Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, July 6, the 187th day of 2011. There are 178 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1809: French troops arrest Pope Pius VII, who had excommunicated Emperor Napoleon I; the pope is confined for about five years.

1885: French scientist Louis Pasteur tests an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.

1917: During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi capture the port of Aqaba from the Turks.

1944: An estimated 168 people die in a fire that breaks out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.

1971: Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, 69, dies in New York.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Warren city officials meet to discuss cutting costs for Warren Municipal Court, including the possibility of eliminating one of the two judgeships.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins names Luwayne Annos to head a new Senior Citizen Abuse Unit in the Victim-Witness Assistance program.

The Vindicator publishes its last edition of the Rotogravure section, which was a part of the Sunday paper for more than 50 years.

1971: A shipment of more than 1,200, 1,000-pound bombs jostled in a train derailment near Cambridge Springs, Pa., is back on track and headed for the Ravenna Arsenal .

Roosevelt swimming pool in Campbell is closed after vandals break windows and throw glass and other materials into the pool.

Bob Thompson, Youngstown State University tennis coach and co-owner of the Boardman Racquet Club, wins the seniors title at the Ohio Hardcourt Tennis Tournament at Volney Rogers courts.

1961: A 1953 Buick filled with six teen-agers collides with a truck in route 34 at Palmyra Road, killing Michael P. Henry, 16, of Youngstown, and Sharon J. Jones, 15, and Beverley Hershman, 15, both of Austintown.

Dr. William Howard Hayden, a distinguished dentist who practiced for more than 50 years, dies at his Lincoln Avenue home at the age of 92.

1936: An attempt by six young bandits to hold up the Toma Cottage Inn on Belmont Avenue Ext. is foiled by two women, Frances Fowler, 37, and Ellen Hoffman, after Mrs. Fowler knocked the gun from one robber’s hand.

A second steam shovel is put into operation working on the Wick Avenue grade crossing elimination project, excavating the hill between Champion Street and Wick.