Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2015. There are 183 days left in the year. This is

Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2015. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1863: The pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, begins in Pennsylvania.

1867: Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act takes effect.

1946: The United States explodes a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

1980: “O Canada” is proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.

The Confederate flag is removed from atop South Carolina’s Statehouse (in a compromise, another Confederate flag was raised on the Statehouse grounds in front of a soldier’s monument).

Actor Walter Matthau dies in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 79.

2004: Actor Marlon Brando dies in Los Angeles at age 80.

2004: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announces her retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court (she was succeeded by Samuel Alito).

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro ramps up his campaign for a state office tower in Youngstown, noting that Columbus has two; Toledo, Cleveland and Akron each has one, and Cincinnati is in line to get one.

Harvey Childs, president of Bail Bond USA of Greenville, Pa., which has 600 offices in 42 states, says he will provide free bail for anyone arrested or beating up a flag-burner.

Laura Cullumbine, a senior at Niles McKinley High School, earns a perfect score and a gold medal in the National Latin Exam, putting her in the top 1 percent of 71,457 students from around the world who took the test. Niles sophomore Michelle Plizga also earned a gold medal, and nine other students of Latin teacher Thomas Karovic won silver medals.

1975: A two-alarm fire of undetermined origin causes $200,000 damage to the former Mahoning Plumbing Supply Co. warehouse at Shehy and Fruit streets.

U.S. Rep. Charles W. Whalen, a Dayton-area Republican visiting Cuba, says it appears Cuba wants to normalize relations with the U.S. and suggests that talks could begin before the trade embargo is lifted.

Coming to the Kenley Players in Warren, Mac-Lean Stevenson, star of TV’s “M*A*S*H,” in “Under the Yum Yum Tree.” Tickets are $2.95 to $4.25.

1965: Thirty marked police cars, an unknown number of unmarked cars and aircraft will join in a July Fourth weekend effort to cut down on highway deaths.

First Christian Church of Columbiana will hold open air services each Sunday during July in Firestone Park.

Members of Girard Girl Scout Troop 618 pose with U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan on the Capitol steps during their automobile tour of Washington, D.C., Gettysburg, Pa., and Fredericksburg, Md.

1940: Operation of steel fabricators and machine shops in the Youngstown district are averaging 20 to 35 percent higher during the first six months of 1940, compared with the same period a year earlier.

Hyman Greenblatt of 1723 Ford Ave., a Youngs-town grocer, is elected state commander of the Ohio Jewish War Veterans during their two-day convention in Youngstown.

Lucretia Manciulea, 47, of Salem, known throughout Roumania as the “Heroine of the Olt” for her role in guiding the Roumanian army across the Olt River to face the advancing Hungarians on Sept. 2, 1916, is close to earning U.S. citizenship.