Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Aug. 12, the 225th day of 2012. There are 141 days left in the year.

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1867: President Andrew Johnson sparks a move to impeach him as he defies Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

1912: Comedy producer Mack Sennett founds the Keystone Pictures Studio in Edendale, Calif.

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominates Hugo Black to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1944: During World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, is killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blows up over England.

1981: IBM introduces its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.

1985: The world’s worst single-aircraft disaster occurs as a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashes into a mountain, killing 520 people. (Four people survive.)

1992: After 14 months of negotiations, the United States, Mexico and Canada announce in Washington that they have concluded the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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1987: Atty. Richard F. McLaughlin is appointed to the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees by Gov. Richard F. Celeste.

The Ohio Heart Institute in Youngstown is one of 10 centers in the nation and the only one in Ohio to complete testing of a new procedure that uses laser surgery to clear blockages in upper leg arteries.

Clara Peller, the actress who gained fame for her line, “Where’s the beef?” in an ad campaign that boosted Wendy’s sales by a whopping 31 percent, dies in Chicago. Her exact age was unknown, but she was believed to have been 85.

1972: Two gunmen surprise a priest and two secretaries at the rectory of St. Dominic Church, 77 E. Lucius Ave., and escape with a bank bag containing receipts from the bingo game the night before. The loss wasn’t revealed. Bandits in April took $13,500 in Easter Sunday collections from the church.

Four hundred youngsters from 30 Youngstown playgrounds take the stage at Pemberton Park portraying various Disney characters in the annual playground show performed for parents and friends.

United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel says the union will make no endorsement in the presidential election between Democrat George McGovern and President Richard M. Nixon.

1962: Four missionaries are consecrated at the New Wilmington, Pa., Missionary Conference: Dr. and Mrs. Roy Marion of Ellwood City will go to Gore, Ethiopia; Miss Barbara Christy of New Wilmington has been assigned to Tanta, Egypt, and Edwin Carlsen of Springdale will go to Muree, Pakistan.

The 160-room, 35-year-old Castleton Hotel in downtown New Castle, the city’s largest hotel, will be sold at auction after owners default on a $290,474 second mortgage.

Monica Chmielewski of Poland is chosen “Queen of Hearts” of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity at Youngstown University and will be the cover girl of the university student calendar for 1962-63.

1937: Nine passengers, including six women and a 3 Ω-year-old girl, are injured when a truck sideswipes a Mosier bus at Hine Street and Himrod Avenue. All were treated at the nearby office of Dr. Laurence Segal.

Judge John J. Powers questions Youngstown’s conflicting ordinances, which prohibit marble boards, yet authorize the mayor to license them during hearings for three men arrested by city police.

Guards selected by Campbell Mayor John J. Borak and his challenger, former Mayor Joseph E. Julius, are stationed at the Mahoning County Board of Elections to protect ballots against any possibility of tampering until a recount is conducted in the Democratic primary that gave Borak a 37-vote margin of victory.