Years Ago
Today is Wednesday, July 18, the 200th day of 2012. There are 166 days left in the year.
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A.D. 64: The Great Fire of Rome begins.
1792: American naval hero John Paul Jones dies in Paris at age 45.
1872: Britain enacts voting by secret ballot.
1932: The United States and Canada sign a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1940: The Democratic national convention at Chicago Stadium nominates President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.
1969: A car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunges off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha’s Vineyard; his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns.
1976: At the Montreal Olympics, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci receives the first- ever perfect score of 10 with her routine on uneven parallel bars. (Comaneci would go on to receive six more 10s at Montreal.)
1984: James Huberty opens fire at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. Walter F. Mondale wins the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.
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1987: Boardman and Austintown townships agree to drop a lawsuit against Youngstown challenging the city’s 40 percent surcharge on water, and Mayor Patrick Ungaro lifts the ban on tap-ins he instituted in response to the suit.
Owners of pit bull terriers throughout Ohio say they will challenge a state law that brands their dogs as vicious.
1972: Three women complete their first day on the job as laborers at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Tube Mill. The pioneers are Joan Zaccone, Bertha Howard and Mary DeBouse.
Dr. Gordon F. Ogram, who has been involved in setting up the community mental health program in Youngstown, is named commissioner of the Ohio Division of Mental Health.
1962: Dominic Moio, 60, who is in Youngstown city jail as a key suspect in the bombing death of rackets figure Billy Naples faces the possibility of deportation.
The daily double in the first and second races at Thistledown pays $4,337, the highest in Northern Ohio racing history. Little Pharo paid $58.40 in the first race; Janie Fox, named for Vindicator write Janie Jenkins by her husband, R.E. Jenkins, returned $70.80 in the second race. Six bettors held winning tickets.
1937: Attorney General Cummings asks President Roosevelt to pardon Anthony Labrizetta, 34, and George Sargent, 39, of Warren, who were twice convicted of a $135,000 mail robbery in Cleveland in 1933. Cummings says despite the convictions, he’s convinced that they are innocent.
With virtually no funds, parishioners and priests at Holy Rosary Church, Lowellville, break ground on an addition for which they will do all the work.