Years Ago

Today is Monday, July 23, the 205th day of 2012. There are 161 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.

1914: Austria-Hungary issues a list of demands to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.

1942: Harry James and his Orchestra record “I Had the Craziest Dream” in Hollywood for Columbia Records.

1945: French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, goes on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted.)

1951: Henri Petain dies in prison.

1952: Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launch a successful coup against King Farouk I.

1962: The first public TV transmissions over Telstar 1 take place during a special program featuring live shots beamed from the United States to Europe, and vice versa.

1967: A week of deadly race-related rioting that claimed 43 lives erupts in Detroit.

1977: A jury in Washington, D.C., convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.

1982: Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, are killed when a helicopter crashes on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.)

1986: Britain’s Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)

1997: The search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat, an apparent suicide.

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1987: Wean United Inc., which employs 350 at a plant and office complex on Henricks Road, reports a record quarterly profit of $520,000, only the second quarterly profit since 1981.

The Youngstown Free-Net Network, sponsored by Youngstown State University and St. Elizabeth Hospital, is a free computer network offering medical, sports and cultural information, only the second of its kind in the nation.

1972: Susan Kay Webb, 16, dies in South Side Hospital of injuries sustained when her horse fell on her during the Youngstown charity Horse Show at Canfield.

William J. Lyden is elected president of the Mahoning-Columbiana Building trades Council.

1962: James J. Lawson, 74-year-odl founder of the Lawson Milk Co., is killed when his car collides with a truck near his home in Stow.

Assistant Mahoning County Prosecutor Loren VanBrocklin announces that the Mahoning County grand jury will investigate the murder of racketeer Billy Naples.

1937: Eight men indicted by the Mahoning County grand jury following its probe of steel strike activities are released on $2,000 bond after being arraigned before Judge George H. Gessner.

A section of the downtown district is endangered by the possibility of a serous explosion when fumes from a leaking gasoline pipe filled the basement of the Youngstown Garage at Boardman and Phelps streets.