This day in history

Today is Friday, July 10, the 191st day of 2009. There are 174 days left in the year. On this date in 1509, French theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, is born Jean Cauvin in Noyon, Picardy, France.

In 1890, Wyoming becomes the 44th state. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urges its ratification. (However, the Senate rejects it.) In 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces begin attacking southern England by air. (The Royal Air Force is ultimately victorious.) In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War begin at Kaesong.

July 10, 1984: Teamsters Local 377 asks the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to find the city in contempt for not paying $40,000 in back wages due to 40 street department workers who were put on reduced hours for eight weeks in 1980.

The Youngstown Board of Education approves a policy requiring that all students must maintain at least a D in all subjects to be eligible to participate in athletics or other extracurricular activities. State standards allow students to fail some subjects if higher grades in other subjects allow them to have a D average.

A tile mural depicting the history of steel making is being installed at the new Summitville Tile store at 631 Boardman Canfield Road.

July 10, 1969: Youngstown is a feasible site for Ohio’s fifth medical school, according to a study commissioned by the Mahoning County Medical Society.

U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan receives a standing ovation when he enters the Longworth Building cafeteria for the first time in three months. Kirwan will be spending days on Capitol Hill and return to Bethesda Naval Hospital at night where he is being treated for a broken vertebra.

More than 200 community leaders and “friends of the Canfield Fair” attend the annual kick-off dinner, marking the official launch of activities that will lead to Aug. 29’s opening day.

July 10, 1959: The U.S. Senate approves the public works appropriation bill that includes $500,000 each for the West Branch and Shenango River reservoir projects.

The Mahoning County Board of Child Welfare is considering taking over administration of the education of retarded children in the county.

William J. List of Struthers is named acting postmaster of Struthers, replacing Hugh McPhee, who resigned.

July 10, 1934: Approval of the Lake Erie-Ohio River canal via the Beaver and Mahoning rivers through Mosquito Creek to a point near Conneaut is expected to receive approval by the U.S. Army Board of Engineers on Rivers and Harbors.

Bundle-laden shoppers throng downtown Youngstown stores on the first day of the city’s third “Opportunity Days” sale.

Col. Horatio B. Hackett, new director of the federal housing division of the WPA, assures P.L. Strait, executive secretary of the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority, that Youngstown’s proposed $4 million slum clearance project will get ample consideration.