Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 17, the 229th day of 2011. There are 136 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1807: Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat begins heading up the Hudson River on its successful round trip between New York and Albany.
1915: A mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who’d maintained his innocence, is pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.)
1943: The Allied conquest of Sicily is completed as U.S. and British forces enter Messina.
1960: The newly Beatles (formerly the Silver Beetles) begin their first gig in Hamburg, West Germany, at the Indra Club.
1969: Hurricane Camille slams into the Mississippi coast as a Category 5 storm that is blamed for 256 U.S. deaths, three in Cuba.
1978: The first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ends as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman land their Double Eagle II outside Paris.
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1986: Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says he will run for a third term even if the Youngstown Board of Education adopts a new policy that would deprive him from another leave from his job as an assistant principal at South High School.
Census figures for 1984 show Youngstown’s population drops 6.5 percent to 108,042.
1971: Youngstown City Council President Charles E. Frost, filling the unexpired term of John M. Hudzik, is unanimously named Republican candidate for the post by the Republican central committee.
The Mahoning County Farm Bureau Federation nominates the Raymond Koch family of Petersburg as the county’s Rural Family of the Year and the Hugh A. Frost family of Youngstown as Urban Family of the Year.
1961: Mahoning County commissioners laud Planning Director James C. Ryan and his staff for quickly assembling information that will be used to present the Mahoning Valley as a site for an Apollo moon project research laboratory.
A temperature of 50 degrees registered at the Youngstown Municipal Airport ties the record low of 1954 for this date.
The Community Chest reports its Fresh Air Camp hosted 698 boys and girls during the summer, 398 of them for the first time. More than 1,700 had applied, but only 700 could be accommodated.
1936: Dick Flannery, the stout-hearted, witty Irishman who never ceased to demand what he felt was due the East Side during his years on city council dies at he home at 117 Oak St. He was 68.
Consumers may be hoarding food in other parts of the county due to fear of drought-connected rising prices, but Youngstown are merchants say they’ve noticed no such tendency.
Earl Hartland, Youngs-town tenor, wins first place on “Youngstown Night” of the Mayor Bowes Amateur Hour, while the Premier Octette of the Lions Club wins second and Miss Grace Straw, lyric soprano, is third.