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July 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2010. There are 156 days left in the year.

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1540: King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, is executed, the same day Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

1609: The English ship Sea Venture, commanded by Admiral Sir George Somers, runs ashore on Bermuda, where the passengers and crew found a colony.

1821: Peru declares its independence from Spain.

1914: World War I begns as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

1932: Federal troops forcibly disperse the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington to demand money they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

1945: A U.S. Army bomber crashes into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

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1985: Spring Hill, Tenn., which won GM’s prize, the new Saturn plant, had no community effort aimed at attracting the plant to its city, and the state of Tennessee offered no incentives. “We’re not a give-away state,” says Ted Von Cannon, deputy commissioner of economic development for Tennessee.

Camp Kiwatani, the Camp Fire Council’s camp at Ellsworth, is bursting at the seams as children and leaders from 13 different countries attend Children’s International Summer Village.

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says Youngstown is studying the possibility of going into the cable television business in competition with Warner-Amex Cable.

1970: Campbell City Council approves a $5 license plate tax by a 4-2 vote at a special meeting.

The Walrus Co. of Youngstown obtains financing for development of a 124-unit apartment complex on North Road, just south of Route 422, in Niles.

Dr. Robert J. Gerberry receives his license in optometry upon passing the Ohio State Board of Optometry examination. He is a graduate of Cardinal Mooney High School and the Ohio State University.

1960: Youngstown area chambers of commerce pledge their support for Youngstown‘s request for the U.S. Air Force’s unused facilities at the Youngstown Minipool Airport, which include part of a 7,500-foot runway.

Ohio’s “fair trade” law that went into effect in 1959 and is aimed at keeping up prices of name brand products is ruled unconstitutional by a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge.

On Kenley Players stage at the Packard Music Hall, Robert Goulet and Betty Johnson in “Carousel.”

Mayor Frank R. Franko says “considerable study” will be required before he feels the city can go along with a Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. proposal to improve its open hearth operations, which would intensify the Valley smoke problem.

1935: The Mahoning County Board of Elections discusses hiring 10 workers per precinct rather than six. At a cost of $6 each per day, the move would increase the cost of the election by $3,120.

Milk deliveries and newspapers subscriptions indicate that increasing numbers of Youngstowners are taking vacations in 1935, a sign of returning prosperity. The newspaper is receiving about 300 “vacation stops” a week and travel agents say an estimated 200 residents will be traveling to Europe this summer.

Youngstown Mayor Mark E. Moore will back no mayoralty candidate and declares he is not looking for any city job under his successor.

Ted Luther of Youngstown wins the Ohio Open golf crown in Toledo, beating Billy Burke of Cleveland in a playoff.