Years Ago

July 27, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, July 27, the 208th day of 2010. There are 157 days left in the year.

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1909: During the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flies himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Va., for 72 minutes.

1919: Race-related rioting erupts in Chicago; the violence, which claims the lives of 23 blacks and 15 whites, lasts until Aug. 3.

1940: Bugs Bunny makes his “official” debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown says in Washington that violence is “as American as cherry pie.”

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1985: The Ungaro administration abolishes 13 jobs in Youngstown’s Community Development Agency, targeted by Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro as the office most laden with political appointments.

Dr. A. Zeev Rabinowitz, the first Youngstown doctor to perform radial keratotomy surgery, says the new procedure has proven a safe and effective correction for nearsightedness.

1970: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, 83, of 235 S. Hazelwood Ave., the 19th Congressional District’s voice in Washington since 1937 and the seventh ranking member of the House, dies in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he had been a patient since falling at the University Club May 6.

Jeff Malone, a 15-year-old pitcher in the Class B League, pitches a no hit, no run game for McAuley Awning in an 11-0 victory over L&R Sports, striking out 15 batters.

1960: Youngstown City Council President Anthony B. Flask says that “if it comes to choosing between smoke and good payrolls or no smoke and no payrolls, we’ll take the smoke and jobs.”

Rufus Moses, Youngstown division manager of Ohio Edison Co. for 15 years, retires and is succeeded by Howard B. Gould, a former Youngstown resident who has been Alliance division manager.

1935: The U.S. Army Engineers of Pittsburgh are pushing fast to conclude a survey on the so-called Allegheny-French Creek route for the Lake Erie- Ohio River canal.

Peter Malkin, 10, of East Liverpool is swept through 500 feet of a storm sewer into the Ohio River by a flash flood, escaping with just a bruised forehead.