Years Ago

Today is Monday, July 9, the 191st day of 2012. There are 175 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1816: Argentina declares independence from Spain.

1850: The 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, dies after serving only 16 months of his term. (He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.)

1896: William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous “cross of gold” speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago.

1918: One hundred and one people are killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tenn.

1947: The engagement of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten is announced.

1951: President Harry S. Truman asks Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany. (The official end is declared in October 1951.)

1962: The Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles begins exhibiting pop artist Andy Warhol’s now-famous set of 32 paintings of Campbell’s soup cans.

1974: Former U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren dies in Washington, D.C., at age 83.

1992: Democrat Bill Clinton taps Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate

Former CBS News commentator Eric Sevareid dies in Washington at age 79.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. wants to meet with school officials to discuss the school board’s transfer of Lock P. Beachum from the principalship of East High School to that of Princeton Junior High School.

The Trumbull County Office of Elderly Affairs will continue its transportation program thanks to $73,000 raised through a fund drive, Project Miracle, and $165,000 transferred by Trumbull County commissioners from the general fund.

Fisher Foods, claiming it is losing $1 million a month, is closing all 62 of its Fisher Fazio and Carl’s supermarkets in northern Ohio.

1972: The Western Reserve Transit Authority will borrow $65,000 to maintain operations until it can begin collecting the proceeds from a 1-mill levy approved by voters.

Patrolman Ernest Kovach of the Campbell Police Department is named juvenile officer of the newly created Juvenile Bureau.

Charles Caffie, Warren’s “Mr. Baseball,” will help promote the Connie Mack Baseball Tournament in Youngstown in early August.

1962: Thirty-two foreign students in the United States from 26 countries spend two days in Poland before returning home, guests of the Poland chapter of the American Field Service.

Arson is suspected in a fire that did $25,000 damage to the Twenty-One Club at 2123 Belmont Ave.

1937:Youngstown is gripped in the warmest heat wave of the summer, with temperatures reaching 94 degrees; across the nation, 126 deaths are attributed to heat.

William Green, president of the A.F. of L., says the C.I.O. lost the steel strike through “stupid blunders” and violent, un-American tactics.