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 msg[1] = "<strong>August 1, 1999: </strong> Cleveland and eastern suburbs endure power outages from severe thunderstorms that hit the area the day before. The hottest day of summer to date contributed to the storms that cut power to more than 70,000 people in the area and clocked wind gusts up to 69 mph at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.";

msg[2] = "<strong>August 2, 1939:</strong> Horror film director, Wes Craven is born in Cleveland. His film credits include <em>Nightmare on Elm Street</em> and <em>Scream</em>.";

msg[3] = "<strong>August 3, 1795:</strong> The Treaty of Greenville opens the eastern half of the Western Reserve for settlement and makes the Cuyahoga River the western boundary of the United States.";

msg[4] = "<strong>August 4, 1999:</strong> Cleveland welcomes over 10,00 young athletes for the AAU Junior Olympics. Events scheduled for the day include field hockey, girls basketball, gymnastics, soccer, and tennis.";

msg[5] = "<strong>August 5, 1914:</strong>The first traffic light is installed at Euclid Ave and E 105th St. in downtown Cleveland. The traffic light was invented by Garrett Morgan, an important inventor and businessman active in the affairs of Cleveland's black community. Find out more about <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/notableblacks/>notable African Americans of Cleveland</a> ";

msg[6] = "<strong>August 6, 1880:</strong> Bequeathed from a portion of Leonard Case Jr.'s estate, the Case School of Applied Science is incorporated.";

msg[7] = "<strong>August 7, 1956:</strong> Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., first visits Cleveland as the leader of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.";

msg[8] = "<strong>August 8, 1981:</strong> A record crowd of 72,086  at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium watch as Major League Baseball's American League hands the National League its 10th consecutive win at the 1981 All-Star Game.";

msg[9] = "<strong>August 9, 2001:</strong> State representative Mary Rose Oakar officially throws her hat into the ring as candidate for the Mayor of Cleveland. Other mayoral candidates include Jane Campbell and Tim McCormack.";

msg[10] = "<strong>August 10, 1999:</strong> The Cuyahoga County Fair continues its 103-year tradition with some new twists. There is bungee jumping, swing dancing, an all-day polka-thon and Jungle Bob's traveling zoo. Of course, there are still the mainstays: games, rides, the demolition derby, and pig racing. <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/countyfair/>See images of past Cuyahoga County fairs</a>";

msg[11] = "<strong>August 11, 1897:</strong> The Elizabeth Bryant Center opens as the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People. It was the first nonreligious institution sponsored by African Americans in Cleveland.";

msg[12] = "<strong>August 12, 1855:</strong> The <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/sacredlandmarks/sl01b.html>First Presbyterian Church (Old Stone Church)</a> is dedicated on Public Square.";

msg[13] = "<strong>August 13, 1978:</strong> 120,264 Clevelanders go to the polls to decide whether Cleveland mayor, Dennis Kucinich, the youngest mayor in Cleveland history, should be removed from office. With less than 50.1 percent in the mayor's favor, the recall fails.";

msg[14] = "<strong>August 14, 2003:</strong>Power lines go dead across northern Ohio, southern Ontario, and seven other states leaving 50 million people without electrical service, for some up to four days. Problems with two transmission lines, one originating in Cuyahoga County, set in motion a chain of events that lead to the historic blackout.";

msg[15] = "<strong>August 15, 1950:</strong> The Indians make their first triple play at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.";

msg[16] = "<strong>August 16, 1989:</strong> Improvements to Freenet, Cleveland's free public community computer system envisioned by CWRU's Dr. Thomas M. Grundner, now provide Internet service.";

msg[17] = "<strong>August 17, 1965:</strong> <em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em> editor, Robert Manry, reaches land in Falmouth England aboard his 13.5-foot sailboat, Tinkerbelle, and completes his 78-day voyage across the Altantic Ocean. <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/manry/index.html>Find out more about his arduous journey</a>.";

msg[18] = "<strong>August 18, 1873:</strong> The Lake Shore &amp; Tuscarawas Valley Railway formally opens. The 101-miles line links up Lorain, Ohio in the north with  Uhrichsville, OH in the south. Find out more about <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/rr/>Railroad History in Cleveland Memory</a>";

msg[19] = "<strong>August 19, 2001:</strong> Forget bikes and skateboards. Razor scooters are the preferred means of transportation for kids in the area this summer.";

msg[20] = "<strong>August 20, 1999:</strong> The city braces for a Ku Klux Klan rally that is to be held downtown the next day. The security measures to ensure the safety of the city, rallyers and protesters will cost the city $332,353 according to Mayor Michael R. White.";

msg[21] = "<strong>August 21, 1953:</strong>  Frank D. Celebrezze, former Cleveland municipal court judge, safety director, and assistant county prosecutor, dies at the age of 54. Having  successfully spear-headed a drive to break up racket operations in Cleveland, he later went on to replace Elliott Ness as safety director in 1942. Find out more about <a href=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/clevelandstatedr/Top?docID=10395171 target=_blank>Italian Americans in Cleveland history</a>.";

msg[22] = "<strong>August 22, 1901:</strong> Vernon Stouffer is born in Cleveland. After graduating from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1923, he returned home to help manage his father's thriving lunch business in Cleveland's Arcade. This lunch business would eventually grow into Stouffer's Corp., whose operations include a nationwide chain of restaurants, motor inns, frozen prepared foods, and food-service management.";

msg[23] = "<strong>August 23, 1957:</strong>  Northfield Park opens as a venue for harness-racing. The opening night card that Friday offered nine races with the first race a class D trot won by Bunter's Boy in 2:12, driven by Bill Popfinger.";

msg[24] = "<strong>August 24, 1919:</strong> Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning in his debut with the team. He recovers to get the final out of the game, and defeats the Philadelphia Athletics 2-1.";

msg[25] = "<strong>August 25, 1936:</strong> Celebrations for Olympic gold medal winner and former East Tech High track star, Jesse Owens begin in Cleveland as he is paraded from the East Cleveland train station, where he arrived, to Public Hall, where he is greeted by more than 4,000 fans. <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/afro,751>See the photo</a>.";

msg[26] = "<strong>August 26, 1954:</strong> The Indians raise their record to 90-35 as Early Wynn pitches a two-hitter for a 2-1 victory against the Washington Senators.";

msg[27] = "<strong>August 27, 1976:</strong>  An armed Vietnam war veteran surrenders to the police and frees nine hostages unharmed after holding them for nine hours in a suite of offices on the 36th floor of the Terminal Tower Building.";

msg[28] = "<strong>August 28, 1964:</strong> WEWS-TV Channel 5's rock and roll dance show, &#8220;The Big 5 Show&#8221; debuts with host <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/press,424>Don Webster</a>. Webster, previously working in Canada, was brought in as host by independent television producer, Herman Spero. The show went into national syndication as &#8220;The Upbeat Show&#8221; in 1966, with appearances by such acts as Sonny and Cher, the Supremes, and Steppenwolf.";

msg[29] = "<strong>August 29, 1982:</strong> Thermometers fall to 38&deg; F, the lowest temperature ever recorded for Cleveland in August at the time.";

msg[30] = "<strong>August 30, 1976:</strong> A federal appeals court stopped the Strongsville school board from banning works from school libraries and as textbooks. Four years earlier, the board had purged two books by Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller's <cite>Catch-22.</cite> The court held that &#8220;A library is a mighty resource in a free marketplace of ideas.&#8221;";

msg[31] = "<strong>August 31, 1976:</strong> Federal Judge Frank Batisti rules in <a href=/legallandmarks/reed/>Reed vs. Rhodes</a>, the Cleveland public school desegregation case, that the schools had practiced racial segregation.";

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msg[27] = "<strong>July 27, 1963:</strong>  African American inventor and businessman, Garrett Morgan, dies in Cleveland at the age of 86. Best known for his invention of the traffic light, as well as an early gas mask, Morgan was very active in Cleveland's black community and he is buried in Lake View Cemetery.";

msg[28] = "<strong>July 28, 1936:</strong> Tickets range from $3 to 25 cents for the Metropolitan Opera's open-air performance of &#8220;Aida&#8221; as Opera Week begins at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.";

msg[29] = "<strong>July 29, 1921:</strong> Cy Young and other ex-Indians as far back as 1870 beat a rival team of sand-lotters 11-6 in an exhibition game celebrating Cleveland's 125th anniversary.";

msg[30] = "<strong>July 30, 1970:</strong> <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/press,2402>George Szell</a>, internationally renowned conductor and music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, dies at the age of 73. As music director for the Cleveland Orchestra from 1946 until his death, Szell is credited for building the orchestra into one of the finest in the world.";

msg[31] = "<strong>July 31, 1932:</strong> The Cleveland Indians play their first game at Municipal Stadium, losing to the Philadelphia Athletics 0-1 as Mickey Cochrane's RBI single ended the pitcher's duel between Cleveland's  Mel Harder and Philly's Lefty Grove.";*/


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