Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 15, the 228th day of 2012. There are 138 days left in the year.

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1057: Macbeth, King of Scots, is killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.

1914: The Panama Canal opens to traffic.

1935: Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when their airplane crashes near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.

1945: In a radio address, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announces that his country has accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.

1947: India becomes independent after some 200 years of British rule.

1971: President Richard Nixon announces a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.

1998: Twenty-nine people are killed by a car bomb that tears apart the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claims responsibility.

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1987: More than 11,000 men and women apply for 165 jobs building cars at the New Avanti Motor Co., in Youngstown.

Bishop James W. Malone celebrates a special Mass at the Ursuline Motherhouse in Canfield marking the silver jubilee of five Ursuline nuns: Sisters Rose Dailey, Pauline Dalpe, Carol Ann Higgins, Patricia McNicholas and Kathleen Minchin.

1972: Atty. Harrison Herschel Hunt, who served as law director under Mayor Charles Henderson, dies at his Cascade Drive home. He was 83.

Hundreds of enthusiastic supporters crowd around Democratic Presidential nominee George McGovern as he takes a walking tour of Youngstown’s Uptown district.

A mail poll conducted by U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney of constituents in Mahoning and Trumbull counties shows 85 percent favor a canal tying the Mahoning and Beaver rivers to the Ohio River.

1962: The Downtown Board of Trade announces a “School-O-Rama” sale which will be launched with a parade and is the first such event attempted in the city in many years.

Salem school officials say they are expecting a record enrollment of 3,726 students when classes resume.

The House Appropriations Committee approves $220,000 to complete a resurvey of the proposed Lake Erie-Ohio River connecting waterway.

1937: An artist’s rendering is released of a proposed “Tri-Valley Airport” administration building at the proposed airport in Vienna Township.

After arresting 12 people over three days for having illegal marble boards, Youngstown police turn their attention to numbers operators, nabbing three “bugmen.”

The Ohio Farm Bureau says that while Ohio ranks second only to California in revenue received from gasoline taxes for highway purposes, it is far from having a commendable highway system because Ohio’s Highway Department is “corrupt and politically run.”