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Today is Monday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2016. There are 131 days left in the year.

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1485: England’s King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.

1787: Inventor John Fitch demonstrates his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1846: Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaims all of New Mexico a territory of the United States.

1910: Japan annexes Korea, which would remain under Japanese control until the end of World War II.

1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon are nominated for second terms in office by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

1996: President Bill Clinton signs welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.

2006: A Russian Pulkovo Airlines jet carrying 170 people crashes in eastern Ukraine, killing all aboard.

2011: Lyricist Jerry Leiber, who with composer Mike Stoller wrote “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Yakety Yak” and other hits, dies in Los Angeles at age 78.

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1991: Rocky and Randy Carr of North Lima win the prize for largest and best squash or pumpkin at the Ohio State Fair with their 210-pound specimen.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro tells an Austintown audience that the only way the city’s 40 percent surcharge for water sold to residents outside the city would be waived is if the city and suburbs joined a single metropolitan government.

Browning Ferris Industries will seek bids on a $5 million recycling center at its Carbon Limestone facility in Poland Township.

1976: The former Buhl Mansion, a landmark in Sharon since its construction in the late 19th century, is sold by the Henry P. Forker estate to two Youngstown men, architect Andrew Burin and developer David Braun, for $90,000.

A group of local investors applies to the Ohio Department of Commerce to establish a new bank, Warren Family Bank, which would be headquartered in the Youngstown Road offices of Valley Consolidated Industries. Joseph J. Comparato, chairman of Valley, would be a director of the bank.

Democrat Jimmy Carter will kick off his presidential campaign in his home state of Georgia, but says Ohio will be one of seven battleground states in his race with President Gerald Ford.

1966: Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Rockhill, both Peace Corps workers, are in the Mus Province of Turkey, one of the hardest-hit areas by an earthquake. Mrs. Rockhill is a Canfield native, the former Lois Mikkelsen.

The five living charter members of Slovak Catholic Sokols Assembly 159 are honored at the assembly’s golden jubilee banquet. They are Paul Bartos, Michael Borosko, Michael Jaros, Joseph Seman and Stephen Bartos.

At the Kenley Players: Louis Nye starring in “Charley’s Aunt.”

1941: Youngstown District workers employed in defense plants are spending a lot of their increased incomes for “hard goods” such as large appliances.

While steel production in Youngstown remains at 98 percent, some finishing mills are idle because of heavy shipments of ingots to England.

A decision on North Lima’s request for free telephone service to Youngstown is delayed by the Ohio Bell Telephone Co., which says that government priorities have made it impossible to get cable.