Today is Monday, Aug. 1, the 214th day of 2016. There are 152 days left in the year.

August 1, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1714: Britain’s Queen Anne dies at age 49; she is succeeded by George I.

1876: Colorado is admitted as the 38th state.

1936: The Olympics opens in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

1946: President Harry S. Truman signs measures establishing the Fulbright Program and the Atomic Energy Commission.

1957: The U.S. and Canada agree to create the North American Air Defense Command.

1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, an engineering student at the University of Texas in Austin, goes on an armed rampage that kills 14 people, most of whom are shot by Whitman while he was perched in the clock tower of the main campus building. Whitman, who had also slain his wife and mother hours earlier, was finally gunned down by police.

1971: The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, takes place at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

1981: The rock-music video channel MTV debuts.

1994: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm they’d been secretly married 11 weeks earlier.

2006: Mel Gibson issues a statement in which he denies being a bigot; he also apologizes to “everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words” he’d used when he was arrested in a drunken-driving investigation.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Columbia Gas Service Inc., one of the largest suppliers of natural gas in the Northeast, files for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Hundreds of people are flocking each evening to a roadside shrine at the Society of St. Paul on Akron-Canfield Road in Ellsworth Township to witness what some have said are visions of the Virgin Mary.

Former Warren Police Chief Rudy Galgozy says he’s mulling a challenge of longtime Trumbull County Sheriff Richard Jakmas.

1976: Five of six Warren patrolmen scheduled for the morning shift call off sick, in what city officials say is a case of the “Blue Flu” inspired by massive layoffs of municipal employees. However, all six officers appeared for roll call for the afternoon turn.

Anastasia N. Przelomski is appointed managing editor of The Vindicator, becoming the first woman to hold the newsroom’s highest position. She succeeds Irving L. Mansell, who retired after holding the position for a record 27 years. Others receiving promotions are Catesby B. Cannon Jr., Clarence “Pete” Sheehan and Paul C. Jagnow.

1966: Air Force Capt. Charles E. Franklin, 32, of 1352 Rigby St., Youngstown, leads a flight of F-105 Thunderchiefs against North Vietnam, making 15 direct hits on the Cu Ban petroleum storage area near Hanoi.

More than 3,500 people attend the Youngstown Area Crusade for Christ at the Canfield Fairgrounds, where Lane Adams was the speaker.

Students in grades five through eight will study in a new intermediate school building south of New Middletown on Route 170 in 1967. The Springfield Local School District breaks ground for the $800,000 building.

1941: Dana’s Musical Institute of Warren, the most-famous musical school in the area, becomes part of Youngstown College. The Charles S. Thomas mansion on Wick Avenue is purchased to house the new school of music.

Youngstowners may now buy special U.S. Treasury notes to help finance defense and to take some sting out of income taxes through the large Youngstown banks. The area banks have received instruction on the handling of notes.

Clyde H. Hossel, well-known West Side businessman, will open his new store, Hossel Hardware Co., on Mahoning Avenue. He has been in the hardware business on the West Side for 20 years.