 E. Federal St.

1961:An air of apprehension hangs over the farewells at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad depot in Youngstown as several hundred area reservists leave for two weeks of training at Camp A.P. Hill, Va. There’s a possibility that the summer camp may turn into a longer deployment in response to the Berlin crisis.

1936: George C. Brainard, president of General Fireproofing Co., is appointed a director of the Federal Reserve Bank at Cleveland in recognition of his efforts to bring back better financial conditions.

Four more people are added to the lengthening list of those bitten by dogs here as officials await reports on whether the dogs are rabid. Mahoning County Dog Warden George Baun reports 126 strays were picked up and disposed of during the week.