YEARS AGO FOR AUG. 22

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2017. There are 131 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1485: England’s King Richard III is killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War of the Roses.

1787: Inventor John Fitch demonstrates his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1851: The schooner America outraces more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that comes to be known as the America’s Cup.

1910: Japan annexes Korea, which remains under Japanese control until the end of World War II.

1972: President Richard Nixon is nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.

2007: A Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers. Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days.

2012: Ousted Penn State president Graham Spanier and his lawyers attack a university-backed report on the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, calling it a “blundering and indefensible indictment.”

2016: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, appearing on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” pushes back against charges that she is physically unfit for the White House, saying the accusations were part of a “wacky strategy” by GOP rival Donald Trump.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says a provision recently added to a defense bill may block consolidation of military finance centers. Youngstown is one of 111 communities that have put together site proposals for new centers.

The city of Warren has gone a year without a traffic fatality, the longest period in nearly 20 years. Normally the city has five fatalities a year.

1977: Officials in Warren and Trumbull County react with cautious approval to a proposal to create a regional authority to oversee operation of the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Janie Pernotto, a graduate of Cardinal Mooney High School and Youngstown State University, is named senior program director of the new Eastwood YMCA in Niles.

About 750,000 United Auto Workers employed by the Big Three and some major auto-parts providers receive wage increases of 11 cents an hour based on an increase in the consumer price index.

Youngstown police are warning elderly people of a burglary scheme in which a man gets inside their homes by spinning a tale about his missing cat.

1967: St. Elizabeth Hospital raises its rates with the new charges now about the same as other hospitals in the city. Private rooms are $42 and $44; semiprivate, $33.50 to $35.0, and ward rooms, $33.50.

The Youngstown Education Association asks the Board of Education to start beginning teachers with a bachelor’s degree at $6,200.

The Youngstown Board of Education will ask city residents to approve a 5.1-mill operating levy for three years, yielding $662,000 annually.

1942: Sulphuric-acid fumes spread throughout the 1800 block of Wick Avenue after a bottle of acid falls from a truck and shatters. Several cars ran through the acid before firemen arrived to flush the street.

New concrete is poured where street-car rails have been removed from Federal Street so a blacktop job similar to that put on Central Square will produce a nearly perfect outline.

Electrical storms sweep the Mahoning Valley killing one person and injuring several others. A construction worker from Illinois was killed when struck by lightning under a tree.