Years Ago

August 26, 2012 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, Aug. 26, the 239th day of 2012. There are 127 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1883: The island volcano Krakatoa begins cataclysmic eruptions, leading to a massive explosion the following day.

1910: Thomas Edison demonstrates for reporters his improved Kinetophone, a device for showing a movie with synchronized sound.

1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote, is certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.

1961: The original Hockey Hall of Fame is opened in Toronto.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson is nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic national convention in Atlantic City, N.J.

1968: The Democratic national convention opens in Chicago.

1972: The summer Olympics open in Munich.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: A Youngstown man is among three men indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland on charges stemming from a burglary at the American Shooting Range in North Jackson in which 21 guns, including three machine guns, were taken.

Three Youngstown teenagers are shaken and one burned by a lightning bolt that struck their tent while camping at Sea Lake Campground near Geauga Lake. Joseph Falleti, 14, was treated at the Akron Burn Center.

Trumpet star Maynard Ferguson performs with his jazz band, High Voltage, at the MetroPlex Centre in Liberty Township.

1972: Youngstown’s Soap Box Derby champion, Alan Rovder, is defeated in the 33rd heat of the first round at the Akron derby by David Magallanes of Venezuela.

Jesse Wilson, 71, is found in his Bridge Street home in Struthers beaten to death with a child’s air rifle, possibly during a robbery.

Bipartisan public support is being sought by a citizens group for construction of a stub canal to link the Youngstown-Warren area to the Ohio River.

1962: The “Cathedral of Tomorrow” will be built by the congregation of Calvary Temple on a 17-acre site at Kirk and Raccoon roads. Its cost is estimated at $400,000.

Dr. James J. Lapolla, a graduate of Niles McKinley High School and the medical school at Duke University, is serving as a resident physician in pediatrics at University Hospital in Cleveland.

1937: Don Martini, downtown club operator arrested on a charge of possessing gambling devices, says he was warned by the marble board syndicate to remove three slot machines from his establishment or police would raid the place.

A three-year search for Marie Miller, “Queen of the Gypsies,” wanted in Youngstown for swindling, ends with her arrest in Montreal, Canada, reportedly on a similar count.

More than 300 men, most members of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee who were fired by Republic Steel Corp., jam the county relief headquarters at 1500 Glenwood Ave. seeking money and clothes as their children prepare to return to school.

Downtown Youngstown merchants have put up special sales prices for “Suburban Day,” aimed at attracting shoppers from a radius of more than 20 miles from the city, stretching to New Castle, East Liverpool, Newton Falls and southern Ashtabula county.

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