Today is Thursday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2008. There are 174 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2008. There are 174 days left in the year. On this date in 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air.

In 1908, William Jennings Bryan is nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urges its ratification. In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War begin at Kaesong. In 1962, the Telstar communications satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1978, ABC-TV launches its reformatted evening newscast, “World News Tonight,” with anchors Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings and Max Robinson. In 1985, bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. says it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke.

July 10, 1983: Mahoning County officeholders submit record requests for $20 million in general fund appropriations, about $5 million more than anticipated revenue.

A campaign to repeal the half-percent income tax increase approved by voters in 1983 is being launched by the Fraternal Order of Police because, the union says, the proceeds have been diverted from the police and fire department budgets by the administration.

State Sen. Harry Meshel of Youngstown proposes that the former Youngstown Sheet & tube Co.’s Brier Hill by-products coke plant become part of a national steel museum and training center.

July 10, 1968: Fred L. Gronvall, who was born in Sweden and raised in Massachusetts, is named president and general manager of Strouss-Hirschberg Co. Clark Hammitt, a Rayen School graduate who joined Strouss-Hirshberg in 1951, is named vice president and general merchandise manager of the eight Strouss stores.

Clarence E. Barnes, executive director of the Urban League of Pontiac, Mich., is named the new director of Youngstown’s Urban League.

Ohio Highway Patrol Supt. Robert Chiaramonte says the patrol will begin testing motorcyclists for the licenses they must have by Jan. 1, 1969, under a new state law. Those who already have a driver’s license will have to take a road test on a motorcycle; new applicants will have to take both written and road tests.

July 10, 1958: Faith in Youngstown’s future as a growing metropolitan area played a large part in American Paper Products Co.’s decision to move from East Liverpool to Youngstown, J. Stanley Probst, executive vice president of the company, tells the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce.

The U.S. Senate approves $200,000 for planning for West Branch Reservoir and $100,000 for planning for the Shenango Reservoir.

Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko reduces a drunken driving charge against a Market Street man to reckless driving after a hearing in his private office. The city prosecutor says he wasn’t informed of the hearing or the reduction in the charge.

July 10, 1933: William Durschlag, 16-year-old Sharon youth, saves Miss Nellie Wolford, a nurse from Greenville, from drowning at Red Arrow Beach on the Shenango River. She had drifted into deep water and gone down for the second time when Durschlag swam to her and pulled her to shallow water.

Youngstown district steel mills are distributing their highest payrolls in more than two years.

The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District announces that the Meander water purification and pumping works will be open to public inspection between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily.