YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 30

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2017. There are 123 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1862: Confederate forces win against the Union at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va., and the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky.

1967: The Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1983: Guion S. Bluford Jr. becomes the first black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasts off aboard the Challenger.

1989: A federal jury in New York finds “hotel queen” Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion, but acquits her of extortion.

1997: Americans receive word of the car crash in Paris that killed Princess Diana, her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul.

2012: Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House with a rousing, personal speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., proclaiming that America needs “jobs, lots of jobs.”

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1992: A strike at the General Motors fabricating plant in Lordstown is the United Auto Workers’ way of saying it will no longer tolerate the mass transfer of hourly jobs to nonunion plants such as those in Mexico, an industry analyst says.

Youngstown State University has two leaders named Cochran: the new university president, Leslie Cochran, and starting quarterback Nick Cochran.

Film star Tony Curtis attends a black-tie reception at the open of the exhibit “Tony Curtis: Recent Painting” at the Butler Institute of American Art.

1977: U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney announces a $750,000 Economic Development Administration grant for the construction of a hangar at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

An investigator of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Office of Revenue Sharing will be in Warren to investigate a complaint that the city discriminates against blacks and women in hiring for the police and fire departments.

A West Farmington couple, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cleer, files a $6-million lawsuit against a Columbus energy company for alleged destruction and deception in the drilling of natural-gas wells on their Girdle Road property.

1967: A teenage bandit clicks a misfiring pistol three times at Edward Forsythe, manager of the Valley Park Motel at 525 Wick Ave., before the weapon fires a bullet into the ceiling. After the pistol fired, the youth and an accomplice flee.

Youngstown public schools will open for an estimated 27,000 pupils, about 2,000 fewer than a year earlier. Kindergarten has been eliminated.

Idora Park presents a free jazz concert and art show, including works of 30 artists represented by Dr. Richard Murray’s Gallerie des Champignons.

1942: Youngstown district listeners who were tuned to the Blue Network’s mammoth “Bond Night on the Blue” radio program flooded WFMJ with orders for nearly $110,000 worth of war savings bonds.

City Engineer Ralph W. O’Neill hopes that at least two of the Civil War cannons on Central Square can be saved from the scrap heap by citizens collecting an equivalent amount of scrap.

Mrs. Katherine Tyson of Youngstown receives a letter from her sister and brother-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Clinton Laird, that they arrived safely on the Gripsholm. He was dean of Ling Nan University in Hong Kong.