Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Aug. 2, the 215th day of 2012. There are 151 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1862: The Ambulance Corps for the Army of the Potomac is created at the order of Maj. Gen. George McClellan during the Civil War.

1876: Frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok is shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Jack McCall, who is later hanged.

1909: The original Lincoln “wheat” penny first goes into circulation, replacing the “Indian Head” cent.

1923: The 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, dies in San Francisco; Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president.

1985: One hundred and thirty-five people are killed when a Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

1990: Iraq invades Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. (The Iraqis are later driven out in Operation Desert Storm.)

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1987: Youngstown area school boards are taking austerity measures in response to Gov. Richard Celeste’s biennial budget that calls for a freeze on state funding in 1988 and a 4 percent increase in 1989.

The Ohio Funeral Directors Association voices its support for a state Senate bill that would require that a mortician be informed when a body they are to embalm is that of a person who died of AIDS.

1972: Nikki Ann Marks, 17, of Greenford is crowned Miss Youngstown Teenager and will compete in the Miss Ohio Teenager pageant at the Eastwood Mall.

The Mahoning County Board of Health defies the state and refuses to permit the dumping of sludge from Cleveland sewage treatment plants in a rural Smith Township landfill.

1962: Charles J. Elder, 72, of Struthers dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being stabbed by another 72-year-old man in a fight over a $2 debt.

Youngstown public schools received only $67.37 in state money for each pupil for 1961-62, figures compiled by the Legislative Service Commission show.

1937: A 10-year-old Campbell boy, Louis Candella, drowns in the Idora Park swimming pool without any of the other 600 bathers in the pool noticing. Several hours later, his brother, John, 15, is struck by a streetcar, breaking both his legs.

On average, the Mahoning County Board of Child Welfare, formerly the Glenwood Children’s Home, cares for 170 children, Joseph Jones, the board president, tells Mr. C.J. Goldthrope, president of the Youngstown Federation of Women’s Clubs, during a WKBN Radio interview.