Years Ago

Today is Monday, Aug. 22nd, the 234th day of 2011. There are 131 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1485: England’s King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.

1922: Irish revolutionary Michael Collins is shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.

1968: Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.

1986: Kerr-McGee Corp. agrees to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.

1989: Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton is shot to death in Oakland, Calif. , by Tyrone Robinson.

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1986: Dennis J. Kucinich, former mayor of Cleveland and an independent candidate for Ohio governor, says the proposed 120-mile canal linking the Ohio River and Lake Erie is “overdue.”

Entrepreneurs attending a White House conference vow to fight legislation seeking extended time off for new parents and sick people, saying it would put many small businesses out of business.

1971: Laid-off employees of the Ohio Works of the U.S. Steel Corp. are ruled ineligible for food stamps because they are not on public assistance.

Poland’s new $2.35 million high school on Dobbins Road will greet 700 pupils on opening day of the semester Sept. 8.

1961: Six new ROTC officers take the oath at Youngstown University: James S. Mika, Gilbert L. Noble, Carl A. Nunciato, Blase DeLeo, Charles W. Greskovich and Ray M. Klein.

Joe Nardella, 9, of Norwood Avenue is putting together a scrapbook of space flight which includes letters he has received from Alan B. Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom, answering questions he asked after their space flights.

1936: About 500 people gather in Niles to greet Kansas Gov. Alf Landon as his train heads toward West Middlesex, Pa., where he will kick off the Republican presidential campaign. Landon presents a wreath to Mayor Fred Williams to be placed at the McKinley Memorial.

Pickets remain outside the Triangle Raincoat Co. factory on E. Federal Street although the plant closed for the day while negotiations are conducted with striking women who work there.

Mike Acri, 24, of Oak Street is injured when his automobile is struck by an Erie locomotive at the Hazel Street crossing.