YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Aug. 20, the 233rd day of 2016. There are 133 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1833: Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, is born in North Bend, Ohio.

1866: Months after fighting in the Civil War had ended, President Andrew Johnson issues Proclamation 157, which declares that “peace, order, tranquility, and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America.”

1940: During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pays tribute to the Royal Air Force before the House of Commons, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

2006: Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who’d taken the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, dies in Novato, Calif., at age 94.

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1991: Mahoning Valley Racketeer Joseph N. Naples Jr., 58, is gunned down as he arrives to inspect a house he was having built at 3240 Lynn Road in Beaver Township.

Vindicator columnist Jane Tims writes that it has been 15 years since 1976 when Sister Jerome Corcoran agreed to a “temporary” break from teaching English at Youngstown State University to start a day-care center on Youngstown’s South Side. She says she “got hooked” and is still running the Mill Creek Child Development Center.

The 7th District Court of Appeals rejects a lawsuit by former state Rep. George D. Tablack Jr. and Campbell Councilman Robert Wilson seeking to dissolve the Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District.

1976: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will cut back iron and steel operations at its Campbell and Brier Hill Works, laying off 700 workers in one of the sharpest declines in production and employment in several years.

Bishop James W. Malone and Auxiliary Bishop William Hughes of the Youngstown Diocese join Catholic bishops from throughout Ohio in urging that Mansfield Reformatory be closed, describing it as inhumane and degrading. The reformatory houses first-time offenders, and about 70 percent are nonviolent offenders.

The Republican National Convention in Kansas City ends on a note of party unity, with challenger Ronald Reagan pledging his support to President Gerald Ford and his running mate, Robert Dole.

1966: A Federal Housing Administration’s analysis of the Youngstown-Warren housing market forecasts a demand for residential housing units.

Lester A. Kubiak, retired president of Photogenic Machine Co. and an avid photographer, dies at his Jeanette Drive residence.

“The American university has lost its sense of time and its sense of direction,” Dr. Perry E. Gresham, president of Bethany College, tells 397 graduates at Youngstown University’s summer commencement at Stambaugh Auditorium.

1941: Local drive-in and dine-in-your-car places are boosting prices. A 10-cent hamburger now costs 15 cents with lettuce, 12 cents without.

With only about two weeks before the opening of school in Trumbull County, there are still 20 vacancies to be filled. The county has lifted a ban on married women teaching in schools.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser says he has located the young woman some thought was the missing Ohio Wesleyan coed Ruth Baumgardner, and it is not the same woman. Miss Baumgardner’s mother came to Youngstown from Lakewood and met the girl, who only resembled her daughter.