Years Ago

July 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, July 23, the 204th day of 2010. There are 161 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in :

1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.

1914: Austria-Hungary issues a list of demands to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute leads to World War I.

1952: Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launch a successful coup against King Farouk I.

1967: A week of deadly race-related rioting that claims 43 lives erupts in Detroit.

1985: Commodore International Ltd. unveils its Amiga 1000 personal computer during a press event at New York’s Lincoln Center.

1990: President George H.W. Bush announces his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Gov. Richard F. Celeste vetoes a bill that would have allowed water companies like the Masury Water Co. to raise prices without seeking approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Ted Buckman, 38, a Holland, N.Y., horse dealer and five of 10 valuable horses in the trailer he was hauling, are killed in a fiery crash when his truck strikes a tree on route 87 in Mesopotamia Township in northern Trumbull County.

1970: An FBI report on the May 4 shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University concludes that the shootings were “not necessary and not in order” and could result in criminal charges.

Two members of the Chosen Few motorcycle gang of Youngstown are mentioned during testimony before a Senate subcommittee investigating bomb threats from radicals. Illinois undercover agents say they bought a half ton of dynamite from the gang members.

1960: A 12-foot Italian marble statue of Our Lady of Hungary is installed across from Our Lady of Hungary Church on Belle Vista Avenue.

Judge Elmer T. Phillips of 67 Jeannette Drive, a member of the 7th District Court of Appeals since 1938, dies in North Side Hospital.

1935: A bandit armed with a pistol confronts Dorothy Luzier, bookkeeper at the Boy Scouts headquarters on the second floor of 36 Phelps St., forcing her to hand over $175 that had recently been collected for local and national Boy Scouts activities.

Three Youngstown men recommended by the Youngstown Metropolitan Area Association to run for mayor, Atty. Friedman, C.B. Cushwa and William Davies, decline to run.