Years Ago

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

Today is Monday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2010. There are 172 days left in the year.

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1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill passed by Congress authorizing the Medal of Honor.

1812: U.S. forces led by Gen. William Hull enter Canada during the War of 1812 against Britain. (Hull retreats shortly thereafter to Detroit.)

1909: The House of Representatives joins the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax. (It is ratified in Feb. 1913.)

1960: The Etch A Sketch Magic Screen drawing toy, invented by French electrician Andre Cassagnes, is first produced by the Ohio Art Co.

1984: Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announces he has chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate (The first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket).

1993: Some 200 people are killed when an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes northern Japan and triggered a tsunami.

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1985: Warren City Council passes an ordinance making owners of vicious dogs responsible for the action of the dogs.

Diane Parana, 18, is crowned queen of the Cortland Street Fair.

1970: Lt. Col. Dale A. Bittinger, a Lowellville native, is awarded the Legion of Merit, the nation’s second highest decoration for meritorious service, in ceremonies in Vietnam.

A dynamite bomb does minor damage to the home of Peter Chakos, operator of Pete’s Jukebox Service, at 706 E. Philadelphia Ave. Chakos wouldn’t talk to police.

1960: Two Rochester, N.Y., consultants will present a rough draft of a master plan for the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan has a room on the 7th floor of the Biltmore Hotel, Democratic headquarters for the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, overlooking Pershing Park, where he slept for five nights 50 years earlier while looking for work.

Playing at the Paramount, “High Society” starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt allots $3 million for relief work in Youngstown that will be used to clear out slums along W. Federal Street between Griffith Street and James Court and north to Lexington.

Melvin Purvis, head of the Chicago office of the Department of Justice, who directed the search the resulted in the death of “Pretty Boy” Floyd near East Liverpool, is retiring.