YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2015. There are 130 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1775: Britain’s King George III proclaims the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”

1914: Japan declares war against Germany in World War I.

1926: Silent film star Rudolph Valentino dies in New York at age 31.

1927: Amid protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

1960: Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, 65, dies in Doylestown, Pa.

1989: In a case that inflamed racial tensions in New York, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black youth, is shot dead after he and his friends are confronted by a group of white youths in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. (Gunman Joey Fama was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison; he will be eligible for parole in 2022.)

2005: Israeli forces evict militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.

2014:: Israel bombs an apartment tower in downtown Gaza City, collapsing the 12-story building in an unprecedented strike.

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1990: The permanent Packard Museum officially opens in the Kinsman House on Mahoning Avenue Northwest in Warren. James McFarland is president of the Packard Museum Association.

Duane and Marge Pluche close the Korner Dairy at Robbins and Fulton avenues in Niles after operating the neighborhood landmark for 30 years.

The 910th Tactical Airlift Group at the Youngstown Air Reserve Base will receive eight C130-H aircraft to replace its aging fleet of C130-B planes.

1975: Liberty police arrest six people after a month-long investigation into employee thefts totaling $40,000 at the Jewel Mart store in the Liberty Plaza.

Dr. Abe L. Hammons, superintendent of the Bards- town, Ky., school system, is hired as superintendent of the Warren City School District.

Steve Pipoly of Tippecanoe Country Club wins the Ohio Seniors Golf Association tournament in Mansfield, edging out Lou Martin of Martins Ferry Belmont Country Club. Dr. Frank Bellino of Youngstown was fourth.

1965: Dr. Edwin W. Brown Jr., formerly of Youngstown, is named program director of Project Vietnam, an effort to send 20 volunteer doctors to South Vietnam every two months.

Daniel Donatelli and Daneen M. Julio are awarded “YU” pins at commencement exercises at Stambaugh Auditorium. The pins are awarded to graduating students with the most honor points in scholastic and extracurricular activities.

Henry R. Reedy Jr. and Jon D. Santaga, graduates of Duquesne University, pass the Ohio Pharmacy Board examinations.

Joan Mazza is crowned queen of Girard’s Homecoming before a capacity crowd at St. Rose Gymnasium.

1940: Trambus service to Campbell replacing street cars is approved by directors of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co.

Firefighters from Youngstown, Warren, Ravenna, Newton Falls, Sebring, Austintown and Windham respond to a fire that broke out at the Universal Sewer Pipe Co.

Thirteen-year-old Wayne Galbraith of Niles, a deaf mute, is killed by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight locomotive on the railroad’s “old main” Park Avenue crossing less than 100 feet from the boy’s home at 5418 W. Park Ave.