Years Ago

Today is Sunday, July 22, the 204th day of 2012. There are 162 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1587: An English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances is established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

1796: Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by General Moses Cleaveland.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln presents to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

1893: Wellesley College professor Katharine Lee Bates visits the summit of Pikes Peak, where she is inspired to write the original version of her poem “America the Beautiful.”

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”

1937: The Senate rejects President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

1942: Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons begins along the Atlantic seaboard.

1962: Mariner 1, NASA’s first attempt at sending a spacecraft to Venus, is destroyed shortly after launch because of faulty steering.

1975: The House of Representatives joins the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

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1987: Lawrence County commissioners authorize Bell Telephone Co. to install the equipment necessary for a 911 emergency telephone system.

Warren Municipal Judge-elect Lynn B. Griffith Jr. is appointed by Gov. Richard Celeste to succeed the late Judge William B. Jobe.

Dave Dravecky pitches a six-hit shutout as the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-0 and pull within four games of the first-place Cincinnati Reds.

1972: W. Federal Street from Central Square to Phelps, closed for 10 days, will be reopened while contractors work on removing the cornice from the Wick Building. Scaffolding has been erected to protect against any more falling pieces.

A study group has been formed to make recommendations to the Ohio Board of Regents for new medical schools in the state.

Appearing at the Limelighter Lounge, 2505 Market St., Bobby Rydell and the American Scene.

1962: The movement of young adults from Youngstown, a trend discussed widely in many circles in recent years, is documented by a new City Planning Commission report on population trends.

Among the 220 South High School graduates of 1942 attending the 20th class reunion is Naval Air Force Commander Robert W. Probyn and Jack and Philomena Jurey (he’s with WTOP in Washington, D.C., and she’s with the U.S. Information Agency).

Mary Alderdice of Hubbard will play as a guest artist with the University Orchestra at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Mich.

1937: Following the clue of a headlight rim found lying near the body of 13-year-old Donald Eichhorn, victim of a hit-run driver on South Meridian Road, Deputy Sheriffs Frank M. Burnside and C.M. Brown arrest three men, including the alleged driver who is charged with second degree manslaughter.

Richard B. Hardman, Massillon city solicitor, tells the Labor Board in Washington that of 165 pickets arrested after the Massillon steel strike riot July 11, only five were subject to deportation.

Two Youngstown detectives, Louis A. Giopp and J.W. Turnbull, break a ring of automobile thieves operating in Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania who resold $12,000 worth of stolen cars as used cars in the Mahoning Valley.