YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 12

Today is Saturday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2017. There are 141 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1867: President Andrew Johnson sparks a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with whom he had clashed over Reconstruction policies. (Johnson was acquitted by the Senate.)

1898: Fighting in the Spanish-American War comes to an end.

1915: The novel “Of Human Bondage,” by William Somerset Maugham, is first published in the United States, a day before it was released in England.

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominates Hugo Black to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1944: During World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, is killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.

1981: IBM introduces its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.

1985: The world’s worst single-aircraft disaster occurs as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashes into a mountain, killing 520 people. (Four people survived.)

1992: After 14 months of negotiations, the United States, Mexico and Canada announce in Washington that they have concluded the North American Free Trade Agreement.

2007: A gunman opens fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri church, killing a pastor and two worshippers.

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1992: Youngstown State University receives $227,843 to conduct high-tech engineering research, YSU’s largest joint industry-university research project ever.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. will appear on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to discuss his “Buy American” campaign.

The new manager of the Ohio State Fair, Billy Inmon, announces that midway rides will be free for two hours each day. Inmon had cut the cost of admission from $6 to $5, but began charging for rides that had been free.

1977: The Mahoning County Welfare Department’s social-services office moves from 932 Belmont Ave. to the county’s South Side Annex on Market Street, the former Treasure Island store.

Mahoning County commissioners award $4.3 million in contracts for construction of a new Juvenile Justice Center.

A Youngstown psychiatrist, Dr. Nissim Benado, testifies that Gary Betz was a “sick man” when he shot and killed Newton Township tavern owner Ronald Goche in December.

1967: The Columbiana County Tuberculosis Clinic gets a new $18,500 X-ray machine that can take economical 4-by-4-inch pictures, as well as standard 14- by-17-inch films.

Youngstown records the lowest temperature in the state when the mercury plunges to 42 degrees at the Youngstown Municipal Airport. The previous low for the date was 49 degrees in 1946.

Betty Krauss of Howland Township collects tons of clothes, furnishings and toys for impoverished resident of Wolfe and Letcher counties in Kentucky. The latest collection was delivered on eight five-ton trucks supplied by the 635th Army Engineer Corps.

1942: Middlefield farmer James T. Begg noses out Youngstown Councilman James E. Minehart for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, the 19th Congressional District Democrat.

Hayward Dick leads the district Junior Championship qualifying with a sparkling 37-37-74 at the Henry Stambaugh Municipal Golf Course, breaking the former record of 76 held jointly by Junior Wilkoff and Harry Conners.

Youngstown Send-Off Day will take place at Idora Park. Entire proceeds of the event will go to provide send-off for every inductee or enlistee in the Youngstown, Boardman and Poland areas.