YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 10, the 223rd day of 2016. There are 143 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1792: During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attack the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resides. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.)

1846: President James K. Polk signs a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.

1814: Henri Nestle, founder of the food and beverage company bearing his name, is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

1921: Franklin D. Roosevelt is stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.

1949: The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense.

1988: President Ronald Reagan signs a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who’d been interned by their government during World War II.

1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing. (McVeigh was convicted of murder and executed; Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Hazardous Materials Research will conduct an independent review of environmental issues related to a hazardous-waste incinerator being built in East Liverpool.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge William G. Houser acquits a West Side “fortune teller” who was charged with theft by deception for taking $44,650 over a one-year period in exchange for helping another woman rid her life of evil and bad luck.

1976: Mrs. Patricia Morris of Oak Street Extension files a $50,000 lawsuit against the Western Reserve Transit Authority, alleging that a bus driver put her 9-year-old son, Peter, off the bus near Kennedy Park Terrace, about 4 miles from his home.

Austintown trustees spend most of their meeting discussing ways to put an end to rain-caused flooded basements and streets in the Woodland Trace development.

Metropolitan Savings & Loan Association is moving its downtown Youngstown headquarters into Central Tower, which will be renamed Metropolitan Tower.

1966: Picket lines are set up at the Lordstown Ordnance Depot by members of two local unions protesting the use of nonunion personnel in emptying the depot, which is being deactivated by the Defense Department.

Ohio’s big-city congressmen, including Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown, vote almost solidly for the civil-rights bill passed by the U.S. House, while most Ohio legislators from rural districts are against it.

Local boards of education are assured of full reimbursement by the state for school buses that must be purchased to begin providing transportation for parochial-school students under a new state law.

1941: Weekend vacationers to Lake Erie will find the public bathing beaches closed for 30 miles east of Cleveland, as public officials press a drive against infantile paralysis.

Only one day remains for Mahoning County altar-bound couples to file marriage applications before the state’s new premarital physical exam showing freedom from communicable syphilis is effective, hiking the license cost from $14 to $16.

James Tobin, former Youngstown aviator, receives his wings in the Royal Air Force and soon will be flying British planes in Egypt.