YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2015. There are 125 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1609: English explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reach present-day Delaware Bay.

1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) begins in Prince William County, Va., during the Civil War; the result was a Confederate victory.

1922: The first radio commercial airs on station WEAF in New York City; the 10-minute advertisement is for the Queensboro Realty Co., which paid a fee of $100.

1944: During World War II, German forces in Toulon and Marseille, France, surrender to Allied troops.

1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he supposedly had whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally slain three days later.

1963: More than 200,000 people listen as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1968: Police and war protesters clash in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominates Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

1972: Mark Spitz of the United States wins the first two of his seven gold medals at the Munich Olympics, finishing first in the 200-meter butterfly and anchoring the 400-meter freestyle relay.

1990: An F5 tornado strikes the Chicago area, killing 29 people.

1995: A mortar shell tears through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing some three dozen people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.

2005: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin orders everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grows to a monster storm.

2014: Comedian Joan Rivers is rushed to New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital after she suffers cardiac arrest at a doctor’s office where she’d gone for a routine outpatient procedure. (Rivers died a week later at age 81.)

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1990: The Canfield Junior Citizens Club, which broadcast pages at the Canfield Fair for 30 years at 25 cents per announcement, says it may disband since the fair board outlawed the announcements with the opening of the 1990 fair.

The mystery of Trumbull County’s missing 15,000 gallons of gasoline is solved, Commissioner Anthony A. Latell says, with the discovery of a small hole in the bottom of a storage tank at the rear of the sheriff’s department, which allowed the gasoline to leak into the soil.

General Motors Corp., the world’s largest automaker, plans to install air bags on the driver’s side of all its cars built in the United States by the fall of 1995.

1975: A jury in U.S. District Court in Cleveland absolves Ohio Gov. James Rhodes and 28 others of liability in the shootings that killed four students at Kent State University and wounded nine others. The plaintiffs, including the parents of Sandra Scheuer of Boardman, say they will appeal. “You have now found out that you do not have any safeguards when you stand up against the militia,” Sarah Scheuer said.

Dr. William Coffield, a former academic vice president at Youngstown State University, urges 464 new YSU graduates to oppose the trend toward mediocrity and search for quality in their lives.

The Youngstown- Mahoning County Bicentennial Commission officially launches its bicentennial activities as part of the opening of the Canfield Fair.

1965: More than 3,500 people participate in events ranging from a parade to a dance to mark McGuffey Day, sponsored by the McGuffey Centre in Youngstown.

The Belmont Branch of the Public Library moves 28,000 books to its new building at 1344 Fifth Ave. The books traveled in cardboard boxes purchased from the old Renner Brewing Co., which were chosen for their sturdiness and hand-holes that made them easy to carry.

Mrs. Joseph Mitchell, Southern Boulevard, entertains Daughters of Penelope during which plans are discussed for an antique flea market and bake sale to take place at the Old Bar on South Avenue Extension.

1940: Youngstown is chosen by the Ohio American Legion as the site of its 1941 state convention, which could draw as many as 25,000 veterans of the World War and their families to the city.

The federal government is seeking return of $5,877 in Works Progress Administration money purportedly spent on lowering water mains owned by the Ohio Water Service, a privately owned company.

Louis Curry of Hine Street, alleged proprietor of a gambling house, is given a suspended fine of $1 by Municipal Court Judge Peter B. Mulholland. Police say Curry has been arrested three times within 10 days on similar charges.