YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2015. There are 135 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1587: Virginia Dare becomes the first child of English parents to be born in present-day America, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina. (However, the Roanoke colony ended up mysteriously disappearing.)

1838: The first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government sets sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews travel the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information.

1846: U.S. forces led by General Stephen W. Kearny capture Santa Fe, N.M.

1914: President Woodrow Wilson issues his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

1920: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing all American women’s right to vote, is ratified as Tennessee becomes the 36th state to approve it.

1938: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicate the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

1955: The romantic drama “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones, has its world premiere in New York.

1963: James Meredith becomes the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., winds to a close after three nights with a midmorning set by Jimi Hendrix.

1976: Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Korea’s demilitarized zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attack U.S. and South Korean soldiers.

1983: Hurricane Alicia slams into the Texas coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than a billion dollars’ worth of damage.

1988: Vice President George H.W. Bush accepts the presidential nomination of his party at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.

1995: Shannon Faulkner, who’d won a 21/2-year legal battle to become the first female cadet at The Citadel, quits the South Carolina military college after less than a week, most of it spent in the infirmary.

2005: Cindy Sheehan, who’d started an anti-war demonstration near President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch nearly two weeks earlier, leaves the camp after learning her mother had suffered a stroke, but told supporters the protest would go on.

A judge in Wichita, Kan., sentences BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms, the maximum the law would allow.

2010: General Motors files the first batch of paperwork to sell stock to the public again, a significant step toward shedding U.S. government ownership a year after the automaker had filed for bankruptcy.

2014: Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon orders the National Guard to Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Niles schools officials are putting together a health education program to help students know more about the dangers of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

YSU Football Coach Jim Tressel says the team has voted five seniors as captains: Pete Rekstis, Tony Bowens, Archie Herring, Don Svec and Ray Ellington.

Youngstown police are arresting fewer teenagers on curfew violations, despite a summer filled with violent crime and neighborhood complaints about loiterers. So far in 1990 there have been 40 curfew arrests, compared with 53 during the same period in 1989.

1975: Linda Daniluk, 19, reigns as queen of Girard’s Bicentennial. Master of ceremonies of the queen’s pageant was WNIO disc jockey Boots Bell.

A strike by UAW Local 1714 at Fisher Body enters its second month, idling 9,400 auto workers at the Fisher Body and GMAD plant at Lordstown.

James M. Till is re-elected to his eighth term as president of the North Side Oldtimers.

1965: Charles J. Sheehan, 85, receives a diamond pin marking 60 years of membership in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He was an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1899 to 1951, when he retired at age 70.

The 34-member Trumbull County delegation pulls out of the Ohio Academy of General Practice convention in Toledo in a dispute over the state body’s move to create a specialty in general practice. Dr. Leonard Ozeroff of Warren said, “We want more doctors in Trumbull County, and feel we cannot get more family doctors by increasing the number of years of study.”

1940: Youngstown steelworkers have higher-than-average wages, and their cost of living is lower than average for the United States, the quarterly report of the Mahoning County Business Research organization shows.

Gill Preston, a 51-year-old blind World War I veteran, returns to Niles after three weeks of training in Minneapolis with his new seeing eye dog, Marko. The Niles Post 2074, Veterans of Foreign Wars, conducted a campaign to pay for the training.

Hundreds of ministers, delegates and visitors from Friends Churches in Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Virginia and North Carolina meet in the village of Damascus for the 128th annual Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends.