YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2015. There are 124 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1533: The last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, is executed on orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.

1814: During the War of 1812, Alexandria, Va., formally surrenders to British military forces, which occupy the city until Sept. 3.

1864: The Democratic National Convention, which nominates Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan for president, opens in Chicago.

1877: The second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young, dies in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age 76.

1915: Academy Award-winning actress Ingrid Bergman is born in Stockholm, Sweden. (Bergman died in London on this date in 1982 at age 67.)

1935: The film “Top Hat,” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

1944: Some 15,000 American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continues to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.

1958: Pop superstar Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Ind.

1964: Roy Orbison’s single “Oh, Pretty Woman” is released on the Monument label.

2005: Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast near Buras, La., bringing floods that devastate New Orleans. More than 1,800 people in the region died.

2010: Five years after Hurricane Katrina’s wrath, President Barack Obama seeks to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents during a speech at Xavier University that he would not abandon their cause.

“Mad Men” receives its third-consecutive Emmy Award for best drama series; “Modern Family” wins for best comedy series.

2014: A federal judge throws out new Texas abortion restrictions that would have effectively closed more than a dozen clinics statewide in a victory for opponents of tough new anti-abortion laws sweeping across the U.S. (The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later ruled that Texas could fully implement the abortion law, but the Supreme Court later said the clinics should be allowed to operate, pending appeal.

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1990: Youngstown Board of Education member Don L. Hanni III accuses city and school leaders of shirking the responsibility of administering a crossing-guard program.

Sharon Mayor Robert T. Price says he doesn’t believe that putting the former Westinghouse Electric plant on the national Superfund list will slow industrial redevelopment of the site.

James B. Williams III, who was charged in the deaths of his father, stepmother and half sister but was convicted only of manslaughter in the death of his stepmother, is entitled to half of his father’s $50,000 life- insurance policy, a federal court rules. Williams is serving eight to 25 years on the manslaughter conviction.

1975: Work continues to lag at Youngstown State University on a number of projects, including the new technical college, because of work stoppages in the construction industry.

Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin launches an unexpected investigation of claimed sexual irregularities at the Mahoning County jail.

Two onlookers who police say attempted to incite a riot while firemen fought an arson at 415 Cohasset Drive are arrested on disturbance charges. Four patrolmen suffer minor injuries, including Sgt. Gerald Ross and Patrolman Larry Kovac, who accidentally sprayed each other with chemical Mace while subduing one of the men.

1965: The Youngstown Area United Appeal of the Community Chest and Red Cross will have a goal of $1.6 million, chairman John P. Morgan announces.

Trumbull County Sheriff Robert Barnett says he needs five deputies added to his force of 19 to provide the police protection that the county requires.

Three model suites in Youngstown’s tallest high-rise apartment building, the Park V on Fifth Avenue, are open for inspection. The complex has 40 one-bedroom, 23 two-bedroom and 22 three-bedroom suites.

1940: Langdon Post, consultant for the U.S. Housing Authority, and Atty. Lamar Jackson will debate on WFMJ radio the merits of the proposed low-cost McGuffey housing development.

Four buffalo owned by Gatewood Rodeo disappear from the Canfield Fairgrounds after breaking through a corral fence. Rodeo cowboys are searching a 200-acre thicket east of the fairgrounds into which the buffalo are believed to have escaped.

Youngstown City Council refuses to authorize the board of control to seek new bids on an excavation contract at the municipal airport that is held by the M. DeBartolo Co.