Years ago

Today is Monday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2011. There are 173 days left in the year.

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1798: Congress re-establishes the U.S. Marine Corps and creates the U.S. Marine Band.

1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.

1864: Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early begin an abortive invasion of Washington, D.C., turning back the next day.

1952: The Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Dwight D. Eisenhower for president.

1960: The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published.

1979: The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab makes a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

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1986: The Thunderbirds, the Air Force precision flying team, arrives at Youngstown Municipal Airport, where it is scheduled to perform at the Youngstown Air Reserve base’s air show.

Trumbull County officials hold an unannounced meeting to discuss county finances, in apparent violation of the state’s open meetings law.

1971: Three graduates of the St. Elizabeth Hospital School for Nurse Anesthetists receive certification after taking national exams: Patricia Rice Boggs, Martha Loar and Sarah Jean Millburn.

The Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. launches an 875-foot ship built by General Dynamics in Quincy, Mass. The $70-million ship is christened by Ashley Lykes, 17-year-old daughter of Joseph T. Lykes Jr., chairman of Lykes-Youngstown Corp.

1961: Youngstown Police Chief Cyril Smolko disputes Vindicator articles that described the “Hideaway” in the basement of the Victoria Restaurant as a teenage hangout where alcoholic beverages are sold to underage drinkers.

Burglars cut through a stained glass window in St. Columba Cathedral to gain entrance and do several hundreds of dollars in damage while searching for money.

1936: The Brier Hill pipe mill of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. has begun filling an order for 5,000 tons of electric weld pipe for the United Gas Public Service Co. of Houston, Texas.

A 14-year-old Belmont County, Ohio, girl testifies that she stayed overnight at a W. Va. Tourist home with her 41-year-old mathematics teacher and one of his five children, a 3-year-old daughter.

An explosion, apparently from a crude dynamite bomb, shatters two plate glass windows at the Peacock Gardens, Wayne and South avenues, in Youngstown.