YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 1

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2017. There are 152 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1714: Britain’s Queen Anne dies at age 49; she is succeeded by George I.

1876: Colorado is admitted as the 38th state.

1907: The U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.

1936: Adolf Hitler presides over the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Berlin.

1944: An uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasts two months before collapsing.

1957: The United States and Canada announce they have agreed to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, goes on an armed rampage at the University of Texas in Austin that kills 14 people, most of whom were shot by Whitman while he was perched in the clock tower of the main campus building.

1981:Rock-music video channel MTV debuts.

1994: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm they secretly married 11 weeks earlier.

2007: The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, collapses into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour, killing 13 people.

2016: The United States launches multiple airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: The World Basketball League suspends operations, ending a five-season run that drew some 2.5 million fans to games. The Youngstown Pride was one of the five remaining teams, along with Halifax, Hamilton, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg. The Pride won its last game, 127-114, against Hamilton at Beeghly Center.

Four area students are among 73 at Ohio State University elected to the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society: Tanya Wilson of Mineral Ridge; Bruce Khula and Melissa Dangaran, both of Warren; and Dan M. Wiley of Alliance.

Greenville Regional Hospital and Shenango Valley Medical Center will begin buying their blood products from the Central Blood Bank of Pittsburgh. Sharon General Hospital will remain a client of the American Red Cross.

1977: Brookfield Township Police Chief Ernest Cook says the department expects to hire black and female officers before the year is out to meet federal minority-hiring standards.

Don Hanni III, director of Local 11 of the Ohio Public Employees Union, says his members are poised to strike the Youngstown Park and Recreation Department unless contract negotiations are reopened.

Fire causes an estimated $1 million in damages to the Timberlanes Steak House and its adjoining bowling alley in downtown Salem.

1967: Doors will be closed to more than 2,000 Youngstown kindergarten students this fall due to a lack of funding.

Three area Navy men on the carrier Forrestal are reported uninjured after a fire in the Philippines. They Are William Kerr, John Noser and William Bretz.

Three sisters of Atty. Frank Kryzan are alive and well in Caracas, Venezuela, after an earthquake: Marie Kryzan, Mrs. John Wajert and Mrs. Tulio Briceno-Maaz, whom they were visiting.

1942: Youngstown Finance Director Walter Mitchell says he cannot approve any more bills submitted by police physicians for care provided to city jail inmates because the $2,400 annual appropriation of medical fees is exhausted.

Scrap barrels being placed throughout downtown Youngstown contain a caricature of Adolf Hitler and the slogan, “Hit Hitler with Scrap.”

The Mahoning County rationing organization is replaced with a new organization that has additional boards, paid executive secretaries and clerks.