Sunday, August 19, 2012
Today is Sunday, Aug. 19, the 232nd day of 2012. There are 134 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1812: The USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812, earning the nickname “Old Ironsides.”
1909: The first automobile races are run at the just-opened Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1934: A plebiscite in Germany approves the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
1951: The owner of the St. Louis Browns, Bill Veeck, sends in 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel to pinch-hit in a game against Detroit. (In his only major league at-bat, Gaedel walks on four pitches and is replaced at first by a pinch-runner.)
1980: Three hundred and one people aboard a Saudi Arabian L-1011 die as the jetliner makes a fiery emergency return to the Riyadh airport.
1982: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya is the second woman to be launched into space.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: The Youngstown Revitalization Foundation “will survive” despite the city’s decision to impose restrictions on the way it can spend its money. City officials objected to YRF salaries, including that of Executive Director Julian Suso.
Youngstown State University will spend $1 million to renovate Cushwa Hall, which is 13 years old.
1972: More than 200 community leaders, businessmen and citizens honor the Rev. Morris W. Lee for his service as president of the board of directors of the Youngstown Area Community Action Council.
Claude Sowie, president of Ohio University, says during a visit to Youngstown that a proposal by former Ohio Chancellor John D. Miller that tuitions be increased y 90 percent at four-year state universities and cut by 29 percent at two-year institutions would hit middle class families the hardest.
1962: Sharon Mayor Myron W. Jones denies rumors that a lucrative barbut game is operating in a S. Water Avenue business establishment.
Sister Dorothy, the former Sara Leslie, and Sister Elizabeth, the former Mary Kupec, mark 50 years as Ursuline Sisters. Celebrating 25 years are Mother Jerome, the former Irene Corcoran; Sister Agnes, the former Mary Agnes Convery; Sister Anne, the former Anna Marie Lynch, and Sister Jeannette, the former Mary Catherine Doran.
1937: Federal narcotics agents and Youngstown police seize one of the largest crops of marijuana ever in Youngstown after six-foot tall plants are found growing around the foundation of a razed house in Himrod Avenue.
Youngstown Police Chief Carl L. Olson is ordered by Mayor Lionel Evans to investigate charges that members of the city’s four-man vice squad are protecting interests of the “Big House” local numbers outfit.