YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Aug. 8, the 221st day of 2016. There are 145 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile.

1945: The Soviet Union declares war against Japan during World War II.

1953: The United States and South Korea initial a mutual security pact.

1968: The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard M. Nixon for president on the first ballot.

1974: President Richard M. Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day, after damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal.

2007: Space shuttle Endeavour roars into orbit; teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan is on board.

2009: Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Hispanic and third female justice.

2015: Several rivals of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticize his treatment of a debate moderator; the real-estate mogul refuses to apologize for saying on CNN that Megyn Kelly, who had aggressively questioned him during the primary debate on Fox News, had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” when she asked him about his incendiary comments toward women.

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1991: Mahoning County employees are paid less and have heavier workloads than many of their counterparts in comparably sized counties, according to a study by Youngstown State University’s Center for Urban Studies.

In response to an ongoing drought, the Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County tells home- owners to leave dishes of water out for small wild animals.

The United Steelworkers union asks the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for permission to sue GF Corp.’s successor, Tang Industries, to pay $1 million the union says it is owed by the company.

1976: The 1,000-foot MV James R. Barker, one of a giant breed of Great Lakes ships that are ushering in a new era for the Youngstown district steel industry, is christened. It will haul taconite pellets to Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Indiana Harbor Works.

The body of Loretta Hobbs, daughter of Youngstown Municipal Judge Lloyd Haynes, is recovered in Los Angeles coastal waters a week after she was swept overboard from a 25-foot cabin cruiser.

Representatives of GF Business Equipment Inc. and the United Steelworkers union will meet again in an attempt to end a five-week strike that has idled 1,200 workers.

1966: Michael Raddick, a 1935 graduate of Leetonia High School, speaks on “Small Town vs. City” at the triennial alumni banquet attended by 500 at Orchard Hill School in Leetonia.

The Xi Delta Upsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi will work with the Warren chapter on the annual style show and card party at Packard Music Hall for the benefit of the Frances Willard School for the Blind.

Lane Adams tells 4,000 people during the seventh session of the Crusade for Christ at Canfield Fairgrounds that the world’s problems seem beyond human ability to solve.

1941: The clouds of smoke that have poured from the chimney of Hotel Pick-Ohio downtown are to be a thing of the past when an automatic stoker is installed, manager Del Courtney says.

A contract is awarded to Heller Bros. Co. for construction of the first unit of the Trinity Methodist building at a cost of $250,000. Demolition of the present church parish house and parsonage has begun.

Trustees of the Stambaugh Estate file suit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court seeking forfeiture of the Municipal Golf Course from the city back to the estate because the city has failed to extend Fifth Avenue through the golf course to Church Hill-Hubbard Road as Stambaugh had intended.