Today is Sunday, July 25, the 206th day of 2010. There are 159 days left in the year.

July 25, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1866: Ulysses S. Grant is named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.

1946: The U.S. detonates an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the first underwater test of the device.

1952: Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1960: A Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, N.C., where protesters marched against its whites-only lunch counter drops its segregation policy, serving three of its black employees at the counter.

1963: The U.S., Soviet Union and Britain initial a treaty in Moscow prohibiting nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in space or underwater.

1994: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein sign a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old formal state of war.

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1985: General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers reach an agreement on a Saturn contract, clearing the way for an announcement of a Saturn plant site, which is rumored to be in Spring Hill, Tenn.

Youngstown Finance Director Gary Kubic contradicts Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro and says checks will not be issued to city employees unless the Civil Service Commission certifies the payroll. The commission has demanded that all city employes provide proof of residency in the city.

1970: The Ohio Highway Patrol’s final report on the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University takes no stand on the action taken by the Ohio National Guard.

More than 300 Civil War troops from 24 states reenact the battle of Chancellorsville during an encampment at the Columbiana County Fairgrounds.

1960: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. plans to install oxygen injection facilities on its Campbell Works open hearth furnaces, sharply boosting capacity, unless there is widespread local objection to a smoke problem.

Mahoning County Prosecuting Attorney Thomas A. Beil, a 19th District delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, loses his first attempt to open the door of the Ohio delegation to Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Vice President Richard Nixon has already addressed the Ohio delegation.

Kate S. Bumstead, retiring after 43 years as a social workers with the Family Service Society of Youngstown, says children can weather a great deal if they receive both love and firmness from their parents and if the parents have a good relationship between themselves.

1935: The Youngstown Area Metropolitan Citizens Association is supporting a plan to use Paul Puncec, a justice of the peace from Campbell, and constables deputized by Puncec to conduct raids on bug and horse race bookies, bootleggers and vice in Youngstown and Mahoning County.

Campbell police are holding a 39 year old Penhale Ave. man who is accused of throwing a hammer at a group of boys who were throwing rocks at his house. Joseph Knapp, 6, was hit in the head by the hammer and died.

Republic Steel Corp. reports a profit of $2.7 million for the first six months of 1935, the highest profit since the company organized in 1930.