Years ago

Today is Thursday, July 14, the 195th day of 2011. There are 170 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison and release the seven prisoners inside.

1881: Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy the Kid,” is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

1911: Harry N. Atwood becomes the first pilot to land an airplane (a Wright Model B biplane) on the grounds of the White House after flying in from Boston; he is greeted by President William Howard Taft.

1913: Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, is born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb.

1933: All German political parties, except the Nazi Party, are outlawed.

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1986: At the outset of a hearing in U.S. tax court, U.S. Rep. James A Traficant Jr. dismisses his two lawyers. The government says Traficant owes $145,000 on money he received from organized crime figures during his 1980 campaign.

An estimated 20,000 people attend the Founders Day celebration marking Hubbard’s 185th anniversary.

1971: Ohio Bell Telephone Co. seeks an injunction limiting striking pickets outside the company’s West Rayen Avenue building.

The Youngstown Board of Education votes to convert Hayes School into a sixth, seventh and eighth grade school.

A goal of $1.8 million is established for the fall campaign of the United Appeal drive in Mahoning County.

1961: Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone has a private audience with Pope John XXIII. It was his first time meeting the pope.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown asserts the proposed Lake Erie-Ohio River canal is made essential by completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1936: Four more victims from the Youngstown area are added to those who have died in a six-day heat wave that has claimed 17 lives.

The loss is estimated at $10,000 in a fire that gutted the Youngstown Mattress Co. plant at 730 Arlington Ave.

Youngstown Mayor Lionel Evans shifts City Hall to summer hours, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. rather than 8:30 to 4:30.