Years Ago

Today is Saturday, July 10, the 191st day of 2010. There are 174 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1509: Theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, is born in Noyon, Picardy, France.

1890: Wyoming becomes the 44th state.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urges its ratification. (However, the Senate rejects it.)

1929: American paper currency is reduced in size as the government begins issuing bills that are approximately 25 percent smaller.

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.)

1951: Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War begin at Kaesong.

1973: The Bahamas becomes fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.

1985: The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist is killed.

Bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. says it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke.

1991: Boris N. Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

1999: The United States women’s soccer team wins the World Cup, beating China 5-4 on penalty kicks after 120 minutes of scoreless play at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

2000: Texas Gov. George W. Bush, facing a skeptical audience, tells the NAACP convention in Baltimore that “the party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln,” and promises to work to improve relations.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: A partnership hoping to renovate and reopen the Voyager motel in downtown Youngstown is awaiting word from a consortium of local banks on whether it will finance part of the project.

David Stockman, the Reagan administration’s economic wunderkind, is making a long-expected exit from government for a six-figure job as one of the financial wizards of Wall Street.

Youngstown officials appeal to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to approve a $9.3 million grant needed to proceed on the $31 million Ronneburg Brewery.

1970: The Youngstown Board of Education buys the former “Automatic” Sprinkler plant at Brittain and Jones Streets for $565,000 as the site of a vocational school.

The Buckeye Elks Lodge 73 opens a campaign to raise $250,000 for a new youth development center on North Avenue.

Advertisement: Friday Fish Fry at the Cocoanut Grove, $1 for a large portion of fresh haddock, french fries, coleslaw, bread and butter.

1960: The Youngstown Foundation passes the million dollar mark in grants aimed at helping the community in a variety of ways during its 432-year history. The foundation, begun in 1918 with a $50,000 gift from Henry Stambaugh, has assets of more than $1.5 million.

A 7-year-old boy, Roger T. Woodward, survives a plunge over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls after the boat in which he was riding capsized. He is believed to be the first person to survive an accidental plunge over the falls.

Advertisement: State Chevrolet in Youngstown is the first area dealer to have the convertible model of the Corvair. Other Corvair models starting at $1,789.

1935: Thirty-three Struthers Boy Scouts will receive awards at an honor campfire at Yellow Creek.

Downtown Youngstown is jammed with shoppers on the first day of the Opportunity Days sale. The Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. put 14 extra buses and five streetcars into service for the morning rush and will add more if needed during the afternoon.

Excavation work begins for the new $30,000 Florence Crittenton Home on McGuffey Road. It will have room for 25 unmarried mothers.

Responding to a report that a mother was escorted from the U.S. House in June for nursing a child, Rep. Blanton, a Texas Democrat, says the House doorkeeper has assured him that the nation’s mothers are welcome to nurse their progeny in the House gallery.