Today is Monday, July 13, the 194th day of 2015. There are 171 days left in the year.

July 13, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1863: Deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupts in New York City. (The insurrection was put down three days later.)

1923: A sign consisting of 50-foot-tall letters spelling out “HOLLYWOODLAND” is dedicated in the Hollywood Hills to promote a subdivision (the last four letters were removed in 1949).

1939: Frank Sinatra makes his first commercial recording, “From the Bottom of My Heart” and “Melancholy Mood,” with Harry James and his Orchestra for the Brunswick label.

1960: John F. Kennedy wins the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot at his party’s convention in Los Angeles.

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Thurgood Marshall to be U.S. solicitor general; Marshall becomes the first black jurist appointed to the post. (Two years later, Johnson nominated Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court.)

1978: Lee Iacocca is fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.

1985: “Live Aid,” an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, takes place to raise money for Africa’s starving people.

2005: A suicide car bomb explodes next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys in Iraq, killing more than two dozen people, including 18 children and teenagers and an American soldier.

2010: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies in Tampa, Fla., nine days after turning 80.

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1990: Lawrence County Sheriff Robert Clark reluctantly accepts the temporary job of warden of the county jail until a new warden can be hired to replace Stephen Kaften, who resigned to take a job in Georgia.

Eighty Russian dancers from the Vaganova Academy arrive at the Park Hotel in Warren, which is the fifth stop on a six-city tour of Ohio by students at Vaganova, which trains dancers for the Kirov Ballet.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro praises U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. for successfully inserting two earmarks in the $30 billion transportation bill, one for $3 million for the Hubbard Expressway and one for $2 million for access ramps to I-680 in the Campbell area.

1975: The Youngstown Board of Trade launches a campaign to keep the Board of Elections downtown and to encourage other government and business offices to move downtown.

Children from various Warren playgrounds are getting riverboat rides on the Mahoning River on a pontoon boat christened “The Spirit of ’76” as part of the summer recreation program sponsored by the Warren City School District.

A proposed six-diamond, 40-acre baseball complex between Indianola Road and Afton Avenue in Boardman could accommodate 83 teams each week, and the prospect of the resultant traffic and litter has many in the neighborhood opposing the project.

1965: Prospects for renaming Mosquito Creek Reservoir for President McKinley appear dim after U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown suggests renaming it Roosevelt Reservoir, which would honor two presidents.

The D.J.’s capture the Springfield Township Little League championship for the second year, defeating Village Pharmacy 8-4. Kevin Barrett, David Burke and Dennis Bullen all had doubles.

The Ohio Board of Education adopts new standards aimed at forcing the consolidation of small school districts into more-efficient large ones. As many as half of the state’s districts could be eliminated.

1940: A delegation of 25 people will represent Youngstown’s 19th Congressional District when the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago. Virtually all expect the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a third term.

The first of the summer’s outdoor vesper services is held at the Canfield Fairgrounds under the auspices of the Federated Churches and the Youngstown Ministerial Association. The Rev. Howard D. Talbott of First Presbyterian Church officiates.

Civic organizations will join with the Warren Junior Chamber of Commerce to bolster enthusiasm for Warren’s Redskins baseball team, which is playing in the Penn State League.