YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 31

Today is Thursday, Aug. 31, the 243rd day of 2017. There are 122 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1867: French poet Charles Baudelaire, 46, dies in Paris.

1866: An earthquake devastates Charleston, S.C., killing at least 60 people,.

1954: Hurricane Carol hits the northeastern Atlantic states; Connecticut, Rhode Island and part of Massachusetts bears the brunt of the storm, which resulted in some 70 deaths.

1987: The Michael Jackson album “Bad” is released by Epic Records.

1992: White separatist Randy Weaver surrenders to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that had claimed the lives of Weaver’s wife, son and a deputy U.S. marshal.

1997: Prince Charles brings Princess Diana home for the last time, escorting the body of his former wife to a Britain that was shocked, grief-stricken and angered by her death in a Paris traffic accident earlier that day.

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1992: Changing population, declining attendance and the need to save money brings a reorganization of the Pittsburgh Diocese and the announced closing of 15 churches, including one in Lawrence County, St. Joseph Church in Ellport.

Canfield’s Rick Jones, a member of the Tippecanoe Country Club who won the NCAA championship in 1956 while at Ohio State University, is one of 13 members of the initial class of the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame.

Dr. William J. Timmons, outgoing chairman of the Trumbull County Democratic Party, is honored by Mahoning Valley politicians at a roast at the W.D. Packard Music Hall. The new chairman is Fred Alberini.

1977: The General Motors truck plant at Lords-town is awarded a General Services Administration contract for 239 trucks for the Air Force at a cost of $1.2 million.

There are about 160 abandoned mines in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, according to maps provided to Professor Ann Harris, a geologist at Youngstown State University.

A group of Liberty Township residents organize to oppose Trumbull County’s construction of a 120-foot water tower along Tibbetts-Wick Road near Warner Road.

1967: Capt. Fayette Grose, formerly of Youngstown and a Marine Corps chaplain, is host to The Vindicator’s Fred Childress during his tour of Vietnam, making contact with soldiers from the Mahoning and Shenango valleys.

Youngstown teachers threaten to stay off the job when school opens Sept. 6 if the board of education does not immediately adopt pay raises proposed Aug. 21.

Mahoning County Prosecutor Clyde Osborne is endorsed unanimously by the Mahoning County Central Executive Committee to succeed the late Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden Jr.

A dance sponsored by South Side Teens of the Total Action Center in St. Patrick’s School will honor Jackie Lewis, one of three contestants from Northeast Ohio in the Miss Teen-Age America contest.

1942: The Rev. Cyril Kramar, a Catholic missionary to Japanese-held Korea, arrives in Youngstown to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kramar, after five months of internment and a tedious 90-day voyage back to the United States.

City trucks will collect tin cans south of the Mahoning River and west of Market Street. Collections on the North Side netted more than 16 tons for the war effort.

Youngstown Mayor William Spagnola says the city will take over the disposal of garbage at the city incinerator if a threatened strike occurs.