Years Ago

Today is Friday, July 6, the 188th day of 2012. There are 178 days left in the year.

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1885: French scientist Louis Pasteur tests an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy does not develop rabies.

1933: The first All-Star baseball game is played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; American League defeats the National League, 4-2.

1944: An estimated 168 people die in a fire that breaks out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.

1957: Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeats fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

1962: Nobel Prize-winning American author William Faulkner, one of the giants of Southern literature, dies in Byhalia, Miss., at age 64.

1971: Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, 69, dies in New York.

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1987: Ten strikebound Sparkle Markets in Mahoning and Trumbull counties are closed, and Leo Jennings, a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, speculates that the company will sell the stores to new owners who will operate them as independent franchises.

Ohio’s new budget wipes out a $500,000 windfall Mahoning County had expected and which it intended to use to balance Sheriff Edward Nemeth’s budget. The department faces the prospect of layoffs.

1972: Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent P. Gilmartin says his office will not prosecute a 16-year-old W. Warren Avenue boy who shot and killed Ronald King, 24. Gilmartin says King had beaten the boy’s sister and the boy was defending his family.

Almost every school district in the Youngstown area is benefiting from Ohio’s new income tax, receiving about $100 per pupil, the equivalent of nearly 5.5 mills of property taxes.

1962: The Ohio Highway Patrol charges a 22-year- old Pennsylvania truck driver with three counts of vehicular manslaughter in a crash near Berlin Center that killed Honor and Thelma Dales of Salem and Roscoe Nyes of Washingtonville.

An Ohio State University poll shows that 39 percent of the 6,700 men drawing extended unemployment benefits in Youngstown in 1961 did not want to change jobs.

Two Youngstown men pass state examinations licensing them as architects: Joseph G. Klempay and Howard F. Schafer.

1937: The Mahoning County grand jury returns more than 200 indictments ranging from incitement to unlawful assembly against steel strikers and their leaders in the strike against Republic Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.

Dorothy M. Carew, a Vindicator reporter traveling in Europe with her father, Youngstown Rotary Club President George J. Carew, reports on a meeting between 50 members of the Rotary tour with Benito Mussolini, Italy’s Il Duce, in Rome.