Years Ago

Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, July 19, the 200th day of 2011. There are 165 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1553: King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary is proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed.

1848: A pioneer women’s rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

1943: Allied air forces raid Rome during World War II.

1961: TWA becomes the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presents “By Love Possessed,” starring Lana Turner, to its first-class passengers.

1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics begin, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1989: A United Air Lines DC-10 crashes while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 111 people; 185 other people survived.

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1986: A jury in Miami finds Victor Posner, whose holdings include Sharon Steel Corp. guilty of evading $1.2 million in taxes.

The widow of James O. Huberty, who killed 21 people and wounded 20 during a rampage at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro before being killed by a police sharpshooter, files suit in Canton, Ohio, against McDonald’s, claiming additives in its food contributed to his being violent. The suit also names his former employer, Babcock & Wilcox in Canton, claiming he was exposed to lead and other metals there.

1971: Dan Medvec, 15, of Gregory Avenue beats Jeff Mentzer, 12, of Brooklyn Ave., in the final heat of Youngstown’s Soap Box Derby to take home the crown.

Michael Kunovic, president of Local 1330, United Steelworkers of America, says that the shutdown of the Ohio Works of U.S. Steel Corp. will affect nearly 4,000 employees, not 2,700 as announced by the company.

Charles R. Green of Warren, the first Negro elected commander of the Ohio American Legion, says the organization “cannot remain neutral on any issues affecting law and order.”

1961: Mahoning County commissioners agree to County Welfare Director I.L. Feuer’s recommendation to cut relief payments by 20 percent Aug. 16, a move Feuer said is necessitated by the disappointingly low rate at which employment is rebounding.

G. Stanley Kreiler, chief Mahoning County deputy sheriff, says that unless city police start shutting down gambling in the city, deputies will do it for them. Meanwhile the investigation into the bombing death of racketeer Vince DeNiro is reported bogged down.

1936: Idora Park is host to more than 5,000 railroaders from the Erie Railroad Veterans Association, some from as far away as Jersey City, N.J., and Chicago, Ill.

Second quarter steel profits in general and in the Youngstown district specifically are expected to reach new high levels for the economic recovery period.

The Public Library’s truck is doing heavy business at Youngstown playgrounds while Wick Avenue is closed for reconstruction, making it difficult for many to get to the main library.