Years Ago

Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2010. There are 163 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1861: The first Battle of Bull Run is fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.

1925: The so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction is later overturned on a technicality.)

1930: President Herbert Hoover signs an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).

1944: American forces land on Guam during World War II.

1949: The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.

1959: The NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, is christened by first lady Mamie Eisenhower at Camden, N.J.

1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world’s first female prime minister as she is sworn in to head the government of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone welcomes Archbishop Jerzy Stroba of Poznan, Poland, to Youngstown.

The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee asks Dr. William Binning, chairman of the Mahoning County GOP, to find a candidate to challenge U.S. Rep. James A Traficant Jr. in 1986.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker rejects a request for an injunction against construction of apartments for senior citizens by Sts. Peter & Paul Byzantine Catholic Church on East Market Street, between Belvedere NE and Kenmore NE.

1970: The Federal Aviation Administration’s new $1 million control tower goes into service at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Miss Eleanor Davies retires as a kindergarten teacher at Taft Elementary in Youngstown, where she taught primary grades for 41 years.

Damage is estimated at $77,000 to Ted’s Mill Tavern and four apartments at 103 Twelfth Street in Campbell.

1960: A $125,000 fire sweeps through the fabricating building at Sawhill Tubular Products Co. at Wheatland, Pa.

Youngstown City Council approves plans for a $6.5 million slum clearance project.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections proposes spending $217,000 to improve its 825 voting machines to avoid ballot problems similar to those experienced in the May primary and the purchase of 44 additional machines for $82,500.

Starring at the Kenley Players at the Packard Music Hall in Warren, Anna Maria Alberghetti in “Rose Marie.”

1935: Youngstown’s Michael J. Lyden, a fiery little Irishman who fights to the last for what he thinks is right, is elected president of the Ohio Federation of Labor.

House Republican leader Bertrand Snell of New York says President Roosevelt’s “latest vagary,” the proposed taxes on wealth, brings the president “perilously close to what some people call impeachable grounds.”