Years Ago

Today is Monday, Aug. 13, the 226th day of 2012. There are 140 days left in the year.

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1792: French revolutionaries imprison the royal family.

1910: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, dies in London at age 90.

1932: Adolf Hitler rejects the post of vice chancellor of Germany, saying he is prepared to hold out “for all or nothing.”

1934: The satirical comic strip “Li’l Abner,” created by Al Capp, makes its debut.

1942: Walt Disney’s animated feature “Bambi” has its U.S. premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York, five days after its world premiere in London.

1960: The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite takes place with the help of Echo 1.

1961: East Germany seals off the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors and begins building a wall that would stand for the next 28 years.

1981: In a ceremony at his California ranch, President Ronald Reagan signs a historic package of tax and budget reductions.

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1987: Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro asks the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp. to earmark for city residents 25 percent of any new jobs created at the Youngstown Commerce Park.

A bill introduced in the Ohio Senate by Sen. Roy L. Ray, R-Akron, would allow private operators to bid for roughly 200 of the 300 liquor stores operated by the state.

1972: Terry November, 17, of Cortland is crowned Miss Ohio Teenager in a pageant at the Eastwood Mall.

Fred DeLuca, manager of the Youngstown Municipal Airport, says efforts will be made to ease noise pollution from heavy aircraft used in training by the Pittsburgh-based Air Force Reserve units and Allegheny Airlines.

1962: Damage is estimated at nearly $200,000 in a fire that destroyed the H.M. Sterner tire distributing company at 420 Croton Ave., New Castle.

A summer outing of five future students for the Catholic priesthood ends in tragedy when James Hunter, 18, of Niles drowns in Mosquito Lake about 75 feet from shore at St. Robert Mission Church near Cortland.

John Palermo, chairman of the Mahoning County commissioners, says he is studying the Urban Mass Transit Act to see if the county could play a role in expanding the Youngstown Transit Co. into a regional transit system.

1937: The official count conducted by the Mahoning County Board of elections shows Campbell Mayor John J. Boark with a 27-vote margin of victory over former mayor Joseph Julius, 1,753 to 1,726.

Ruth Virginia Finnie, 18,is named “Miss South Side” and “Miss Youngstown” at the 17th annual outing of the South Side Merchants and Civic Association at Idora Park.