Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 16, the 229th day of 2016. There are 137 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1777: American forces win the Battle of Bennington in what is considered a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1812: Detroit falls to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
1858: A telegraphed message from Britain’s Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan is transmitted over the recently laid trans- Atlantic cable.
1937: The American Federation of Radio Artists is chartered.
1948: Baseball legend Babe Ruth dies in New York at age 53.
1954: Sports Illustrated is first published by Time Inc.
1962: The Beatles fire their original drummer, Pete Best, replacing him with Ringo Starr.
1976: The ABBA single “Dancing Queen” is released in Sweden.
1977: Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.
1978: James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tells a Capitol Hill hearing he did not commit the crime, saying he’d been set up by a mysterious man called “Raoul.”
1987: 156 people are killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes while trying to take off from Detroit; the sole survivor is 4-year-old Cecelia Cichan.
1991: Pope John Paul II begins the first papal visit to Hungary.
2006: New York City officials release new tapes of hundreds of heart-wrenching phone calls from the World Trade Center on 9/11, along with other emergency transcripts.
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1991: Nicole Long, 16, of Warren is named Miss Italian Fest on opening day of the annual festival in Youngstown.
Ohio officials say about 7,000 Ohio homeowners will be able to benefit from low-interest mortgages after the sale of $379 million in tax-free bonds. First-time homeowners will be able to get mortgages at rates as low as 7.62 percent.
Blaming a “seriously depressed bar market,” Warren steelmaker CSC Industries posts a net loss of $10.7 million, or 47 cents per share, in the second quarter.
1976: More than 100 Youngstown-area Republicans are among the throngs in Kansas City for the opening ceremonies of the 31st Republican National Convention, where Gov. Ronald Reagan of California is attempting to wrest the nomination from President Gerald Ford.
The Pennsylvania fire marshal’s office is called in to investigate a suspected arson that destroyed three homes on Darr Avenue in Farrell, causing damage estimated at $60,000.
Dr. Thomas Shipka, president of the board of the Western Reserve Transit Authority, says a new policy has been adopted for bus drivers to deal with discipline issues involving city school district students on WRTA buses. The WRTA is being sued because a bus driver forced a 9-year-old boy off the bus several miles from his East Side home.
1966: Some 2,000 pilgrims attend an outdoor Mass marking the second annual pilgrimage of Maronites to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon on Lipkey Road in North Jackson.
The Youngstown Board of Education approves the purchase of 18 school buses at a cost of $64,780.
Youngstown is facing a teacher shortage with 27 vacancies still remaining on the staff of 1,200, all in secondary subjects. Trumbull County, which has 1,100 teachers, is seeking 40.
1941: Mayor William B. Spagnola and his wife leave on a two-week trip to tour the West and visit relatives in Arizona. Council president Arthur Gundry will serve as acting mayor.
James Tobin, formerly of Youngstown and now a pilot in the Canadian Royal Air Force, is visiting home on furlough.