YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 4

Today is Friday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2017. There are 149 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1830: Plans for the city of Chicago are laid out.

1892: Businessman Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, are axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew’s daughter from a previous marriage, is accused of the killings. (She would be acquitted at trial.)

1914: Britain declares war on Germany for invading Belgium; the United States proclaims its neutrality in the mushrooming world conflict.

1936: Jesse Owens of the U.S. wins the second of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he prevails in the long jump over German Luz Long, who is the first to congratulate him.

1944: 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank is arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.)

1964: The bodies of missing civil-rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.

1977: President Jimmy Carter signs a measure establishing the Department of Energy.

2007: President George W. Bush tours the site of a collapsed highway bridge in Minneapolis, pledging to cut red tape that could delay rebuilding.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Phar-Mor Inc.’s new president, David S. Shapira, says a fraud and embezzlement scheme totaling as much as $350 million by former Phar-Mor executives has been uncovered.

Wilhob Meats announces that it will buy 5.5 acres of industrial land in Girard for a $4.4 million slaughterhouse as an alternative to a similar project that faces opposition in Milton Township.

The owner of Mr. Anthony’s in Boardman and the executive chef of Colonial House II in Youngstown announce plans to convert the riverfront property of the former St. Vincent DePaul Society Building at Oak Hill and the Spring Commons Bridge into a restaurant that will be known as Anthony’s on the River.

1977: A Youngstown minister and a security guard are arrested by FBI agents and charged with the $36,000 robbery of the Uptown branch of Dollar Savings & Trust Co. in June 1971.

A flu bug surfaces on opening day of the National Boy Scout Jamboree at Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pa. Thirty Scouts are isolated at the medical facility to keep the disease from spreading.

U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney announces that Mahoning and Trumbull counties will receive $7.9 million in revenue sharing funds between October 1977 and September 1978.

1967: Fire destroys the Paradise Inn restaurant in Hickory Township. Damage is estimate at $75,000.

United Airlines wants a 10,000-square-foot expansion at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

The 36th annual Ukrainian Day will be held in Berkley picnic grounds, sponsored by the Ukrainian Congress Committee.

1942: Youngstown’s new police chief, Andre Przelomski, has 17 years on the force and declares, “There are no strings attached to me, and I’m determined to give Youngstown the most efficient police force possible.”

City Council will be asked to aid in the purchase of a $6,000 police ambulance by Patrolman Dan Maggianetti Jr., head of first-aid classes.

Atty. Knowles Wyatt is appointed to the board of governors of Youngstown College, representing the alumni.