YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 9

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2017. There are 144 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1902: Edward VII is crowned king of Britain after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States takes first place in the 400-meter relay.

1945: Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar drops a nuclear device (‘‘Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.

1969: Actress Sharon Tate and four other people are found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers are later convicted of the crime.

1974: Vice President Gerald R. Ford becomes the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Richard Nixon’s resignation takes effect.

1982: A federal judge in Washington orders John W. Hinckley Jr., who’d been acquitted of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of insanity, committed to a mental hospital.

2014: Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-year-old black man, is shot to death by a police officer after an altercation in Ferguson, Mo.

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1992: David S. Shapira, president and CEO of Phar-Mor Inc., says he is working to return the company to stability and profitability and commits to keeping the company headquarters in downtown Youngstown during the process.

Youngstown-area soldiers George Kastner and Earl Nagel recall the Battle for Guadalcanal 50 years ago.

A tornado touches down in Pulaski, Pa., destroying six mobile homes in the Heritage Hills trailer park.

1977: The Columbiana County Port Authority hears four proposals from statewide planners to develop a port on the Ohio River somewhere in the county.

Austintown Township trustees and Board of Education members agree to divide $814,000 in public-works money, which will be used to expand physical-education facilities at the schools, build a new police station and lay sidewalks.

Youngstown firemen rescue Richard Aaron, 28, from his blazing third-floor apartment at 1503 Elm St. He is in guarded condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with burns and smoke inhalation.

1967: The Dog House Inc., a national chain with more than 200 hot-dog shops in 33 states and headquartered in Youngstown, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Marine Lance Cpl. John L. Moreland, 20, of 1044 Bundy Road, Youngstown, dies of wounds suffered during an operation against hostile forces in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam.

The Ohio Water Pollution Control Board orders Benada Aluminum Products Co. to cease discharging untreated industrial wastes into the Mahoning River. Benada’s lawyer suggests the company may move to Georgia rather than build expensive treatment facilities.

1942: Lt. Byron Fillmore Johnson, formerly of Youngstown, who was awarded the Navy Distinguished Flying Cross for attacking bandits in Nicaragua, is promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel in the Marine Corps.

About 2,000 Boy Scouts will visit every home in Mahoning County with a pledge card asking people to donate tin cans for the war effort.

City Engineer Ralph O’Neill, county salvage chairman, says Youngstown and Mahoning County will do their share toward meeting their 7.2 million pound scrap salvage goal set by the War Production Board for the next six months.