Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Aug. 9, the 222nd day of 2012. There are 144 days left in the year.

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1842: The United States and Canada resolve a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.

1854: Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which describes Thoreau’s experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, is first published.

1862: During the Civil War, Confederate forces drive back Union troops in the Battle of Cedar Mountain in Culpeper County, Va.

1902: Edward VII is crowned king of Britain following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States takes first place in the 400-meter relay.

1942: Britain arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi; he is released in 1944.

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1987: The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services in Youngstown has been fielding hundreds of calls and is anticipating a crowd when applications open for jobs at the New Avanti Motor Co. in Youngstown.

With 28 homicides in 1986 and 21 in 1985, Youngstown has a murder rate of about 23 per 100,000 people, more than double the rate of other cities its size.

Construction work on Interstate 80 between Belmont Avenue and Salt Springs Road grinds to a halt as members of the Teamsters union walk off the site in a dispute with Kirila Contractors of Brookfield.

1972: In a surprise move, James Anderson, 32, pleads guilty to seven counts of first-degree vehicular homicide arising from Youngstown’s worst single traffic disaster, on Nov. 12, 1971.

Tar leaking from a huge tank into the Mahoning River at Republic Steel Corp.’s Youngstown plant “is a problem, but not a cause for alarm,” an official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cleveland says.

Aeroquip Corp.’s Republic Rubber Division will phase out its molded rubber goods line in Youngstown, eliminating about 150 jobs.

Four area girls take several top awards at the National and World Baton Championship held at Notre Dame University. They are Cindy Sullivan, 16, and sisters Karen Peters, 11, Ginny Peters, 10, and Cindy Peters, 5.

1962: John A. Saunders, president of General Fireproofing Co., announces plans for a $1.2 million modernization project that he says will help protect the jobs of the company’s 2,200 employees.

Two Youngstown boys, Reiad Chikhani, 18, and John Maruskin, 15, who were shot attempting to thwart two different hold-ups in July, have been released from the hospital.

The Edward J. DeBartolo companies and General Development Corp., a leading community-building firm, reach an agreement for joint development of planned communities in Port Malabar, Port Charlotte and Port St. Lucie in Florida.

1937: Protection by Campbell police and deputy sheriffs is asked at the city’s 13 polling places after John Lysowski, councilman at large and campaign manager for Democratic mayoral candidate William Glass, is wounded slightly by a bullet at the Campbell Athletic Club.

Some 2,000 women members of the Mahoning Valley Civic Movement vow to “rout Communism out of the Mahoning Valley no matter where it is found.”