Years Ago

Today is Thursday, July 19, the 201st day of 2012. There are 165 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1553: King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary is proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed.

1848: A pioneer women’s rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

1943: Allied air forces raid Rome during World War II.

1952: The Summer Olympics open in Helsinki.

1961: TWA becomes the first airline to begin showing regularly in-flight movies as it presented “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers.

1969: Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, enter orbit around the moon.

1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics begins, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1989: 111 people are killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa; 185 others survive.

1990: President George H.W. Bush joins former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif.

1992: Anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino is killed along with five members of his security escort in a car bombing in Palermo, Sicily.

2002: The Dow Jones industrials dip below their post-terrorist attack lows in a 390-point selloff.

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1987: Two Trumbull County commissioners, Arthur U. Magee and Christopher S. Lardis, express concern that putting a 911 emergency system issue on the November ballot could detract support for a county sales tax issue that is already on the ballot.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says he will pursue annexation of the Youngstown Municipal Airport to the city if area communities do not support creation of a regional airport authority to operate the facility.

Liberty Presbyterian Church will hold a three-par commemorative program marking the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance.

1972: The Youngstown Education Association asks the 7th District Court of Appeals to overturn an order by Common Pleas Judge Elwyn Jenkins that enjoined the Youngstown Board of Education from enforcing discipline procedures at Hayes Middle School that were agreed to by the board and teachers union.

About 100 Ohio Bell Telephone operators who walked off the job at the W. Rayen Avenue traffic building return to work after the company and Communications Workers union agree to discuss grievance procedures.

Atty. Dennis Haines asks for a mandamus writ from Mahoning County Common Pleas Court compelling the Youngstown Civil Service Commission to take jurisdiction over nonteaching employees of the Youngstown school district.

1962: City Council gives conditional approval to the Downtown Board of Trade’s plan for a three-day sales carnival, which would include a high-wire act and carnival rides on Central Square.

Decker R. Fithian, 86, of Clifton Drive, president of Fithian Cement Products Co. and prominent real estate broker, dies of a heart ailment.

Pennsylvania Engineering Corp. at New Castle produces the world’s largest scrap charging machine for steel mill service. It has a capacity of 3,000 cubic feet.

Seven girls are vying for Hubbard Homecoming Queen: Helen Veach, Elaine Lowry, Bernice Praznik, Jane Craig, Juanita Merwin, Lona Pastore and Delores Burrows.

Mahoning County commissioners sign a tentative 1963 budget of $5.7 million, after cutting $170,000 from requests made by department heads.

1937: Mayor Lionel Evans tells city council’s finance committee that the salaries of city employees, which were reduced 10 percent in 1936, will be restored to the rates in effect in December 1935.

Wilbur Parr leads three other Mahoning deputy sheriffs on a raid of the College Inn at 5214 Market St, confiscating a “26” game and arresting Ethel McFalls, 22, on a charge of exhibiting a gambling device.

Bituminous coal prices are expected to jump about 50 cents a ton to $6.50 in response to the Guffey-Vinson Act that outlaws price-fixing.