Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2012. There are 131 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1485: England’s King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.

1851: The schooner America outraces more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that comes to be known as the America’s Cup.

1922: Irish revolutionary Michael Collins is shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had co-signed.

1932: The British Broadcasting Corp. conducts its first experimental television broadcast.

1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon are nominated for second terms in office by the Republican national convention in San Francisco.

1992: On the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter kills Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver (the sharpshooter says he was targeting the couple’s friend Kevin Harris, and didn’t see Vicki Weaver).

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: A 30-second commercial for the Avanti that will be produced in Youngstown by the New Avanti Motor Co. is filmed outside the Butler Institute for American Art; it will air nationally in September.

So far in 1987, 25 inventors at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren have been awarded patents by the U.S. Patent Office.

1972: Fraternal Order of Police leaders recommend that their members reject Youngstown’s latest contract offer of a 15 percent raise over two years.

Frank Clever of Canfield is killed when his tractor-trailer rams a freight train and bursts into flames in Route 224 near News Castle, Pa.

1962: The 117th Columbiana County Fair opens with a parade of decorated floats pulled by tractors.

Two historic Packard race cars, found in a Paris barn where they had been stored during World War II, have been restored by the Indianapolis Race Association. One is on display at the raceway museum while the other is on a U.S. tour. The cars were built in the 1920s for the Packard Cable Co. of Warren.

1937: Work will begin soon on $350,000 in improvements to Youngstown city schools under a WPA program announced by Congressman Michael J. Kirwan. The work will be spread over three years.

An armed bandit holds up an Isaly dairy store at 1408 Market St., escaping with $30.