Today is Sunday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2017. There are 147 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2017. There are 147 days left in the year.

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1813: During the Venezuelan War of Independence, forces led by Simon Bolivar recapture Caracas.

1914: Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia and Serbia declares war against Germany.

1917: Film actor, director Robert Mitchum is born in Bridgeport, Conn.

1926: Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 141/2 hours.

Warner Bros. premieres its Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system in New York with a showing of “Don Juan” featuring sound effects.

1930: New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater goes missing after leaving a Manhattan restaurant; his disappearance remains a mystery.

1942: Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of Congress, telling lawmakers that despite Nazi occupation, her people’s motto remains, “No surrender.”

1945: During World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. (Three days later, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki; five days after that, Imperial Japan surrendered.)

1956: The DuMont television network goes off the air after a decade of operations.

1961: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second man to orbit Earth as he flew aboard Vostok 2; his call sign, “Eagle,” prompted his famous declaration: “I am Eagle!”

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act.

1978: Pope Paul VI dies at Castel Gandolfo at age 80.

1986: William J. Schroeder dies at Humana Hospital-Audubon in Louisville, Ky., after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.

2007: The Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah collapses, trapping six coal miners. (All six miners died, along with three would-be rescuers.)

2012: Marvin Hamlisch, 68, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies including “The Sting” and the Broadway smash “A Chorus Line,” dies in Los Angeles.

2016: The White House releases a version of President Barack Obama’s 3-year-old guidance on the use of lethal force against terrorists overseas, laying out what it says are safeguards to minimize civilian deaths and errant strikes.

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1992: Harris J. Amhowitz, general counsel of Coopers & Lybrand, says the board of Phar-Mor Inc., cannot escape responsibility for alleged fraud and embezzlement by top officers of the Youngs-town discount chain.

Mickey Muzevich opens an auto pawn shop at 470 W. Main St., Canfield, just the third such business in Ohio.

A one-time candidate for the Hubbard Board of Education, Ray Watkins, alleges that his wife lost her part-time job as the school district’s ticket manager because he campaigned against an 11-mill school district levy.

1977: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is cutting about 150 salaried jobs at its Boardman headquarters as part of an overall move to reduce costs and return the company to profitability.

Terry Lee Fay, 20, is seriously injured when his car strikes a guardrail that had been placed in the 2200 block of Liberty Road by vandals.

James A. Traficant Jr., executive director of Mahoning County Drug Programs Inc., will be the speaker at a testimonial dinner for state Sen. Harry Meshel at the Mahoning Country Club.

1967: The Vindicator’s “Operation GI” gets underway when Fred Childress boards a plane at the Youngstown Municipal Airport on the first leg of his flight to Vietnam.

The Rev. and Mrs. George Van Wingerden return to Girard after a five-week tour of Mexico and Central America.

Expanded activities have followed establishment of South Side Center of Associated Neighborhood Centers. The former St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church at Oak Hill and Chalmers avenues has been named the Clarence Robinson Center.

1942: Lloyd Lyon, Youngs-town and Suburban Railway president, says passenger business has declined to 25 percent of total business in recent years.

Joseph G. Butler III, director of the Butler Art Gallery, is commissioned a captain in the Army Air Corps and will report to Miami, Fla., for preliminary training.

McKelvey’s fur sale has “Iceland” sable-blend Coney full-length coats for $45, seal-dyed Coney and skunk-dyed opossum for $65, and sable-blend wildcat for $85.

The M.L. Club will devote the coming year to the study of South America.