Years Ago

July 15, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, July 15, the 196th day of 2010. There are 169 days left in the year.

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1870: Georgia becomes the last Confederate state readmitted to the Union.

1910: The term “Alzheimer’s disease” is used to describe a progressive form of presenile dementia in the book “Clinical Psychiatry” by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who credited the work of his colleague, Alois Alzheimer, in identifying the condition.

1948: President Harry S. Truman is nominated for another term of office by the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.

1964: Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona is nominated for president by the Republican national convention in San Francisco.

1971: President Richard Nixon startles the country by announcing he would visit the People’s Republic of China.

1976: A 36-hour kidnap ordeal begins for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they are abducted near Chowchilla, Calif., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. (The captives escape unharmed.)

1979: President Jimmy Carter delivers his “malaise” speech in which he laments what he calls a “crisis of confidence” in America.

1985: A shockingly gaunt-looking Rock Hudson appears at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it is later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).

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1985: Neighbors want the abandoned 100-year-old Kerr mansion on White Oak Drive in Hubbard Township razed. The home had been unseen behind a stand of trees, but the May 31 tornado downed the trees and damaged the house, making it a focal point in a neighborhood of $100,000 homes.

Diane DeLoreto fires a 45 to take top honors in Class A and feature play in the rain-shortened Women’s Youngstown District Golf Association’s low gross event at Mohawk Trails Golf Course.

Officials of the Emergency Broadcasting System are conducting a survey of area radio and television stations to determine their effectiveness in warning residents of the May 31 tornadoes.

1970: Mrs. Robert H. Clark Jr. of Canfield celebrates her birthday at North Side Hospital by giving birth to twins, a boy and a girl.

A New Castle man is cited for driving through a funeral procession after he pulls in front of a car at Albert and Oak streets, causing a minor chain-reaction accident in the procession.

1960: Fires set to clear out three abandoned slum buildings in Brier Hill roar our of control and burn out electricity wires, cutting power to hundreds of North Side homes while residents were watching the Democratic national convention on television.

Sharon Steel Corp. restarts steelmaking at its idled Roemer Works in Farrell, boosting the Youngstown district steel operating rate by 5 percent to 44 percent.

Youngstown officials reluctantly turn down an opportunity to build a new $300,000 control tower at the Youngstown Municipal Airport because matching local funds are not available.

1935: Two bathers drown over the weekend: Anne Maude Lance Baker, 37, in Kirwan Pool; and John Kurtz, 21, in Lake Milton.

Two Negroes, Bert Moore and Dooley Morton, are lynched by a mob behind a church eight miles from Columbus, Mo., after being accused of attempted attacks on white women.

Plans for a $3 million slum clearance project in Youngstown is a reminder of the city’s first such project, Oak Park, which saw nearly 100 houses built in 1910 at the north end of Walnut Street.