Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 211th day of 2008. There are 155 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 211th day of 2008. There are 155 days left in the year. On this date in 1958, President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
In 1588, the English attack the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines, resulting in an English victory. In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. In 1900, Italian King Humbert I is assassinated by an anarchist; he is succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III. In 1914, transcontinental telephone service begins with the first test phone conversation between New York and San Francisco. In 1948, Britain’s King George VI opens the Olympic Games in London. In 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency is established. In 1957, Jack Paar makes his debut as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show.” In 1967, an accidental rocket launch aboard the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin results in a fire and explosions that kills 134 servicemen. In 1968, the Vatican issues an encyclical in which Pope Paul VI reaffirms the Catholic Church’s opposition to artificial means of contraception. In 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. (However, the couple divorcein 1996.)
July 29, 1983: A New Hampshire pilot crash-lands in Latimer Swamp, a marsh two miles east of state Route 193 in Johnson Township in Trumbull County. David DeVries, his wife and two young children are in satisfactory condition in Trumbull Memorial Hospital.
Senate President Harry Meshel says Ohioans should be allowed to vote on a proposal to repeal the recent 90 percent increase in the state income tax.
Youngstown’s Summer Youth 20 Litter Corps has picked up trash along 66 miles of city streets in about a month. The youths are paid with federal funds while the state pays for supervisors.
July 29, 1968: David Ross Jenkins, 21, a son of Common Pleas Judge Elwyn V. Jenkins and grandson of retired Judge David G. Jenkins, dies of injuries received June 7 when his car crashed into a pony that strayed onto U.S. Route 224 in Poland Township.
William F. Blascak of Youngstown is hired as an assistant principal at Girard High School. He was a 1949 graduate of Girard High School and taught at Princeton Junior High in Youngstown after graduating from Youngstown University.
The Mahoning County Board of Elections will hold voter registration for the presidential election at 12 or more locations in September.
July 29, 1958: A subcommittee of the Mahoning County Welfare Advisory Board tours the Mahoning County Home and finds residents live in squalid, unsafe conditions. The committee recommends building a new home.
A record amount of rainfall is registered in Youngstown in July, with 7.53 inches recorded at the Sheet & Tube reservoir. The previous record was 6.56 inches in 1928.
A concentrated six-week drive to stimulate employment in the Youngstown area is launched by Youngstown’s “Hire Now” committee, part of a statewide drive to create more jobs.
July 29, 1933: The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Co. and the Handy Service Stores in the Youngstown district pledge to cut hours and improve wages, a move that will create between 300 and 350 jobs.
The board of the Reuben McMillan Free Library passes a resolution to expand the library’s direct service into Campbell and Struthers. The library will begin drawing from the intangible tax collection for the entire county and will drop the $1 per year charge for residents outside the city.
The Ohio General Assembly passes an emergency act that will allow Ohio taxpayers a one-time opportunity to avoid penalties if they pay overdue taxes for the first half of the 1932.