Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, July 24, the 206th day of 2012. There are 160 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1847: Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrive in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.

1911: Yale University history professor Hiram Bingham III finds the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu, in Peru.

1937: Alabama drops charges against four of the nine young black men accused of raping two white women in the “Scottsboro Case.”

1952: President Harry S. Truman announces a settlement in a 53-day steel strike.

1959: During a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engages in his famous “Kitchen Debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splash down safely in the Pacific.

1974: The Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Richard Nixon has to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.

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1987: The Youngstown metropolitan area lost and estimated 3,600 people in 1986, according to the Census Bureau.

General Motors reports second quarter earnings of $977 million; Ford profits are $1.5 billion.

1972: Alan Rovder, 13, coasts to victory at the 12th annual Soap Box Derby in Youngstown and will race in Akron Aug. 26.

Two Youngstown State University students and an Erie, Pa., diving equipment retailer on a scuba diving trip to Canada are in Toronto General Hospital being treated for the bends after one student lost consciousness during a dive in Lake Huron and all had to resurface quickly from a depth of 120 feet. The students are Barry Rottenberg, 21, of Canfield and Ronald Knight, 25, of New Waterford.

1962: William Lyden Jr., president of the Youngstown Area Development Foundation, appeals to all Youngstowners for “support, ideas and criticism” in the foundation’s campaign to encourage existing industry and develop new industry.

A 13-year-old Warren boy, James Will, is fatally injured when he falls from the handlebars of a bicycle under a steel-laden semi-trailer in W. Market Street in Warren.

1937: Henry C. Brandmiller, chairman of Mahoning County commissioners, says commissioners will discuss smoke problems at the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium that are attributed to a short smokestack.

Atty. John R. Hooker is named a part-time prosecutor at a salary of $150 a month to help Prosecutor William E. Ambrose to address “an unusual prevalence of crime.” Ambrose has four other assistants.