Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2012. There are 173 days left in the year.

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1798: The U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also creates the U.S. Marine Band.

1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.

1937: American composer and pianist George Gershwin, whose works included “Rhapsody in Blue,” “An American in Paris,” and “Porgy and Bess,” dies at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38.

1952: The Republican national convention in Chicago, nominates Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.

1979: The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab makes a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

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1987: Warren opens its three-day arts festival, Celebration on the Square, with heavy crowds during the day and an evening performance of the Ohio Ballet.

1972: The Ohio Board of Education rejects a request to transfer 276 Coitsville students from the Youngstown School District to the Campbell School District.

Starring at the Kenley Players in Warren, Dom DeLuise in “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.”

1962: The Mullins Manufacturing Corp. will close its Warren plant and consolidate all of its Youngstown Kitchen Division operations at its Salem plant.

Girard City Auditor Dorothy Gorenz tells city council that the city cannot afford $1,000 a month that the city of Niles is demanding on a long-standing $16,000 water debt.

1937: A lightning storm sparks a fire that heavily damages Hopewell Presbyterian Church at New Bedford, Pa., behind which are buried the parents of William and Alexander McGuffey, authors of the famous McGuffey readers and spelling books.

Plans are moving forward to reopen the last of the plants closed by a strike of CIO steelworkers, including the Niles plant of the Republic Steel Corp. and the Indiana Harbor Works of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.