Years Ago

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Today is Saturday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2015. There are 173 days left in the year.

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1767: John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, is born in Braintree, Mass.

1798: The U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.

1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J.

1864: Confederate forces led by Lt. Gen. Jubal Early begin an abortive invasion of Washington D.C., turning back the next day.

1915: The Chicago Sunday Tribune runs an article titled, “Blues Is Jazz and Jazz Is Blues.” (It’s believed to be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, uses of the word “jazz” as a musical term by a newspaper.)

1937: American composer and pianist George Gershwin dies at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38.

1955: The U.S. Air Force Academy swears in its first class of cadets at its temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado.

1960: The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.

1989: Actor and director Laurence Olivier dies in Steyning, West Sussex, England, at age 82.

1995: The U.N.-designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina falls to Bosnian Serb forces, who then carry out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

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1990: Julius Yuhasz Jr., a Craig Beach resident, says petitions aimed at dissolution of the village will be circulated unless Mayor Nick Yacavone and Councilwoman Beverly Graham don’t resign. Yuhasz contends the mayor and some council members ignored the wishes of the public in voting to purchase 34 acres off Grandview Avenue for a park.

Robert Douglas, director of the Mahoning County Department of Human Services, says county Auditor George Tablack lacks the authority to conduct a performance audit of Douglas’ department.

About 100 people attend an informational meeting in Vernon Township and ask the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency about contaminated soil to be stored at General Aggregates Inc. on Kinsman-Orangeville Road.

1975: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will shut down its three open hearths and its blooming mill at the Campbell Works for two weeks, resulting in the layoff of 500 workers.

During a meeting in Washington, D.C., Youngstown’s Republican mayor, Jack C. Hunter, asks what he should tell his unemployed constituents when they question him about President Gerald Ford’s opposition to a $2 billion antirecession bill to help cities and states with high unemployment.

The Youngstown District Amateur Invitational Golf Association resumes competition with 190 competing at the Candywood course near Warren.

1965: Mayor Anthony B. Flask has kept the total number of Youngstown municipal employees slightly under those employed when he took office, but 134 out of the 1,447 on the payroll have not taken civil-service exams for the posts they hold.

A modern 92-unit, eight-story apartment building, costing $1.6 million, to be built by Fred Shutrump Jr. at Rayen Avenue and Champion Street, will feature a roof-top terrace, sun deck, swimming pool and underground parking.

Joyce Galida, a 15-year-old from Campbell Memorial High School, represents Youngstown in the “Miss Sixteen” contest sponsored by Sixteen magazine.

James Connolly, a teacher at Bennett School, is directing a Community Reading Council program for 850 children who have fallen at least a year behind grade level entering the fourth, fifth or sixth grades.

1940: Dr. Richard V. Clifford, who resigned as Girard health commissioner to take a post-graduate course in surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, is appointed to the U.S. Navy surgical staff at Philadelphia Naval Hospital.

The Mahoning Red Cross goes over the top in its campaign for $80,000 in European war relief, exceeding the goal by $621.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown is one of 64 Democratic members of the House who sign a statement demanding the renomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a third term.