YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, August 1, the 213th day of 2015. There are 152 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1714: Britain’s Queen Anne dies at age 49; she was succeeded by George I.

1876: Colorado is admitted as the 38th state.

1907: The U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.

1913: The Joyce Kilmer poem “Trees” is first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.

1936: The Olympics opens in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

1944: An uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasted two months before collapsing.

1957: The United States and Canada agree to create the North American Air Defense Command.

1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, goes on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas in Austin, killing 14 people. Whitman, who also had slain his wife and mother hours earlier, is gunned down by police.

1971: The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, takes place at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

1975: A 35-nation summit in Finland concludes with the signing of a declaration known as the Helsinki Accords dealing with European security, human rights and East-West contacts.

1981: The rock music video channel MTV debuts.

2007: The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, collapses into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour, killing 13 people.

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1990: An activist clergyman, the Rev. William J. Witt, asks for added police protection for demonstrators at the Mahoning Women’s Center on Market Street after he and other abortion proponents were struck by a van.

Creditors of GF Corp. ask the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to liquidate the company’s assets.

The Hubbard Board of Education says it will not rescind a change in the elementary-school day that was not on the agenda and was passed after the board emerged from an executive session. The school day previously started at 8 a.m. and ended at 2:10 p.m. The new hours are 8:30 a.m. to 3:10 p.m.

1975: Sizzling summer heat continues in the Youngstown district with a high of 92, tieing the record for Aug. 1 set in 1952.

Edmund Salata, city engineer, orders the Poland Contracting Co., which built Federal Plaza, to make repairs to the floral fountain in the east sector to prevent water leakage into an old tunnel connecting the Realty and Stambaugh buildings.

A bill creating a new Trumbull County Domestic Relations-Juvenile Court judge sponsored by state Rep. Robert Nader , D-55th, Warren, passes the House of Representatives.

1965: The new Medicare law will give an annual boost of $5.9 million to the economy of Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Mercer and Lawrence counties.

Linda Diehm of Poland, valedictorian of the June class, will live and study for a year in Switzerland as part of the AFS program.

Once again, Trumbull County traffic fatalities are far behind Mahoning County, with only 28 in the county, including two in Warren, compared with 45 in Mahoning County, including 24 in Youngstown. In 1964, Trumbull County had 18 traffic fatalities; Mahoning had 50.

1940: The temperature drops to 61 degrees in Youngstown, bringing at least temporary relief to the hot spell, but city hospitals report two more deaths from the heat, Vincent Langorva, 52, and Michael Olenick, 51.

Ernest C. Durbin, 57, of New Castle, Pa., is one of 43 people killed when a freight train and a Pennsylvania passenger train collide near Cuyahoga Falls.

Children swim for free in the mornings at the new Struthers swimming pool in Yellow Creek Park.