YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 5

Today is Saturday, Aug. 5, the 217th day of 2017. There are 148 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1884: The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal is laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor.

1936: Jesse Owens of the United States wins the 200-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics, collecting the third of his four gold medals.

1957: The teenage dance show “American Bandstand,” hosted by Dick Clark, makes its network debut on ABC-TV.

1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, is found dead in her Los Angeles home. Her death is ruled a probable suicide from “acute barbiturate poisoning.”

1974: The White House releases transcripts of subpoenaed tape recordings showing that President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, had discussed a plan in June 1972 to use the CIA to thwart the FBI’s Watergate investigation. The revelation of the tape would spark Nixon’s resignation.

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1992: A tip that a small amount of money was being funneled from Phar-Mor to the World Basketball League by then-president Michael Monus led to an internal investigation that has uncovered accounting irregularities that could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.

A nearby resident says that objectionable smells that had been emanating from a Kraft General Foods plant near Kinsman has “improved 100 percent” over the past month.

Youngstown’s new school superintendent, Alfred Tutela, hires his first administrator, Dr. James Doughty, as executive assistant for planning, analysis and coordination, a new position.

1977: Mary Ann Baker, executive director of the Mahoning Women’s Center on Oak Hill in Youngstown, says about 15 or 20 percent of the clinic’s patients will be affected by a federal court’s ruling upholding a law that prohibits the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions.

A concrete mixer careens down Washington Street hill in Lowellville and slams into an apartment house at Jackson and Washington streets. June Hoffman, who had been asleep, is covered in debris, but escapes serious injury.

Trumbull Common Pleas Judge David F. McLain rules that daily prayer conducted by Carolyn Peterson, a first-grade teacher at Currie Elementary, is unconstitutional and admonishes officials of Fowler-Vienna School District for tolerating or encouraging in-class prayer.

1967: Richard G. LeFauve of Warren is appointed general supervisor of the methods laboratory at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors.

Ohio Finance Director Richard Krabach will speak at Youngstown University’s last commencement as a private institution in Stambaugh Auditorium. President Albert Pugsley says about 500 students are expected to graduate at the 45th YU summer commencement.

Three boys are injured, none seriously, when a cherry bomb explodes in their car at Bears Den and Schenley roads: Paul Marino, Nick Aiello and Tim McNally.

1942: Boardman Township residents flock to court of appeals chambers as the Ohio Public Utilities Commission opens a hearing on the new Boardman Transit Co.’s application to operate a bus service.

An emergency animal hospital is set up at Cleveland’s Public Hall to treat Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus animals injured in a tent fire that killed at least 50 caged and trained animals. Despite the fire, the show goes on for 11,000 people, minus some of the animal acts.

Striking employees of three unions at Hotel Pick-Ohio reject an offer of a 7.5 percent pay increase.