Years Ago

July 19, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, July 19, the 200th day of 2010. There are 165 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1553: King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary is proclaimed Queen of England after teenage pretender Lady Jane Grey, is deposed. (Lady Jane Grey, who claimed the throne for nine days, is later executed for high treason.)

1848: A pioneer women’s rights convention meets in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

1969: Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, go into orbit around the moon.

1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics begins, minus dozens of nations that are boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1984: U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York wins the Democratic nomination for vice president by acclamation at the party’s convention in San Francisco.

1985: Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire is chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members die when the Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff in Jan. 1986.)

1990: Baseball’s all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, is sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.

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1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says he is acting at the request of Mayor Patrick Ungaro in his attempt to iron out issues between the Cafaro Co. and federal officials that are preventing construction of the $9.3 million Ronneburg brewery.

Van Huffel Tube Corp. in Warren files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of U.S. bankruptcy law.

1970: Canfield’s sewage treatment plant northwest of the village on Saw Mill Run is a major polluter of Meander Reservoir, domestic water supply for Youngstown, Niles and vicinity, based on water samples taken by The Vindicator and analyzed by Youngstown State University.

1960: City law director S. Samuel Feckett says he will not approve using funds from the $8.8 million expressway bond issue for the Madison Avenue Expressway, which is estimated to cost $6 million.

Henry Lee Williams, 60, who has been arrested 1,080 times, most of the arrests being for public intoxication, says he drinks because there is nothing else to do in Youngstown.

McKay Machine Co. shareholders vote to acquire control of Federal Machine & Welder Co. of Warren and two other firms, creating a major Midwest machinery builder that will employ 1,000.

1935: Three people are fined and eight await hearings after 18 state raiders descend on Youngstown liquor spots, including two drug stores operated by Thomas P. McCready.

A ceremony honoring John H. Chase, director of the Youngstown Playground Association who developed girls baseball in the city in 1923, is held at the Rayen Stadium before a game between the McKenzie Tire and Moyer girls teams.