YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 3

Today is Thursday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2017. There are 150 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that would take him to the present-day Americas.

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr goes on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Va., charged with treason. (He was acquitted a month later.)

1936: Jesse Owens of the United States wins the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he takes the 100-meter sprint.

1949: The National Basketball Association is formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.

1966: Comedian Lenny Bruce, whose raunchy brand of satire and dark humor landed him in trouble with the law, is found dead in his Los Angeles home; he was 40.

1981: U.S. air-traffic controllers go on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan they would be fired. They later were fired.

1987: The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ends with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Ronald Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels.

2012: The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly denounces Syria’s crackdown on dissent.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro wants a meeting with David S. Shapira, CEO of Phar-Mor Inc., to urge him to keep Phar-Mor headquarters in downtown Youngstown.

Nearly 12,000 signatures are collected in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties in support of placing a measure on the November ballot that would require labeling on any product that contained one or more of 458 chemicals identified under California law as cancer-causing.

Police are investigating the death of Carl Malandra as the city’s 29th homicide of 1992. He was found lying face down at Oak Hill Avenue and Breadan Street with a gunshot wound of the chest.

1977: Anthony “Tony the Dope” Delsanter, 66, of Warren, former partner in the infamous Jungle Inn gambling den in Trumbull County, dies of a heart attack during a trip to Florida.

Sheriff Michael Yarosh asks Mahoning County commissioners to prohibit jumping or diving from bridges, but to do so, commissioners will first have to establish a county bridge commission.

Some 28,500 Boy Scouts arrive at Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pa., for the ninth National Boy Scout Jamboree.

1967: The Columbiana Rose Society plans its annual show to be held in conjunction with the 81st annual Columbiana Street Fair.

Six boys age 15 to 17 appear in Mahoning County Juvenile Court accused of destroying a string of mailboxes with cherry bombs on Calla Road near Greenford.

Six physicians are invited by a Chamber of Commerce committee to open medical practices in Niles.

1942: Mahoning County commissioners delay action on the resignation of County Engineer Robert Schomer. He resigned to become a captain in the Army, and the board will study the possibility of granting him a leave of absence.

Dr. Tibor Eckhardt, former leader of the farm party in the Hungarian parliament, tells more than 1,000 people at the 16th annual Hungarian Day in Idora Park that the United States will be the only strong power in the world after the war and will be able to promote a just and lasting peace.

Three boys admit setting fire to a warehouse of the Albert Buehrle Co. feed store, causing an estimated $10,000 in damage.