Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2012. There are 125 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) begins in Prince William County, Va., during the Civil War (the result is a Confederate victory).

1922: The first radio commercial airs on station WEAF in New York City (the 10-minute advertisement is for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid a fee of $100).

1955: Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he is found brutally slain three days later.

1963: More than 200,000 people listen as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1968: Police and anti-war demonstrators clash in Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominates Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

1990: An F5 tornado strikes the Chicago area, killing 29 people.

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1987: Weathersfield Township trustees approve a zone change request for 23 acres of land south of Interstate 80 on Salt Springs Road for a proposed $1.5 million truck stop.

A decision by the Sharon Steel Corp. to seek U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval to shut down its only operating blast furnace is “premature and unwarranted,” says Donald Massiotti, acting secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce.

1972: The senior corps of Niles Scot-Eres Baton Corps takes first place in international competition in Toronto, Canada.

Trading stamps, 49 money orders and an undetermined amount of cash are carted away by burglars who cut through the roof of the Kroger store at 2980 McCartney Road.

1962: A two-year-old Youngstown boy, Ralph Roberts, is in critical condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with lead poisoning, apparently from paint he ate from a banister in his home at 111 E. Woodland Ave.

Three Youngstown police characters are in the Summit County Jail, unable to post $50,000 bond after being arraigned on charges of breaking and entering at the South Plaza in Akron.

1937: Federal agents and Youngstown police raid an alleged house of ill fame at 929 Market St. and arrest six people, including a Pittsburgh area woman wanted for conspiracy to violate the white slavery act.

A branch of the Union Savings and Trust Co. of Warren will be opened in the former First State Bank building.