Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2014. There are 162 days left in the year.

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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.”

1933: American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world as he returns to New York’s Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for 7 days, 183/4 hours.

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

1943: U.S. forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.

1944: The Bretton Woods Monetary Conference concludes in New Hampshire with an agreement to establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1946: Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.

1963: Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in the first round of their rematch in Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight title.

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

1983: Samantha Smith and her parents return home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.

2011: Anders Breivik massacres 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II.

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1989: The National Wea-ther Service says a storm that swept through Youngstown did not spawn any tornadoes, but residents of an East Side neighborhood disagree.

The Mahoning Women’s Center at 4025 Market St. is open, with pro-choice demonstrators showing up to counter anti-abortion protesters and to escort women arriving at the center.

Elsi Dursi, executive director of Protestant Family Services, is named executive director of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches.

1974: Nearly 8,800 members of Local 1112, United Auto Workers of America, at the General Motors plant at Lordstown begin registering for strike benefits. Unmarried members will receive $30 a week; married, $40. That’s far below the basic pay rate at the plant of $5.40 an hour.

Robert L. Wagner, 47, of Youngstown is killed when the Tip Top bakery truck he was driving collided with an Erie-Lackawanna train on Hayes-Orangeville Road in Trumbull County.

Galie E. Gates, 29, of Kinsman is pronounced dead at St. Joseph Hospital, Warren, after a two- motorcycle crash during a marathon race at Nelson Ledges Raceway.

1964: Republic Steel Corp. reports first-half net income of $33.5 million, up 7.8 percent over 1963.

A hit-and-run driver plows into Progressive Photo Supply Co. at 3491 Belmont Ave., causing $5,000 to $10,000 in damage to the building and merchandise. Police are seeking a light green 1959 Chrysler.

Thirteen teenage boys arrested for creating a disturbance in the Harding School parking lot are placed on probation by Juvenile Court Probation Officer James Duncan.

1939: A substantial boost in the Youngstown area steel business is reflected in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s second-quarter net profits of $329,086.

The Rev. Gerould Goldner of Cleveland has been taken captive by an Arab band in Palestine. His wife is the former Ruth Ann Drake of Niles.

Congressman C. Arthur Anderson, who limps from injuries received in a gunbattle with gangsters when he was a county prosecutor in Missouri, speaks at the United Labor Congress picnic at Idora Park.