Today is Monday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2015. There are 143 days left in the year.

August 10, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1793: During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attack the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resides. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.)

1821: Missouri becomes the 24th state.

1846: President James K. Polk signs a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.

I921:Franklin D. Roosevelt is stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.

1945: A day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveys its willingness to surrender provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remains unchanged. (The Allies responded the next day, saying they would determine the Emperor’s future status.)

1949: The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense.

1988: President Ronald Reagan signs a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who’d been interned by their government during World War II.

1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing.

2010: The House pushes through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats say will save 300,000 teachers, police and others from layoffs.

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1990: State Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich III of Poland, D-52nd, is named by House Speaker Vern Riffe Jr. to a 13-member committee that will look into possible price gouging by oil companies in the wake of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

As the first U.S. troops arrive in Saudi Arabia, Sam Bahour, a leader in the Arab-American community in the Mahoning Valley, denounces President Bush for deploying military troops to the region. The U.S. can’t control the whole world, he says.

Federal officials say they will continue to pay the city of Warren to house federal inmates in the city jail, despite an ongoing probe into possible sexual activity among inmates. The city houses an average of six federal prisoners for whom it is paid $50 each per day.

1975: Nine U.S. senators, U.S. Rep. Wilbur Mills and the late U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown are among the recipients of $724,000 in illegal ampaign contributions by Ashland Oil Co.

Phyllis Edwards, a 1965 graduate of Warren G. Harding High School, receives a doctor of medicine degree from Stanford University Medical School.

Five widely known Ursuline nuns celebrate their golden jubilee at the Ursuline Motherhouse on Shields Road. They are Sisters Florence Mulhall, Christine Carroll, Immaculata Carroll, Kathleen Kelly and Jean Marie Eskay.

1965: L.F. Donnell Ford is awarded a contract for 10 cars and four trucks for the Youngstown Water Department at a cost of $27,190, minus a trade-in of $1,050.

With Girard Mayor Philip Cretella’s permission to extend Girard’s strict curfew from 8 to 11 p.m. on Wednesdays, the Record Hop Dance Club resumes at Avon Oaks Ballroom. Couples 13 through 18 from Girard, Liberty and McDonald schools only may attend.

A truck carrying an electric-arc furnace becomes wedged under a B&O Railroad overpass on Robbins Avenue in Niles. It was extracted by reducing the air pressure in its tires.

1940: Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola says that since the state says it cannot help until October, he will launch a local investigation into purported irregularities by the Youngstown Civil Service Commission. He suggests city employees interested in having the charges investigated could voluntarily contribute to defraying the cost.

Seven Youngstown men and one from Canfield are among the 248 people who pass the Ohio State Bar examination. Eighty applicants failed. The local men are Veto Adamo, Frank F. Baldwin, Edwin R. Jonas Jr., John J. Lynch Jr., Wilbert B. McBride, Ferdinand R. Montani, Sherburt S. Weiss and John C. Zieger.

Robert L. Wertman, student editor of the Ohio University Post, responds to criticism from the Athens Messenger and the Athens American Legion, saying there is nothing “Communistic” about the student newspaper’s editorial opposing the military draft. He writes, “the young citizens who are going to be affected have a democratic right to express their opinions.”