Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 1, the 214th day of 2012. There are 152 days left in the year.

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1907: The U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.

1911: Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to receive a U.S. pilot’s certificate from the Aero Club of America. (Quimby is killed in an accident in July 1912 at age 37.)

1912: The U.S. Marine Corps’ first pilot, 1st Lt. Alfred A. Cunningham, goes on his first solo flight as he takes off in a Burgess/Curtis Hydroplane from Marblehead Harbor in Massachusetts.

1936: The Summer Olympics opens in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, goes on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas in Austin, killing 14 people. Whitman, who had also murdered his wife and mother hours earlier, is gunned down by police.

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1987: H. Alexander Pendleton, chief executive officer of the Warren Tool Corp. and a driving force in revitalization of downtown Warren, says the city has come a long way in recent years, but its future is even brighter.

Youngstown area Lotto outlets are busy selling tickets as the Ohio jackpot reaches a record $30 million.

Two congregations of the Steel Valley Baptist Association of the Southern Baptist Convention are voted out of the local association for their refusal to accept a ban on “speaking in tongues.” The congregations are Liberty Baptist and Market Street Baptist.

1972: Youngstown city Council adopts ordinances permitting construction of about $1 million in public improvements in the East End urban renewal program.

Rep. Frank T. Bow of Canton, R-16th, whose district includes much of Mahoning County, says, “Some day the average taxpayer is going to connect the amount that is taken out of his paycheck for federal taxes with the amounts the pie-in-the-sky politicians dish out in federal aid. “

1962: The FBI arrests a Cleveland man in Youngstown who is believed to be the leader of a gang that stole $50,000 in money orders, including 21 blanks from Allen’s Drugs Store on Gypsy Lane.

St. Elizabeth Hospital holds its annual Ex-Intern Day, when doctors on the intern and residency staff present scientific papers. followed by golf and an outing at the farm of Dr. A.C. Marinelli.

1937: Youngstown gambling circles are abuzz with news that a new money man is entering the “bug” racket, prepared to rival the “Big House” and the American Bank” that are already operating in the city.

Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says the steel strike cost the company and its 23,000 employees about $38 million, but it will pay intangible benefits in the future.