YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2015. There are 131 days left in the year.

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1485: England’s King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.

1787: Inventor John Fitch demonstrates his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1846: Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaims all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.

1914: Austria-Hungary declares war against Belgium.

1932: The British Broadcasting Corp. conducts its first experimental television broadcast.

1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon are nominated for second terms in office by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

1962: French President Charles de Gaulle survives an attempt on his life in suburban Paris.

1968: Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.

1972: President Richard Nixon is nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.

1989: Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton is shot to death in Oakland, Calif. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson later was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.)

2014: Tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalate sharply as Moscow sends more than 130 trucks rolling across the border in what it said was a mission to deliver humanitarian aid.

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1990: Members of the Youngstown Peace Council dedicate a “peace pole,” an obelisk monument, in Wick Park.

Mel Fletcher of the North American Indian Cultural Center in Akron says at least 20 so-called American Indian organizations in Ohio “are totally phony and run by non-Indian people.”

Two weeks after Democrats reject the Cleveland area as a site for the party’s 1992 convention, a Republican convention site-selection committee is in the city.

1975: Youngstown State University is possibly the community’s greatest growth asset, President John J. Coffelt tells members of the Youngstown Board of Trade.

A Charolais-Angus weighing 1,150 pounds and raised by Pamela Phillis of Salem is named grand champion steer at the Columbiana County Fair. The steer sold at $1.35 a pound.

Helen Rhodes, wife of Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes, opens the Ohio State Fair, which registers attendance of 157,612 on the first day of its 12-day run.

1965: The Harvey S. Firestone homestead on Route 14 east of Columbiana has been completely restored to look as it did when it was built in 1828. It is the birthplace of Firestone, who founded Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.

Robert A. Williams, president of Lisbon Lumber Co., announces sale of the company to Carter- Jones Lumber Co. of Akron. The new company will be known as Cash-Way Lumber.

Columbiana County, No. 1 in apple production in Ohio, will pay $6 for the best apple pie at the county fair.

1940: Orville Wright, surviving brother of the team that pioneered U.S. aviation, is honored at the dedication of a granite monument to Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton.

A number of prominent Campbell citizens have joined the protest against the closing of Gordon School at a time when the school board also is seeking an addition to Memorial High School.

Goodyear Tire in Akron says it will increase production of synthetic rubber to 10,000 pounds a day as a hedge against the possibility that natural rubber supplies will be cut off.