Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2011. There are 125 days left in the year.

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1609: English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reach present-day Delaware Bay.

1861: Union forces attack two Confederate forts on the North Carolina Outer Banks. (The Confederates surrender the next day, giving the Union its first notable victory of the Civil War.)

1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he is found brutally slain three days later.

1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom takes place in the nation’s capital, where more than 200,000 people listen as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

1968: Police and anti-war demonstrators clash in Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominates Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

1990: An F5 tornado strikes the Chicago area, killing 29 people.

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1986: Nearly 500 of Warren City School District’s 580 school teachers vote to strike unless a new contract is reached, setting the stage for what would be the first strike by teachers in the city in 17 years.

Independent downtown Youngstown businessmen say they welcome news that the city will take over the former Strouss-Kaufmann building and convert it to offices for corporate headquarters of Phar-Mor.

Several hundred worshippers from Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania attend the first full-fledged holy day celebration at the new Hindu Temple in Liberty township.

1971: The Niles Scot-Eres Baton and Drum Corps wins the international NBTA championship at the Canadian International Exhibition in Toronto for the second year in a row. The group, under the direction of Veronica Caruso, competed with 27 other corps.

A group of protesters, residents of Niles South Side, prevent a crew of Youngstown workers hired by A&B Development from installing a water tap-in from the Niles municipal water system to a mobile home park in Weathersfield Township just of Indiana Avenue.

1961: Various local enforcement officers and jurists of County, Municipal and Common Pleas courts meet to discuss traffic safety and combat the county’s mounting traffic death toll.

Twenty-four Youngstown district youngsters join the cast of Kenley Players in Warren as children in “The King and I,” starring Patricia Morison and Ted Scott. The children are Ricky Childress, Denise Barnes, Patty Chanson, Alane Chanson, Jim Rowland, Roselyn Rowland, Roseann Fabrizio, Linda Fabrizio, Dale Flanigan, Renee Thomas, Tom DiLoreto, Lynn McIntyre, Patty Consoldane, Janice Natale, Genevieve Frey, Brian Knofsky, Rani Knofsky, Jodie Knofsky, Blaise Chanson, Janice Consoldane, Jessie Consoldane, Daniel DiLoreto, Anthony DiLoreto, Jimmy Fredericka and Jill Klippel.

1936: City Council rejects a proposal to submit to voters a charter amendment that would provide for a municipal primary election.

Renner Brewing Co. of Youngstown declares its first dividend of 10 cents a share on 508,000 shares of outstanding stock.

Steel stocks are strong again on the New York Stock Exchange and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. hits a new high of 805/8. Bethlehem Steel also made a new high at 673/8 and U.S. Steel at 695/8.