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July 1, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2010. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.

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On this date in:

1860: Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber, dies in New York at age 59.

1867: Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act takes effect.

1943: “Pay-as-you-go” income tax withholding begins.

1968: The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and nearly 60 other nations sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

1980: President Jimmy Carter signs the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which considerably deregulated the U.S. trucking industry.

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1985: Gary Lee, a former Youngstown man who was one of the American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Iran, has some advice for the Americans released by their captors in Beirut: They should try to forget the experience and get on with their lives.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, favors “pre-emptive strikes” against known terrorist bases in the Middle East, including those in Libya and Lebanon.

1970: Behaviorally disturbed children and some incapable teachers are the chief topics of more than 125 educators in an exchange of ideas at the downtown YMCA.

Atty. John Weed Powers is elected president of the Youngstown Symphony Society during a meeting at the Youngstown Symphony.

The Youngstown Rotary Club is considering a plan to create the Rotary Urban Action Committee that would coordinate all segments of the community.

1960: Trumbull County deputies raid an illegal fireworks operation at the Hubbard Tire Co. on Youngstown-Hubbard Road. Area residents had complained that fireworks were big enough to blow off a child’s arm.

Patrolman Andrew Kovac and his partner Sam Vitt had hit so many East End cheat spots that The Vindicator reported in April that there was political pressure to take him off the beat. Kovac has been reassigned to the detective bureau.

Don Bernard, veteran union official, is elected president of the 3,000-member Local 1462, USW, defeating rebel Frank Leseganich, to represent employes at the Brier Hill Works of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.

1935: A speedboat piloted by Warren businessman and former councilman James Lang careens out of control into the crowded bathing area at Craig’s Beach on Lake Milton, injuring five teenagers, three boys and two girls. Lang is under a physician’s care after angry bathers on shore threw stones at him.

Two Youngstown men are killed when the stolen car they were in strikes a telephone pole on Route 45 near East Liverpool.