Today is Monday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2008. There are 163 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Monday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2008. There are 163 days left in the year. On this date in 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction is later overturned on a technicality.)
In 1930, President Hoover signs an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration. In 1954, the Geneva Conference concludes with accords dividing Vietnam into northern and southern entities. In 1961, Capt. Virgil “Gus” Grissom becomes the second American to rocket into a suborbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the Liberty Bell 7. In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blast off from the moon aboard the lunar module.
July 21, 1983: A majority of taxpayers in Wilmington Township, Mercer County, voted during a town hall meeting to secede from the Wilmington Area School District and withhold their taxes until they can be located in a new district. The residents are looking at affiliating with the Mercer or West Middlesex district.
Robert Spencer spent $14,213 in his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for Youngstown mayor. Patrick Ungaro, who won the nomination by 97 votes, spent $4,611.
July 21, 1968: Ronald Bennehoff, cochairman of the Mahoning County Wallace committee, says about 2,000 signatures to put Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the Ohio presidential ballot were collected in Youngstown. Bennehoff says many young people signed the petitions.
Dick Nunamaker, who will be a senior at Liberty High School, has built his own car, a fiberglass “dune buggy” on the chassis of a 1953 Volkswagen he bought for $250.
July 21, 1958: A swimming party at the Brunswick Road home of Dr. and Mrs. H. John Little ends in death as a neighbor, a retired steelworker who resented the installation of the pool and a stockade fence, opens fire. Dead are Dr. Little’s wife, Pauline, 34, and a guest at the party, Roland E. Page, 30. Two other guests at the party, Charles E. and Melda Brown, are wounded. The 67-year-old neighbor is in City Jail.
The Youngstown Building Inspector revokes a permit for the Board of Education to build restrooms at the Rayen Stadium after finding that the building would have come virtually to the sidewalk line on Ohio Avenue between Benita and Dennick avenues.
July 21, 1933: Youngstown Sheet Tube Co., largest single taxpayer in Campbell, engages R.L. Lippincott, a Youngstown auditor, to undertake a survey of the entire Campbell city finances preparatory to recommending probable drastic action to restore Campbell’s financial standing.