Today is Sunday, Aug. 7, the 220th day of 2016. There are 146 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, Aug. 7, the 220th day of 2016. There are 146 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1782: Gen. George Washinton creates the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and noncommissioned officers.

1789: The U.S. Department of War is established by Congress.

1882: The famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky erupts into full-scale violence.

1927: The already opened Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, is officially dedicated.

1942: U.S. and other allied forces land at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II. (Japanese forces abandoned the island the following February.)

1959: The United States launches the Explorer 6 satellite, which sends back images of Earth.

1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.

1974: French stuntman Philippe Petit repeatedly walks a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center.

1989: A plane carrying U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, and 14 others disappears over Ethiopia. (The wreckage of the plane was found six days later; there were no survivors.)

1998: Terrorist bombs at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania kill 224 people, including 12 Americans.

2000: Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selects Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate; Lieberman becomes the first Jewish candidate on a major party’s presidential ticket.

2005: ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings dies in New York at age 67.

2006: Oil prices jump after BP says it has discovered corrosion so severe it would have to replace 16 miles of pipeline at the huge Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.

Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe is sworn in for an unprecedented second term.

2010: Elena Kagan is sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

2011: The Treasury Department announces that Secretary Timothy Geithner has told President Barack Obama he would remain on the job, ending speculation he would leave.

Four adults and three children are killed by a gunman in Copley Township, Ohio; the shooter dies in a gunfight with police.

Former New York Gov. Hugh Carey, 92, dies on Shelter Island, N.Y.

Former Oregon governor and U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield, 89, dies in Portland.

2015: Colorado theater shooter James Holmes is spared the death penalty in favor of life in prison after a jury in Centennial fails to agree on whether he should be executed for his murderous attack on a packed movie premiere that left 12 people dead.

Former Food and Drug Administration employee Dr. Frances Kelsey, credited with preventing the U.S. distribution of thalidomide, a drug blamed for serious birth defects in the early 1960s, dies in London, Ontario, Canada at age 101.

Louise Suggs, 91, an LPGA founder and Hall of Famer, dies in Sarasota, Fla.

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1991: Red-hot chunks of metal fly hundreds of yards into hundreds of spectators watching the demolition of six radio towers in Boardman, injuring two people and damaging cars and houses.

General Extrusions Inc. closes its 8-year-old Georgia plant and consolidates work in Youngstown in a move that has added 40 jobs.

1976: With a little more than two weeks left before a collection deadline, only $3.5 million of Mahoning County’s $21 million charge for the second half of 1975 has been collected by Treasurer Michael Pope’s office.

Leonard King, son of Rev. and Mrs. J.L. King of Phillips Memorial Baptist Church, is ordained to the ministry after completing a course in theology at Malone College and Brunnerdale College.

Repairs on Youngstown Municipal Airport’s major runway, scheduled to begin in August, will be delayed until spring because of the possibility of getting more financial aid from the Federal Aviation Administration.

1966: Frank B. Warren, president of the Youngstown Area Development Foundation, feels Ohio’s aggressive new industrial development program, aimed by Gov. James A. Rhodes at luring hundreds of new factories, is proving a bonanza for Youngstown district plants.

Gary Thompson, of Canfield, Youngstown Soap Box Derby champion, coasts his racer to a first- round victory in the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, but came in second in the second heat.

Boardman Community Day will salute the businesses and industries of Boardman Township. A parade will start at Shields Road and Glenwood Avenue and proceed to the high school gymnasium. There will be a concert at the stadium.

1941: Seven traffic signals ordered by the Youngstown Board of Control have not yet been delivered because the Signal Service Corp. is working on defense orders.

Large crowds of shoppers jam Youngstown stores giving local merchants “the best Dollar Day we ever had,” according to Charles Nichols. Shoppers came from the five-county area.

The Trumbull County Board of Elections unanimously recommends buying voting machines for use throughout the county.