Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2011. There are 149 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1892: Andrew and Abby Borden are axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew’s daughter from a previous marriage, is accused of the killings, but acquitted at trial.

1944: Fifteen-year-old diarist Anne Frank is arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne dies the following year at Bergen-Belsen.)

1977: President Jimmy Carter signs a measure establishing the Department of Energy.

1987: The Federal Communications Commission votes to abolish the Fairness Doctrine, which requires radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Niles Mayor John P. Shaffer says he has no intention of filling seven openings on the city police force, including three captaincies, because of city finances.

Works of more than 70 Youngstown area artists go on display at the Federal Plaza office of Bank One, which has hosted the John Young Arts Festival for 15 years.

1971: The Ohio Department of Health says it has identified major health shortcomings in areas served by the Mahoning County Health Department, including lack of service for unwed pregnant teenagers and lack of child health conferences.

Basil C. Scott, mayor of Sharon, is elected president of the Pennsylvania League of Cities.

The Market Street Bridge over the Mahoning River is considered one of the 10 highest priority bridges for replacement under a new federal bridge program.

1961: The area’s 39th Loblaw supermarket in the immediate Youngstown area opens in the Fifth Street Plaza in Struthers.

Police shoot and kill Nicholas Petro 31, as he ran from the rear of an E. Indianola Avenue store and refused police orders to stop.

Mahoning County commissioners make a bid to have the federal government locate the national headquarters of project Apollo, the U.S. moonshot, in the county.

1936: Trumbull County commissioners authorize County Engineer Royal H. Stilltoe to survey the proposed site of the tri-city airport just north of Vienna so that the project can be submitted to federal authorities for approval.

Jesse Owens, Ohio State Negro all-round star, wins the Olympic broad jump title in Berlin, following up his earlier triumph in the 100-yeard dash.

County commissioners will place an issue on the November ballot for $128,000 to buy voting machines.