YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, August 9, the 222nd day of 2016. There are 144 days left in the year.

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1842: The U.S. and Canada resolve a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.

1854: Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which describes Thoreau’s experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, is first published.

1902: Edward VII is crowned king of Britain after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order nationalizing silver.

1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics.

1945: Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar drops a nuclear device (“Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.

1969: Actress Sharon Tate and four other people are found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers are later convicted of the crime.

1974: Vice President Gerald R. Ford becomes the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation took effect.

1995: Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, dies in Forest Knolls, Calif., of a heart attack eight days after turning 53.

2014: Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-year-old black man, is shot to death by a police officer after an altercation in Ferguson, Mo; Brown’s death would lead to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cities.

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1991: The man in charge of dismantling six radio towers in Boardman says he blew up cans of gasoline to give spectators a better show. Debris from the explosions showered spectators, two of whom required hospital treatment.

Drew Todd, urban forestry coordinator for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, says an ongoing drought will mean fall leaves will not have the brilliance of other years.

Shuttle astronaut Ron Parise, a Warren native, tells the crowd at the kick-off breakfast for Warren’s Italian-American Heritage Festival that his Italian heritage provided a strong base for his success as an astronaut.

1976: Dr. Richard D. Murray, Youngstown plastic surgeon, writer and patron of the arts, will be invested as a member of the Ancient Knights of Malta under the Russian Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis promotes two deputies, Capt. Marshall B. Coney and Lt. Anthony W. Caplan.

The PLEXCO plant in North Lima marks 15 years of coating steel pipe with yellow plastic for use as underground natural-gas pipeline.

1966: Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask and Finance Director Thomas Lavern ask the Mahoning County Budget Commission for $700,000 from the local government fund because of the sagging economy.

Youngstown officials urge motorist entering the city on the Market Street Bridge to use alternate routes to reduce mounting traffic congestion near Front Street.

Columbiana Mayor Dale Kampfer dismisses charges against three drivers charged with violating the “no-through-truck” ordinance, saying it is “unconstitutional.”

1941: Local draft boards say parents of draft-age youths and unwise young girls are to blame for the rise of sudden marriages, many of which already are on the rocks.

John Carney, executive secretary to Youngstown’s mayor, is not quite 22 but is the city’s busiest business executive. His enlistment in the Army is going to leave a gap at City Hall.

Dolphus Wooten, 17, of Meadville, Pa., is killed and 10 others injured when two cars jump the track on the roller coaster at Craig Beach Park and plunge 15 feet to the ground.