YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, August 9, the 221st day of 2015. There are 144 days left in the year.

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1842: The United States and Canada resolve a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.

1854: Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described Thoreau’s experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, is first published.

1902: Edward VII is crowned king of Britain following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order nationalizing silver.

1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States takes first place in the 400- meter relay.

1945: Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States explodes a nuclear device over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.

1969: Actress Sharon Tate and four other people are found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers are later convicted of the crime.

1974: Vice President Gerald R. Ford becomes the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Richard Nixon’s resignation takes effect.

1995: Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, dies in Forest Knolls, Calif., of a heart attack eight days after turning 53.

2005: The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven safely returned to Earth, ending a 14-day safety test that was shadowed by the Columbia tragedy. Charles McCoy Jr.

2014: Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-year-old black man, is shot to death by a police officer after an altercation in Ferguson, Mo.; Brown’s death led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cities, spawning a national “Black Lives Matter” movement.

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1990: Crossing guards won’t be guiding Youngstown children across city streets when schools reopen until city and school officials agree on how to fund the program.

Giant Eagle launches a program at its 110 stores in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia that allows customers to “Round Up for the Hungry.” Grocery bills are rounded up to the nearest 50 cents, dollar or $5, with the money going to the Salvation Army or community food pantries.

Pamela Richards, a UAW worker at a Chrysler Corp. plant in Toledo, says her comment was edited out of the Ohio Lottery broadcast when she took $1,000 in cash rather than a $17,000 Honda Accord. Her comment: “I don’t want that Honda. I am union.”

1975: Youngstown City Council votes to spend $75,000 for the planning of an extension of Federal Plaza from Phelps Street to Fifth Avenue.

Following a stormy four-hour meeting, City Council approves water-rate increases of 7.5 percent for in-city residents and 42 percent for suburban water customers. Robert Spencer, D-6th, and Ronald Schroeder, R-7th, argued that suburban users should carry the full burden of increased wholesale water rates being charged by the MVSD.

Mayor Jack C. Hunter administers the oath of office to three new Youngstown patrolmen: Craig A. Sciortino, Harry J. Wollet and David J. Williams.

1965: A school planetarium, first of its kind in the area, is part of the $1 million remodeling at Hickory Junior High School near Sharon, Pa.

Youngstown University is running out of rooms for women for the fall semester. Anyone in the area with rooms available is asked to call the office of Dean of Women.

A non-stop Chicago to New York United Air Lines flight makes an unscheduled stop at Youngstown Municipal Airport to pick up 55 passengers stranded after their DC-6 developed engine trouble after taking off from Akron-Canton airport.

Mahoning County sheriff’s deputies join with police officers along the Ohio Turnpike in a probe of a gang of thieves that is burglarizing cars near turnpike exits.

1940: The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority has stopped taking applications for apartments at Westlake Terrace after receiving 925 qualifying applications for the 618 units.

Youngstown National Guardsmen leave for three weeks of maneuvers with the Second Army of the United States in Wisconsin. About 70,000 men will participate.

Donna Willock, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Willock of Austintown, drowns in Lake Milton a week after her older brother, Earl Jr., 14, was killed while riding his bicycle in Canfield-Austintown Road.