YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2015. There are 140 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1792: French revolutionaries imprison the royal family.

1846: The American flag is raised for the first time in Los Angeles.

1910: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, dies in London at age 90.

1934: The satirical comic strip “Li’l Abner,” created by Al Capp, makes its debut.

1946: Author H.G. Wells, 79, dies in London.

1960: The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite takes place with the help of Echo 1.

1981: In a ceremony at his California ranch, President Ronald Reagan signs a historic package of tax and budget reductions.

1995: Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle dies at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer; he was 63.

2010: Weighing in for the first time on a controversy gripping New York City and the nation, President Barack Obama endorses allowing a mosque near ground zero.

2014: Six people – including Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli – are killed when leftover ordnance believed to have been dropped in an Israeli airstrike blows up in the Gaza Strip.

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1990: Niles police round up 63 young people in sweeps designed to let them know that the city is enforcing its 11 p.m. curfew. Police take the names and addresses of those stopped and issue them warnings.

Clevelander Tom Lucci, a Chaney High graduate, wins the singles title of the Ohio Hardcourt Tennis Championships, beating George Barth, 63, 6-2, at Volney Rogers Courts.

1975: The Mahoning County Nursing Home has lost its accreditation from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and has not received Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements since June.

B and B Construction of Ohio Inc. submits the low bid of $6.1 million for construction of the new Downtown Post Office complex on the east end of Federal Plaza.

Unofficial sales figures show the Ohio Lottery generated sales of $106 million during its first 51 weeks of operation.

1965: The Youngstown Council of Churches must raise $17,000 by Aug. 31 to make up for a shortfall in what had been pledged for its operations. About $11,000 is owed to the outgoing executive director, the Rev. Samuel C. Sharp.

Mabel Lucille Snyder Beeghly, wife of L.A. Beeghly, one of the Mahoning Valley’s leading industrialists, dies after an illness of several months.

Part-time students with fewer than 12 hours per semester will no longer get student deferments from draft boards as quotas for military service are increased for the Vietnam conflict.

1940: Dr. Harry E. Welch, the retired city health commissioner who built the Youngstown Health Bureau and put into effect the disease-preventative measures that came to be taken for granted, dies in North Side hospital. He was 79.

City Council deadlocks on a vote needed to move the McGuffey housing project forward, signaling the death of what would have been the Youngstown Housing Authority’s second low-cost apartment complex.

Options are being taken by Akron financial leaders on 15,000 acres of farmland in eastern Portage County near Newton Falls for what may become the site of an important arms or aviation plant.