YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Aug. 12, the 225th day of 2016. There are 141 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1867: President Andrew Johnson sparks a move to impeach him as he defies Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

1898: Fighting in the Spanish-American War ends.

1939: The MGM movie musical “The Wizard of Oz,” starring Judy Garland, has its world premiere at the Strand Theater in Oconomowoc, Wis., three days before opening in Hollywood.

1941: Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, head of the government of Vichy, France, calls on French citizens to give full support to Nazi Germany.

1944: During World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, is killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blows up over England.

1981: IBM introduces its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.

1985: The world’s worst single-aircraft disaster occurs as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashes into a mountain, killing 520 people.

2015: Former President Jimmy Carter announces he has been diagnosed with cancer after recent liver surgery.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Some city officials believe Youngstown’s new $6.50-per-month garbage collection fee will encourage illegal dumping, which is particularly troublesome on the South and East sides.

1976: FBI agents arrest four Youngstown area men in the June 18 robbery of the First National Bank of Salem’s Damascus Branch. The robbers took $6,386.

A fire in a window display at Lustig’s downtown shoe store sets off the sprinklers, causing an estimated loss of $100,000.

One of the Youngstown district’s oldest remaining blast furnaces, the Shenango Inc. stack at Sharpsville, is demolished by a wrecking crew.

1966: An ordinance authorizing the city to join the state in construction of the remainder of the Mahoning-West Federal expressway is adopted by city council. The project will cost $6.5 million.

The H.C. Nutting Co. of Cincinnati will begin test drillings in Central Square, a preliminary step toward redesign of the square.

Youngstown City Council amends the franchise agreement with Ohio Edison Co. for lighting city streets to reflect a $22,000 annual decrease made possible by mercury-vapor lighting fixtures.

Youngstown police and dog wardens find 20 dogs, about 20 live cats and 12 dead cats, two dead monkeys and several live or dead guinea pigs, mice, rabbits, turtles and birds in an abandoned apartment on Market Street. Many of the animals starved to death. The whereabouts of the tenant is unknown.

1941: Bread prices advance 1 cent a loaf on all brands, boosting the 20-ounce loaf bought by most people to 11 cents.

One hundred and thirty-two altar-bound couples rush to beat the state’s new marriage law making a syphilis test mandatory, causing marriage-license clerk Gomer Evans to work six hours of overtime in the biggest single day of business in the county’s history.

Mahoning County Health Commissioner Dr. S.G. Patton threatens to refuse permit renewals for several garbage collectors in the county if they do not equip their trucks with leak-proof material and don’t burn, instead of bury, garbage.

A spectacular fire that could be seen for 10 miles destroys the H.J. Beardsley dairy barn near Canfield and kills 23 cattle.