YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, July 7, the 188th day of 2015. There are 177 days left in the year.

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1865: Four people are hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government.

1898: The United States annexes Hawaii.

2005: Suicide terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus kill 52 victims and four bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.

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1990: With a 123-107 victory over the Illinois Express, the World Basketball League defending champions, the Youngstown Pride, sets a record of 33 consecutive home victories, the most by a professional sports franchise.

Brad Jones, a 16-year-old Niles football player, rushes toward a gun-wielding robber who was striking 80-year-old Anthony Bellish through the window of Bellish’s car in a Niles parking lot, and after a scuffle, the would-be robber flees. Jones said he was angry because the victim and his wife, Catherine, reminded the boy of his grandparents.

United Engineering and Foundry Co. of Youngs-town delivers a Kool-Flo electric arc furnace roof to Quanex Corp.’s MacSteel Division in Jackson, Mich. The water-cooled roof helps retain an insulating layer of slag that keeps the furnace’s temperature high.

1975: Dr. Ellen Wood Hall, assistant professor of French at Westminster College, is named assistant dean of the college, succeeding Dr. Kenneth M. Long.

U.S. District Judge Leroy Contie Jr. denies a motion by the NAACP to bar the sale of Bancroft School until after a suit seeking desegregation of Youngstown schools is settled.

A 15-year-old Ravenna youth on a weekend pass from the Portage-Geauga County Juvenile Center is being held in the shooting death of Judy Riggenbach, an 18-year-old Ravenna nurse’s aide. The youth apparently abducted the woman and was arrested driving her car after she had been reported missing.

1965: Gov. James Rhodes proposes an international highway across Lake Erie connecting Ohio and Canada.

Atty. Benjamin F. Roth, past president of the Mahoning County Bar Association, is elected to the unexpired term of George W. Brown on the Youngstown Board of Education.

The Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium, one of the few institutions of its kind to consistently operate in the black, has closed three of its six wings, but may reopen some to take in as many as 100 indigent patients suffering with other ailments who are a strain on Youngstown’s three general hospitals.

1940: More than 11,000 Mahoning County women and girls, many members of women’s groups at churches and schools, are contributing to the war relief effort in Europe by knitting sweaters, sewing garments and making surgical dressings.

Donald Van Tassal, a flying instructor at the Bernard Airport, escapes injury when a new light sport plane he was flying nosed over in a wheat field east of the airport.

Joe Louis, who successfully defended his world heavyweight championship for the 11th time, will referee several bouts during the outdoor fight show at Idora Park on July 15.