YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, July 10, the 191st day of 2015. There are 174 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1509: Theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, is born in Noyon, Picardy, France.

1890: Wyoming becomes the 44th state.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urged its ratification. (However, the Senate rejected it.)

1925: Jury selection takes place in Dayton, Tenn., in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)

1929: American paper currency is reduced in size as the government begins issuing bills that are approximately 25 percent smaller.

1940: During World War II, the Battle of Britain begins as the Luftwaffe starts attacking southern England. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.)

1943: During World War II, U.S. and British forces invade Sicily.

1951: Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War begin at Kaesong.

1962: AT&T’s Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of relaying television signals and telephone calls, is launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral.

1973: The Bahamas becomes fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.

1985: The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist is killed.

Bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. says it will resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke.

1991: Boris N. Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

1999: The United States women’s soccer team wins the World Cup, beating China 5-4 on penalty kicks after 120 minutes of scoreless play at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

2005: A search-and-rescue team finds the body of a missing U.S. commando in eastern Afghanistan, bringing an end to the desperate search for the last member of an ill-fated, four-man special forces unit that had disappeared the previous month.

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1990: Kevin Tarpley, 27, will resign as executive director of the Youngstown Youth Council to work for the YouthBuild national program in Boston.

An Israeli company succeeds in a federal court suit to strip a $3 million contract for tank periscopes from Miller-Hozworth, a Salem company that employs 60 people.

The Rev. Lonnie Simon says the Interracial Clergy Dialogue will ask City Council to place a referendum on the November ballot that would create a citizens police-review board.

1975: A fire of suspicious origin destroys the Exit Bar at 114 S. Bridge St., Struthers.

The refurbished fountain featuring a new cast-aluminum swan in Courthouse Park in Warren is dedicated. The Trumbull County Bicentennial Commission and Warren Junior Women’s League cooperated in the refurbishing.

Youngstown area banks are receiving their first shipments of bicentennial half-dollars that have John F. Kennedy on one side and Independence Hall and the dates 1776-1976 on the other. Tellers report the coins are going fast.

1965: Canfield Fair Director George Bishop dedicates Gate 5 to the Canfield Fairgrounds as the E.R. Ziegler Memorial Gate in recognition of Ziegler, who served as fair secretary for 40 years.

On display at Market Motor Dodge, 3939 Market St., and at Al Wagner’s Motors, 3121 Market St., is Chrysler’s experimental turbine car.

Stink bombs that smelled like natural gas are placed near air vents at an Austintown Plaza store and the W.T. Grant Co. store in the Boardman Plaza and cause the evacuation of both stores. Five people go to the hospital for checkups.

1940: Ray Ackworth of Woodworth, a disgruntled former employee of Moe Annenberg’s horse-race news service that served Youngstown area bookies for several years, is asking for a federal investigation of horse- race betting and graft in Youngstown.

Dr. William M. Skipp of Youngstown, president of the Ohio State Medical Association, will survey 9,000 Ohio physicians to discover the military experience and present military affiliations of each, to determine which would be best qualified to serve in a possible national emergency.

Workers are putting finishing touches on Sts. Peter and Paul’s $35,000 Byzantine style church at Russell and N. Belle Vista avenues.