Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2011. There are 135 days left in the year.

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1838: The first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government sets sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews travel the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information.

1846: U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny capture Santa Fe, N.M.

1920: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, is ratified with Tennessee as the 36th state to approve it.

1961: Federal appeals court Judge Learned Hand, 89, dies in New York.

1963: James Meredith becomes the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

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1986: YSU’s new football coach, Jim Tressel, says he initially planned to be a high school teacher and coach after receiving his bachelor’s degree, but he wasn’t offered a high school job and so took a position as an assistant coach at the college level.

About 2,000 people are at Beeghly Center for the first night of the Leighton Ford Greater Youngstown Crusade, including James W. Malone, bishop of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese, who recalls that the first Ford crusade here was held at the Canfield Fair 10 years earlier under rainy skies.

The Ohio State Fair sets an attendance record, with 3,683,165 people attending during its 17-day run.

1971: The Youngstown City Planning Commission hears a proposal to construct a $2 million apartment complex abutting Mill Creek Park between Canfield Road and Cricket Drive.

The Ohio Education Association says it will take legal action if school districts do not honor new pay schedules already agreed to when classes begin in September, saying the increase predate President Nixon’s wage freeze.

Gwen Loeffler, 22, of Struthers is named “Miss Youngstown” and will vie in the Miss Ohio pageant in Toledo.

1961: The East Ohio Gas Co. offers to open its books to support the company’s request for a rate increase of $33.9 million.

Mahoning County Treasurer John A. Bannon, 56, of Southern Blvd., dies of a heart attack in South Side Hospital.

“Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye,” star of ABC-TV, at Idora Park.

1936: Trumbull County Sheriff Roy Hardman vows that there will be no betting at dog races that are scheduled to start Aug. 27 at The Maples near Fowler.

Hundreds of employees at the Strouss-Hirshberg store in Youngstown attend the company picnic at Myers Lake Park in Canton.

The Board for Aid to the Aged in Trumbull County votes to turn over 1,250 old age pensions to the state after the state twice refuses to name John B. McCaughtry as an investigator.