YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 13

Today is Sunday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2017. There are 140 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1624: King Louis XIII of France appointed Cardinal Richelieu his first minister.

1792: French revolutionaries imprison the royal family.

1846: The American flag is raised for the first time in Los Angeles.

1910: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, dies in London at age 90.

1934: The satirical comic strip “Li’l Abner,” created by Al Capp, debuts.

1942: Walt Disney’s animated feature “Bambi” has its U.S. premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York, five days after its world premiere in London.

1961: East Germany seals off the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city for the next 28 years.

1967: The crime caper biopic “Bonnie and Clyde,” starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, has its U.S. premiere; the movie was considered shocking as well as innovative for its graphic portrayal of violence.

1981: In a ceremony at his California ranch, President Ronald Reagan signs a historic package of tax and budget reductions.

1989: Searchers in Ethiopia find the wreckage of a plane that had disappeared almost a week earlier while carrying Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, and 14 other people — there are no survivors.

1997: The animated comedy series “South Park” debuts on Comedy Central.

2007: President George W. Bush’s political strategist, Karl Rove, announces his resignation.

2012: A routine serving of an eviction notice to a man living near the Texas A&M University campus turns deadly when the resident opens fire, leading to the death of a law enforcement officer and another man before the gunman was killed.

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1992: The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously upholds the death sentence of Danny Lee Hill, the Warren man convicted for the brutal torture and murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife in 1985.

Packard Electric and the International Union of Electrical Workers, Local 717, are negotiating to return 1,000 jobs from Mexico to Warren.

Belmont Pines Hospital in Liberty Township is opening a new 10-bed child psychiatric unit for children age 3 to 12, which will be known as The Children’s Center.

1977: The Youngstown Diocese abandons plans to renovate and operate the former Sheraton Inn at N. Meridian Road and I-680 as a federally rent-subsidized home for the elderly.

Gary Allan Betz is spared by a three-judge panel that failed to agree sentencing him to death for the murder of tavern owner Ronald Goche. He is sentenced to life in prison, but could be eligible for parole in as little as 15 years.

The Youngstown Board of Control leases gas and oil rights at Youngstown Municipal Airport to B & K Energy of Youngstown for 300,000 cubic feet of gas yearly from each well and a royalty of 12 percent.

1967: Five Liberty High School students and a teacher, Margaret Kennedy, tour Orange, France. The students are Sharyn Burdman, Rachel Taylor, Constance Coloutes, Thomas Mould and Wayne Aubel.

Rescuers dig a 14-foot ditch to reach 15-year-old Leonard Boyce, who was trapped for 24 hours in a water well that collapsed near Lenore, W. Va.

Beaver County Community College expects an opening enrollment of 500.

Seven Youngstown men pass the nationwide uniform exam for certified public accountants: Ralph Ryhal, Anthony Giampetro, Anthony Infante Jr., Gilbert Lucarelli, George Konick, Edward Capelli and Ronald Burk.

1942: Sgt. Richard Greenlee, whose office has recruited more than 3,000 Youngstown area men for the Army, is promoted to lieutenant and will report for provost marshal’s school at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.

Whether company president, janitor or laborer, every employee of all Youngstown industrial concerns may soon undergo a searching investigation of their lives. This is the government’s effort to ferret out anyone who might sabotage vital industries.