Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2011. There are 132 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his new telescope to a group of officials atop the Campanile in Venice.

1831: Nat Turner leads a violent slave rebellion in Virginia resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people. (He is later executed.)

1911: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (The thief turns out to be museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia, who took the painting to Italy, where it was found two years later.)

1961: Patsy Cline records the Willie Nelson song “Crazy” in Nashville for Decca Records.

1986: More than 1,700 people die when toxic gas erupts from a volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon.

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1986: Vindicator Managing Editor Ann N. Przelomski is one of 20 women selected for induction into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame.

Springfield Township trustees ask the Ohio Department of Liquor Control for a hearing on a liquor license application made by Dave Sugar for 13485 Woodworth Road. Sugar had previously sought a license for South Range Lake.

The strike by 118 pharmacists and medical technicians against the Youngstown Hospital Association Inc. enters its second week with no talks scheduled.

1971: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt refuses to issue an injunction barring a rock concert in Milton Township after promoters Fred Beshara Jr. and his brother, James, say they have arranged for 104 chemical toilets and will provide adequate drinking water for the crowds.

Some 27 teachers at W.S. Guy Elementary in Liberty vote not to attend a five-day workshop concerning a new educational program unless they are paid their salary rate.

All but 11 of Ohio’s 57 state parks will be closed Sept. 7 under an austerity program announced by Gov. John J. Gilligan.

1961: Longtime Youngs-town community leader H.S. “Dave” Warwick is honored at Ohio State University’s commencement for his years of support of the university, which began in 1906, when he was president of his class and also the first official OSU cheerleader.

Ohio Atty. Gen. Mark McElroy, speaking at Polish Day at Idora Park, says that Ohio’s three new antigambling laws will help eliminate racketeering in the state.

Fifteen buckeye trees are presented to the Mahoning County Fair Board by the Dublin Grange 1409 and dedicated to the men and women from the county’s 15 townships who died in the nation’s wars.

1936: A check for $92,889 from the Republic Steel Corp. boosts the current real estate tax collection for Mahoning County to $795,140, county Treasurer George P. Lewis reports.

Assistant Mahoning County Prosecutor Ralph E. Turner says county commissioners have no voice in the management or operation of the county fairground and whether dog races are held there.

The Youngstown Players are opening a drive to sign up 1,000 subscribers for their theater season.