YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 14

Today is Monday, Aug. 14, the 226th day of 2017. There are 139 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1848: The Oregon Territory was created.

1900: International forces, including U.S. Marines, enter Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreign influence.

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.

1945: President Harry S. Truman announces that Imperial Japan has surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

1947: Pakistan becomes independent of British rule.

1969: British troops go to Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

1973: U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends.

1997: An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh is formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2012: Vice President Joe Biden sparks a campaign commotion, telling an audience in southern Virginia that included hundreds of black voters that Republican Mitt Romney wanted to put them “back in chains” by deregulating Wall Street.

2016: At the Rio Olympics, U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte and three teammates report being robbed at gunpoint; police later said the men were not robbed, and instead vandalized a gas station bathroom.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Campbell launches a crackdown on tax delinquents. A father and son spend two days in jail and are fined $500 each for failing to respond to subpoenas related to their unpaid taxes.

Dr. Bruno Kazenas, former director of the Youngstown Symphony Chorale, is named music director and conductor of the Shenango Valley Chorale.

Lloyd S. Jones, 79, a longtime and award- winning photographer for the Youngstown Telegram and The Vindicator, dies at his Canfield home. He was a motion-picture photographer for the Army in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.

1977: The Valley Mould & Iron Co. of Hubbard will spend $5.3 million to convert to a no-bake process of producing better ingot molds.

Lynn B. Griffith Sr., 90-year-old former Ohio Supreme Court justice, continues to work six or seven hours each day at the law offices of Griffith, Kightlinger and Woodall in Warren.

The city of Youngstown, which is spending $385,000 a year to rent IBM equipment that can store up to 4 million characters of data, is exploring alternatives to increase its data processing system, including entering a partnership with Cleveland.

1967: On his first stop in Guam, The Vindicator’s Fred Childress meets three Youngstown sailors, Navy Chief Robert Washington, Boson Mate Frederick Wynn and FT-3 Ralph Dota.

A proposed ordinance prohibiting the wearing of clothing of the opposite sex is submitted to Youngstown City Council for action in September. The action is promoted by Sgt. William Leshnock, one of whose men was stabbed by a man wearing women’s apparel.

About $100 taken during the weekend from 200 parking meters on seven downtown Youngstown streets. Someone using a pass key has rifled 393 meters since May.

1942: Jerome “Sledgehammer Jerry” Pascarella is back on the prowl, smashing a marble board at the Benita Drug Store that he said had an automatic payoff, making it a gambling device. Pascarella leaves the store after scooping up about $5 in nickels.

Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Wren put the fourth service star in their window at 1346 Florencedale Ave., when their son, Fred, leaves for Parris Island, S.C., for Marine Corps training. Their other sons, John, Eugene and William, are in the Army.

S. Hreen and J. Doughton tie for low-score honors in the Truscon Golf League’s matches at the Doughton Golf Course. Both registered 35s.