Years Ago
Today is Saturday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2012. There are 163 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1861: During the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run is fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.
1925: The so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)
1930: President Herbert Hoover signs an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).
1949: The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blast off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.
1980: Draft registration begins in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.
2010: Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection about a month after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.
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1987: Record use of electricity during a heat wave results in power outages in the Youngstown area and throughout the state.
The Youngstown Area United Way cuts off funding to the McGuffey Centre, citing insufficient activities and administration difficulties.
1972: The Youngstown Fraternal Order of Police votes to ask for a $100 a month pay increase for patrolmen in 1973.
Mayor Jack C. Hunter vetoes an ordinance passed by City Council that would have prevented construction of a $2.4 million apartment complex on Youngstown Poland Road. Hunter says the city is losing population and apartment living is popular.
1962: Youngstown firemen called to extinguish a fire at 941 Alden St. discover an illegal still. Police are called and the 41-year-old owner of the property is arrested although he said he knew nothing about the moonshine operation.
Dominick Moio, 60, a key suspect in the bombing death of Billy Naples, is released from City Jail after bondsman Mario Guerrieri posts a $7,500 bond.
The U.S. Senate Public Works Committee approves Rep. Michael J. Kirwan’s bill to establish a national aquarium in Washington. D.C.
1937: Two couples are killed when a Pittsburgh-bound Buckeye Flyer hits their car at a crossing in Salem. Dead are Kenneth White, 30, Mrs. Dennis De Wan, 30, Helen Laubscher, 24, and Homer Silver Jr., 35.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues unconditional pardons for Anthony Labrizetta, 34, and George Sargent, 39, who have served more than a year in prison for the $125,000 Warren mail robbery that is now attributed to the Karpis gang out of Detroit.
The 100-man special police force established in Youngstown during the steel strike has been reduced to 30.