Years Ago

Today is Friday, Aug. 17, the 230th day of 2012. There are 136 days left in the year.

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1912: The second movie inspired by the Titanic disaster, a German production titled “In Nacht und Eis” (In Night and Ice), is released. (Unlike the first, “Saved From the Titanic,” “In Nacht und Eis” still exists.)

1915: A mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who’d maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.)

1942: During World War II, U.S. 8th Air Force bombers attack German forces in Rouen, France.

U.S. Marines raid a Japanese seaplane base on Makin Island.

1943: The Allied conquest of Sicily is completed as U.S. and British forces enter Messina.

1962: East German border guards shoot and kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector.

1982: The first commercially produced compact discs, a recording of ABBA’s “The Visitors,” are pressed at a Philips factory near Hanover, West Germany.

1987: Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, dies at Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.

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1987: The Ungaro administration is trying to determine how to comply with a court order that six minority patrolmen be promoted to the rank of detective sergeant when only four passed the test.

Of the 19 plants that were producing standard pipe in the 1960s, only six remain and three of them are in the Shenango Valley. Sharon Tube, Sawhill Tube and Wheatland Tube employ about 1,200 people and produce 40 to 50 percent of the nation’s continuous-weld standard pipe.

1972: An $8.5 million, 24-story dormitory at Ohio State University may stand vacant when classes resume due to a decline in freshmen enrollment and changing life styles of students.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge George Buchwalter denies a request for custody of a 2-year-old boy filed by the boy’s father. The child had been living with his maternal grandparents following the death of his mother in June. The judge ruled that the father had abandoned his ailing wife and their boy.

1962: A Greyhound bus driven by Steve Amicarelli, 42, of Youngstown rams a steel-laden truck on the Ohio turnpike near Ravenna, killing one passenger and injuring 29 other people.

The restaurant and soft drink licenses of five Youngstown gambling spots are revoked by Mayor Harry Savasten.

1937: Mahoning Valley businesses are adapting to a new state law that limits working hours for women and minors to eight hours a day and 48 hours per week.

A contract for a $150,000 expansion of the Niles glass plant of the General Electric Co. is awarded to Heller-Murray Co. of Youngstown.