Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 29, the 242nd day of 2012. There are 124 days left in the year.

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1877: The second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young, dies in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age 76.

1957: The Senate gives final congressional approval to a Civil Rights Act after South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ends a 24- hour filibuster.

2005: Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast near Buras, La., bringing floods that devastate New Orleans. More than 1,800 people in the region die.

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1987: Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says he will pursue elimination of the Park and Recreation Commission despite the refusal of the Youngstown Charter Review Commission to throw its support behind the proposal.

Youngstown plans to sell the 103-acre Lansdowne Airport to a partnership of Youngstowners for $105,000.

1972: Ten metropolitan Youngstown area financial institutions organize a reward association in an effort to combat the recent wave of robberies.

New Middletown is separated from Springfield Township by a vote of Mahoning County commissioners.

1962: Montovani, Britain’s highest paid orchestra leader, cancels his opening concert in the Monday Musical Series scheduled for Oct. 12 at Stambaugh Auditorium because he is undergoing surgery in London.

For the first time, Western Union in Youngstown is using the Telstar satellite to send messages to New York.

1937: “Industries grow; they can’t be planned because nobody knows on one day what will be developed the next,” Charles F. Kettering, head of General Motors Laboratories, tells a crowd of 5,000 at the dedication of a new $500,000 Packard Electric plant in Warren.

Armour R. Altman, secretary to Mayor Lionel Evans, urges repeal of a city ordinance that allows licenses for marble boards, which have been found to be illegal gambling devices by at least two Ohio courts.