Today is Saturday, July 19, the 201st day of 2008. There are 165 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, July 19, the 201st day of 2008. There are 165 days left in the year. On this date in 1848, a pioneer women’s rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

In 1553, 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey is deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary is proclaimed Queen. In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war begins. In 1943, allied air forces raid Rome during World War II. In 1944, the Democratic National Convention convenes in Chicago with the renomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a foregone certainty.

July 19, 1983: More witnesses who want Wally the Lion out of Warren testify during a hearing in the courtroom of Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker. The city is seeking to have Wally, a full-grown lion, declared a nuisance and removed from the Adelaide Avenue S.E. home of Ronald Testa.

A federal judge dismisses complaints ranging from grand theft, dereliction of duty and interfering with civil rights against 24 FBI agents.

A twin-engine Piper Aztec carrying five people from Cleveland to Baltimore makes a forced landing in a field in Coitsville and comes to a stop a few feet from a dense treeline.

July 19, 1968: “The old politics is not good enough. We must welcome change as a sign of progress,” New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller tells a crowd of 5,000 that welcomed him to Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Marine Pfc. Ronald Puskarcik, 18, of Fifth Avenue, Campbell, wounded in action in Vietnam June 28, dies of his injuries in a hospital in Guam. He is Mahoning County’s 57th death of the Vietnam War and Campbell’s third.

A Copperweld Steel Co. plant protection officer is badly beaten when he and another officer attempted to take photographs of congregating strikers. Copperweld has been closed for 11 days by a strike by melt shop workers.

July 19, 1958: Command of the U.S. Air Force’s jet fighter base at the Youngstown Municipal Airport is formally transferred from Col. Harley C. Vaughn to Col. Dale Sweat during a colorful change of command ceremony at the base flight line.

Testifying before the Senate Anti-Monopoly Subcommittee about Major League baseball, former Indians pitcher Bob Feller says signing bonuses of up to $100,000 being given to rookies are “ridiculous.” Feller notes that he got no signing bonus when he entered the game.

July 19, 1933: Youngstown building inspector Fred C. Medicus condemns 30 more structures in the downtown district as unsafe. One of the buildings Medicus condemned early at 358 E. Boardman St. sold for $40 by the land owner, City Bank, to a scrap dealer who will tear it down.

Sharon Steel Hoop Co. gives a 15 percent wage increase to its salaried employees, matching that given to wage earners on the plant floor.