Years Ago

Years Ago

Today is Friday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2011. There are 162 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1796: Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

1861: The U.S. House of Representatives passes a resolution declaring the Civil War was being waged to preserve the Union rather than to end slavery, a stance that would shift as the conflict continued. (The Senate passed a similar resolution three days later.)

1893: Wellesley College professor Katharine Lee Bates visits the summit of Pikes Peak, where she was inspired to write the original version of her poem “America the Beautiful.”

1916: A bomb goes off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people.

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”

1943: American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.

1946: Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.

1975: The House of Representatives joins the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

1991: Police in Milwaukee arrest Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys.

1995: Susan Smith is convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons.

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1986: The United Steelworkers Union says it will sue LTV Corp. if necessary to get restoration of retiree medical and life insurance coverage.

Radioactive fuel from Three Mile Island has been shipped through Columbiana County without local officials being notified. Local officials say they’ve learned there will be 30 to 35 additional trains coming through the area during the next two years.

Joseph D. Williamson, vice president of the WKBN Broadcasting Corp. is elected board chairman of Leadership Youngstown.

1971: A tray of loose diamonds is taken from the safe at James Modarelli Jewelry Store. No value was given.

The Youngstown Civil Service Commission upholds a 14-day suspension of Patrolman Anthony Gutierrez who was accused of “not showing proper respect to a superior officer.”

The Hubbard Board of Education adopts a 181-day school year, with teachers scheduled to work 186 days.

1961: Dr. David A. Belinky, Mahoning County coroner, says if Youngstown wants to wage war on the rackets, it should start by putting the police chief under civil service to remove him from the influence of the mayor and eliminate the vice squad and give every police officer orders to crack down on gambling and vice.

Twenty-four volunteer Ohio Penitentiary inmates are injected with live cancer cells by a doctor from the Sloan-Kettering Institute.

Armed with a new radar-equipped car, Liberty police are continuing their crackdown on speeders, nabbing 39 in two days.

1936: More than 25,000 Youngstown telephone subscribers will get refunds totaling $1.2 million from the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. under an order from the Ohio Public Utilities Commission.

Atty. Carl A. Armstrong, prominent Youngstown Democrat, is nominated for Youngstown Postmaster by his friend, Sen. Vic Donahey.

Peltier’s Comet streaks across the Youngstown sky on schedule, but it was smaller and less defined than some had expected and it was difficult to find in the Milky Way.