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Today is Monday, Aug. 15, the 228th day of 2016. There are 138 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1057: Macbeth, King of Scots, is killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.

1483: The Sistine Chapel is consecrated by Pope Sixtus IV.

1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn takes place as Potawatomi warriors attack a U.S. military garrison of about 100 people. (Most of the garrison was killed, while the remainder was taken prisoner.)

1914: The Panama Canal officially opens as the SS Ancon crosses the just-completed waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

1935: Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when their airplane crashes near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.

1939: The MGM musical “The Wizard of Oz” opens at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1945: In a pre-recorded radio address, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announces that his country has accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.

1947: India becomes independent after some 200 years of British rule.

1965: The Beatles play to a crowd of more than 55,000 at New York’s Shea Stadium.

1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in upstate New York.

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1991: Of 13 metropolitan areas of Ohio, 10, including Warren-Youngstown, send more tax money to Washington than they get back in the form of military contracts and salaries, according to a report by Michigan-based Employment Research Associates.

Ohio Bell and the city of Salem sign a contract that will allow the Salem Utility Department to read water meters over the phone.

1976: Youngstown State University’s Executive House, once the home of Dr. Howard Jones, president emeritus of the university, is razed to make way for construction of a pedestrian overpass over Wick Avenue.

Cardinal Mooney High School’s varsity cheerleaders will compete in the U.S. Cheerleading Association’s national finals at Lansing, Mich. Members of the squad are Beth Maiorana, Debbie Delahunty, Debbie Noday, Carla Corroto, Barb Zappi, Sue Mulholland, Mary Ellen Brown and Susan Dudash.

Baseball Town USA Oldtimers ball team will travel by bus from Youngstown to Falconer, N.Y., to play the Oldtimers of Jamestown. This is the ninth season for the Youngstown team.

1966: Paulette Breen of Youngstown, a student at Bowling Green, wins a contest for the new Miss Ohio News Photographer at Cedar Point. Kathy Simerlink, also of Youngstown, is runner-up.

The Rev. and Mrs. William Slates of Grace Lutheran Church of Hubbard are honored on their 25th wedding anniversary.

The Beatles hide in a trailer for 15 minutes to avoid being mobbed by fans at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium.

1941: Charles A. Lindbergh’s speech in Cleveland, in which he charged that our national government is governing by subterfuge, stirs W. C. Burbank, a wounded World War I veteran from Warren, to write to U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan taking issue with Lindbergh on every point.

The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will present its last open-air pop concert at the Mansion, with Carmine Ficocelli directing. General admission is 35 cents, but a $1 ticket entitles the holder to stay for dancing afterward.

The radio station at the Youngstown Municipal Airport control tower is given call letters WJRE, the initials of airport manager John R. Elliot, with the traditional “W” prefix.