YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Aug. 5, the 218th day of 2016. There are 148 days left in the year.

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1864: During the Civil War, Union Adm. David G. Farragut leads his fleet to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala.

1884: The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal is laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor.

1924: The comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” by Harold Gray debuts.

1936: Jesse Owens of the United States wins the 200-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics, collecting the third of his four gold medals.

1957: The teenage dance show “American Bandstand,” hosted by Dick Clark, makes its network debut on ABC-TV.

1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, is found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death is ruled a probable suicide from “acute barbiturate poisoning.”

1966: The Beatles’ “Revolver” album is released in the United Kingdom on the Parlophone label; it is released in the United States three days later by Capitol Records. (Songs included “Eleanor Rigby” and “Yellow Submarine,” which are also issued as a double A-side single Aug. 5 and 8.)

1974: The White House releases transcripts of subpoenaed tape recordings showing that President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, had discussed a plan in June 1972 to use the CIA to thwart the FBI’s Watergate investigation; revelation of the tape would spark Nixon’s resignation.

2011: Standard & Poor’s lowers the United States’ AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus.

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1991: Speaking in Youngstown, U.S. Sen. John Glenn of Ohio says that if Quonset huts are good enough for U.S. Marines, they should be good enough for prisoners at a time when U.S. prisons are facing overcrowding.

Former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown, 82, dies at his home in Cincinnati.

Deb Richard wins the $75,000 championship of the Phar-Mor LPGA tournament at Squaw Creek Country Club in a sudden-death playoff with Jane Geddes.

1976: Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone will testify before the full Republican National Platform Committee on behalf of the U.S. Catholic Conference on domestic issues including the right to employment, decent income, housing and life.

Two masked men hold up the downtown office of the Metropolitan Savings & Loan., escaping with $11,000. A considerable amount of cash was available because it was payday for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

1966: A 500-foot-long swimming beach and 4 acres of prime picnic grounds open at Ohio’s newest state park on the fringes of Geneva-on-the-Lake.

A bill to include cost-of-living increases in Social Security benefits and to remove limitations on earnings by retired people is introduced by Rep. Frank Bow, a Canton Republican whose district includes part of Mahoning County.

Copperweld Steel Co. restarts its electric furnace and recalls 2,000 laid-off employees, and U.S. Steel Corp. adds an open hearth at its Ohio Works, bringing Youngstown district steel production to 85 percent of capacity.

1941: Congressional approval is expected to assure that work will begin on Berlin Reservoir by Sept. 1. The U.S. Army engineers have revised a cost estimate and now place it at $6.5 million.

Drummer Gene Krupa and his orchestra appear at Youngstown’s Palace Theater.

The control tower at Youngstown’s new municipal airport goes into operation with a staff of three.