Years Ago

Years Ago

Today is Thursday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2011. There are 163 days left in the year.

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1861: During the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run is fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.

1899: Author Ernest Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Ill.; poet Hart Crane is born in Garrettsville, Ohio.

1925: The so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)

1930: President Herbert Hoover signs an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).

1944: American forces land on Guam during World War II.

1949: The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.

1961: Capt. Virgil “Gus” Grissom becomes the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the Liberty Bell 7.

1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blast off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.

1980: Draft registration begins in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.

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1986: GM officials say an experimental 10-hour, four-day work week has proven “very successful.”

Staughton Lynd, an attorney with Northeast Ohio Legal Services, says the time may be coming when worker-ownership of a Youngstown area steel mill will be a reality.

The Buick Youngstown Co. donates a 1986 Buick Park Avenue that was damaged in transit and needs body work to the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School for use in auto mechanics classes.

Mark Draa of Vernon Township, who played on the University of Akron baseball team, is named a collegiate Academic All-American by the United States Achievement Academy.

1971: A defective motor in an overhead door touches off a $500,000 blaze that leveled the Deforest Buick-Cadillac Co. on Main Avenue in Sharon.

U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney tells the House that steel imports forced the closing of U.S. Steel Corp.’s Ohio Works in Youngstown and says he is concerned about the excessive imports of steel, especially stainless and specialty steels.

Five years after a 20-year-old census worker, Lynda Moore, was stabbed to death on an Ashtabula County country road, the murder remains unsolved and with no solid leads.

1961: Residents in the Salem and Youngstown area report seeing a strange object with a fiery tail move across the night sky for several minutes.

Youngstown City Engineer J. Phillip Richley says he has given up on trying to get competitive bids for road salt and has awarded a contract to Youngstown Building Material & Supply Co.

Three members of the Youngstown DeMolay — Thomas Dunbar, Robert Shears and David Collins — receive the highest award the organization can give active members, the Order of Chevalier.

Dr. Morris Slavin is appointed to the full-time history faculty at Youngstown University.

The Marshall Drug Store at 36 W. Federal St. will close at the end of the business day, citing high overhead as the principal reason.

1936: Joseph E. Julius, former Campbell Memorial football star and son of former mayor Joseph E. Julius Sr., dies of a broken neck after falling from the running board of a friend’s car on East Broad Street.

The Mahoning County Democratic Party pledges its full support to the re-election of U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, saying any dissension in the party is only in the minds of Republicans.

Kansas Gov. Alfred M. Landon, Republican nominee for president, will return to West Middlesex, Pa., place of his birth, to launch his campaign Aug. 21 or 22.

Sharon Steel Corp. reports a net profit of $268,335 in the second quarter.