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Today is Saturday, Aug. 13, the 226th day of 2016. There are 140 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1624: King Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu his first minister.

1792: French revolutionaries imprison the royal family.

1846: The American flag is raised for the first time in Los Angeles.

1910: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, dies in London at age 90.

1934: The satirical comic strip “Li’l Abner,” created by Al Capp, debuts.

1946: Author H.G. Wells, 79, dies in London.

1961: East Germany seals off the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.

1995: Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle dies at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer; he was 63.

2011: Seven people are killed when a stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair during a powerful storm just before a concert was to begin.

2015: The New York Times reports that DNA testing has proved that President Warren G. Harding from Ohio fathered a child with long-rumored mistress Nan Britton, according to AncestryDNA, a division of Ancestry.com.

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1991: Youngstown city football games will be played during the day to help prevent post-game violence.

Two local companies express interest in the last available site in the Salt Springs Industrial Park, Graybar Electric Co. and Tri-State Laboratories.

State Rep. Michael Verich of Warren, D-59th, long an advocate of mini-steel mills, believes the Mahoning Valley is the ideal setting for another mini-concept, beer brewery.

1976: Fire rages out of control in downtown Lisbon, destroying the Buckeye Publishing Co., Columbiana County Sheltered Workshop and a county welfare department office. The loss is estimated at $1 million.

A new Niles McKinley Federal Savings and Loan Association office is being constructed at 5995 Youngstown-Warren Road at a cost of $700,000.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections eliminates six voting precincts in the city of Youngstown because of declining population, but the county will still have 400 precincts because six were added to jurisdictions outside the city.

1966: The need for more jobs for young people and to meet the demands of a growing population is stressed by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes to several thousand people in front of Poland Village Hall during a ceremony to mark the village’s centennial.

Carter Lewis scatters four hits and posts 15 strikeouts in hurling Youngstown to an 8-0 win over San-Ott-Wood in the PONY League tournament at Ashland.

St. Rocco’s Episcopal Church observes its Patronal Saint’s Feast with a procession through the streets of Brier Hill.

1941: Tear gas ends a scrap between members of rival political factions at the R&T Grill on Wilson Avenue, but the details remain a mystery. A tear gas gun was discharged while about 20 political supporters were in the restaurant.

With all six furnaces in operation, Youngstown’s rebuilt incinerator is burning a daily peak of 110 tons of garbage. Disposal officials say the incinerator’s capacity has not been overtaxed.

L.F. Donnell Inc. is awarded the contract for two new patrol cars for Sheriff Ralph Elser with a bid of $1,733.

When thousands of American Legion delegates meet for the annual state convention in Youngstown, they will debate war aid for Britain and Russia and a proposal to ban lotteries in Legion posts.