Saturday, July 16, 2011
Today is Saturday, July 16, the 197th day of 2011. There are 168 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1790: A site along the Potomac River is designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area becomes Washington, D.C.
1911: Actress-dancer Ginger Rogers is born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Mo.
1935: The first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City.
1945: The United States explodes its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M.
1951: The novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger is first published by Little, Brown and Co.
1964: As he accepts the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater says “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and that “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
1969: Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
1981: Singer Harry Chapin is killed when his car is struck by a tractor-trailer on New York’s Long Island Expressway.
1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when their single-engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, plunges into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard.
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1986: Representatives of Youngstown State University’s administration and faculty announce a tentative contract agreement that will raise faculty salaries 24 percent over three years.
The Crime Watch Council of Youngstown claims it is the victim of power struggles and political fights after the Youngstown Police Department withdraws its membership.
The state awards a grant of $358,537 to the Western Reserve Transit Authority for the purchase of 13 new buses.
1971: Janis Ullman Goodridge, caseworker for the Catholic Service League, is named executive director of the Florence Crittenton Home.
Youngstown has become the largest city in Ohio to form a “Jobs for Veterans Task Force” to aid an estimated 1,700 district veterans who are without jobs.
1961: Six members of the executive board of the Mahoning County Independent Negro Voters Association resign from the organization, saying it failed to keep its independence by being too closely aligned with Mayor Frank R. Franko’s administration.
Acy Jackson, a United Presbyterian missionary to West Pakistan, returns to his Youngstown home and says the hostility toward the Christian minority becomes evident during athletic competition between Christian and Moslem schools.
A late summer boom in steel orders is anticipated and is likely to touch off another general wave of expansion and modernization of the Youngstown district’s major industrial plants.
1936: Harry Carlock, a scrap yard shearman, shoots and fatally wounds his daughter, Martha, 19, and wounds another daughter, Margaret, 9, at their Roche Avenue home before taking his own life.
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, speaking before the Old Age Revolving Pensions national convention in Cleveland, denounces Franklin D. Roosevelt as a betrayer and says the GOP stands for economic slavery, as he urges support for a third party.
Niles Mayor Fred R. Williams threatens to “knock the block off” Council President Carl Solomonson, after hearing that council’s police committee had accused the department of “inefficient and slipshod” efforts against bug gamblers.