Years Ago

July 11, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2010. There are 173 days left in the year.

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1798: The U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also creates the U.S. Marine Band.

1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.

1952: The Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.

1960: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about childhood innocence and racial injustice in a small Southern town during the Great Depression, is first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.

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1985: A rock climber, Eric Vaughn, finds a live World War II era grenade off Jacob-Logtown Road near Lisbon. Army demolition experts from Dayton remove it for disposal.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. proposes legislation that would give federal tax credits for the purchase of U.S.–made new cars, which cost about $1,500 to $2,000 more than their Japanese competition.

1970:Not a single citizen appears for a public hearing on the proposed budget of $20.9 million for Youngstown city schools.

Advertisement: In person at the grand opening of the Circus Wagon across from the Southern Park Mall, TV’s Barney Bean. On the menu: foot-long hot dogs, roast beef sandwiches, cotton candy, candy apples and frozen custard.

1960: Two gunmen clean out about $22,000 from tellers’ drawers at the Cornersburg Branch of the Mahoning National Bank and escape after locking 10 employees and customers in the vault.

Dean Alexander, a local businessman, buys the Breyer Mansion in Sharpsville and 13 adjoining acres and plans to remodel the 1920 structure.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown says from Los Angeles that he’s confident that his pick, John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, will win the Democratic presidential nomination.

1935: The Ohio Water Service files suit to block the city of Youngstown from selling water to industrial users at a reduced rates. The company says the city is $1.1 million behind on paying assessments to the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District and should be current in those payments before selling water at a discount.

The award-winning Veterans of Foreign Wars Boys Band of Warren is offered a six-week tour of Europe and Germany after German Chancellor Adolf Hitler approves a $16,000 appropriation to pay the band’s traveling expenses.