Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Aug. 16, the 229th day of 2012. There are 137 days left in the year.

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1812: Detroit falls to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.

1861: President Abraham Lincoln issues Proclamation 86, which prohibits the states of the Union from engaging in commercial trade with confederate states.

1920: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is struck in the head by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees; Chapman dies the following morning.

1948: Baseball legend Babe Ruth dies in New York at age 53.

1962: The Beatles fire their original drummer, Pete Best, replacing him with Ringo Starr.

1977: Elvis Presley,42, dies at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tenn.

1987: One hundred and fifty-six people are killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes while trying to take off from Detroit; the sole survivor is 4-year-old Cecelia Cichan.

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1987: Richard Brown, a partner in Park Hotel Associates, says that when the $2.4 million renovation of the 100-year-old Park Hotel in downtown Warren is complete it will have 55 rooms, a grand ballroom, a restaurant and a pub.

YSU head coach Jim Tressel names Jack Glowik, a 1978 graduate of Miami of Ohio University, as an assistant coach, handling outside linebackers and special teams on the Penguins squad.

1972: Fire destroys the A. H. Buerhle Co. warehouse and $350,000 worth of snowmobiles and power lawn mowers. Loss to the West Avenue building is also estimated at $350,000.

Local 28 of the Fraternal Order of Police rejects Youngstown’s wage offer of a 5 percent pay increase in 1973 and another 5 percent in 1974.

Howard Johnson’s and Lawson’s file building permits for two restaurant-hotel complexes in Liberty that will add 232 hotel rooms on Belmont Avenue.

1962: General Fireproofing Co. reports first half earnings of $841,000 or $1.17 per common share, doubling its figures for the same period in 1961.

Blanche McConnell Mc-Kelvey, 86, widow of Lucius B. McKelvey, civic leader and merchant, dies in North Side Hospital.

1937: Some 10,000 Youngstowners, led by Mayor Lionel Evans and Ruth Finnie, Miss Youngstown, attend “Youngstown Day” at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland. Miss Finnie is photographed with Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic star and “Tarzan” of motion picture fame.

Patsy Billano, the first of three independent “bugmen” arrested by Youngstown police, is fined $15 and costs by Municipal Judge Peter Mulholland.

More than $350,000 worth of road rebuilding is underway in Mahoning County, says John W. Taylor, state highway engineer.