Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2012. There are 174 days left in the year.

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1919: President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urges its ratification. (The Senate rejects it.)

1929: American paper currency is reduced in size as the government begins issuing bills that are approximately 25 percent smaller.

1961: Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally,” is paroled from a federal prison in West Virginia after serving 11 years for treason for her propaganda broadcasts from Nazi Germany during World War II.

1962: AT&T’s Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of relaying television signals and telephone calls, is launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral.

1982: Pope John Paul II names Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati to succeed the late Cardinal John Cody as head of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

1985: The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist is killed.

1991: President George H.W. Bush lifts economic sanctions against South Africa.

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1987: Under pressure from Ohio and Pennsylvania legislators, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. agrees to negotiate with LTV Corp. and the United Steelworkers Union over a proposal to restore most of the supplemental benefits lost by LTV retirees.

Youngstown police take 21 youngsters into custody after they failed to disperse following a teen show at the Starr Palace on Federal Plaza West.

1972: Sunday store operations and bingo games are back in full swing in Struthers after four police captains relent from their threat to shut down bingo and strictly enforce the city’s blue laws.

A Youngstown realtor testifies that if he complied with occupancy requirements in a new city ordinance it would add $1,000 to the cost of a $4,500 house.

1962: Joseph G. Butler, director of the Butler Institute of American Art, receives the 1962 Chautauqua Art Association Patron of American Art Award.

Bud “Buzzbomb” Steede of Newcomerstown roars to top honors in scrambles races at the Western Reserve Motorcycle Club’s track off Middletown Road near Salem.

1937: Harry Sloan, a former circus ringmaster who lived in Youngstown for nine years and became widely known as an Indian medicine man, is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in an Osage tribal ceremony conducted by his wife, Princess Os-Ko-Mon, and her nephew, Rising Star.

Nine Youngstown steelworkers are stricken by the heat as the city enters its fourth day of a statewide heat wave.