Years Ago

Today is Friday, July 9, the 190th day of 2010. There are 175 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1540: England’s King Henry VIII has his six-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.

1776: The Declaration of Independence is read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.

1810: French Emperor Napoleon I annexes the Kingdom of Holland.

1816: Argentina declares independence from Spain.

1850: The 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, dies after serving only 16 months of his term. (He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.)

1896: William Jennings Bryan delivers his famous “cross of gold” speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago.

1918: One hundred and one people are killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tenn.

The Distinguished Service Cross is established by an Act of Congress.

1947: The engagement of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten is announced.

1951: President Harry S. Truman asks Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany. (An official end to the state of war is declared in October 1951.)

1974: Former U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren dies in Washington, D.C., at age 83.

1982: A Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, La., killing all 145 people aboard and eight people on the ground.

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1985: The renovation of the never-used Commuter Aircraft Corp. plant for use by the Packard Electric Division of General Motors moves a step closer to reality with the State Controlling Board’s approval of a $4 million loan to Davis International of Youngstown.

Cleveland City Councilman Dennis Kucinich announces plans to run for Ohio governor in November.

Mary Kay Shuba, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Shuba of Youngstown, receives a doctorate in dental surgery from Ohio State University.

Playing at the Warren Star Theater in the W.D. Packard Music Hall, the Donny and Marie Osmond Show, with guest stars Pinkard & Bowden.

1970: Trumbull County commissioners put all county employees paid by the general fund on half-time and withdraw from the Mahoning-Trumbull Council of Governments in an effort to address the county’s cash crisis.

The Mahoning County–Youngstown Executive Committee on Civil Defense splits down the middle on dismissal of C.D Director Bud J. Fares. It may be up to Gov. James Rhodes to break the tie.

1960: A 16-year-old Lake Milton youth driving on a probationary license strikes and kills two Youngstown school teachers as the sisters were preparing to board a bus in route 18 two miles west of North Jackson. Dead are Miss Helen Duer, 68, an English teacher at Niles McKinley High, and Miss Margaret Duer, 65, a science teacher at Princeton Junior High.

Eight clients who contracted with Otto Standke, the self-styled “birdman” from Kansas, are refusing to pay any more than their $100 down payment, saying he failed to rid their downtown Youngstown buildings of troublesome starlings.

At the Kenley Players in Packard Music Hall in Warren, Jill Corey and Robert Goulet starring in the musical “Meet Me in St. Louis.”

1935: The mother of Alexander Strak, 15, who was killed by a hit skip motorist, files suit seeking $25,000 from the estate of Dr. Frank Greer, prominent Youngstown dentist, who committed suicide the morning after the accident on Belmont Ave. Passengers in Dr. Greer’s car have testified that the auto hit “something” the night of the accident, but Dr. Greer said it was a mailbox.

The Rev. W.J. Kratz, pastor of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church for 25 years, is in South Side Hospital after amputation of his left leg above the knee.