Years Ago

Today is Monday, Aug. 6, the 219th day of 2012. There are 147 days left in the year.

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1862: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled by its crew on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, La., to prevent capture by the Union.

1930: New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater goes missing after leaving a Manhattan restaurant; his disappearance remains a mystery to this day.

1945: During World War II, the United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths.

1956: The DuMont television network goes off the air after a decade of operations.

1978: Pope Paul VI dies at Castel Gandolfo at age 80.

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1987: Two young men are in Trumbull County Jail accused of plotting to terrorize the village of West Farmington. They are charged with arson, breaking and entering and inducing panic.

The Kennedy School for the Gifted in Youngstown closes its doors after 42 years, telling parents by letter that it will not open for the coming school year “due to circumstances beyond our control.”

Youngstown voters will decide in November whether the Park and Recreation department should be abolished and consolidated in the city building and grounds division.

1972: Frank Leseganich, United Steelworkers Union District 26 director, says there is strong labor support for a Beaver-Mahoning Canal, which he terms as essential to job security for 35,000 to 40,000 Youngstown district steelworkers.

A young soldier home on leave and his student-nurse girlfriend are found dead in a car parked on Route 62 north of Salem, victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. Dead are Ricky J. Pelliccioni of Canfield and Phyllis Stuart of Enon Valley, Pa., a student at Salem Community Hospital.

1962: Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. announces plans to build an $8 million plant in Ashtabula to manufacture urethane foam.

The Elm Food Market at 688 Elm St., owned by Abbas M. Awad, is raided for the second week in a row by Ohio State Liquor Control authorities, accused of Sunday sales.

Thirteen area racket figures, including the slain Billy Naples and Struthers Kingpin Ronald Carabbia, are among 83 northern Ohioans, who purchased federal gambling stamps for the current fiscal year.

1937: An 11-car Erie Railroad train is switched onto a little-used side track at W. Rayen Ave. and West Ave., derails and smashes into a house at 213 West Ave., knocking it off its foundation. Injured is Mrs. Bell Denton, 32, who was pinned beneath debris in her bedroom.

Andrew Gulyas, an open hearth worker at the Ohio Works of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. is killed when a 7-ton mould topples, crushing him.