Wednesday, July 15, 2015
YEARS AGO
Today is Wednesday, July 15, the 196th day of 2015. There are 169 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1971: President Richard Nixon delivers a televised address in which he announces that he has accepted an invitation to visit the People’s Republic of China.
1799: French soldiers in Egypt discover the Rosetta Stone, which proves instrumental in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
1834: The Spanish Inquisition is abolished more than 31/2 centuries after its creation.
1932: President Herbert Hoover announces he is slashing his own salary by 20 percent, from $75,000 to $60,000 a year; he also is cutting Cabinet members’ salaries by 15 percent, from $15,000 to $12,750 a year.
1948: President Harry S. Truman is nominated for another term at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
1964: Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona is nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
1985: A shockingly gaunt Rock Hudson appears at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it later was revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).
1992: Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton is nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in New York.
2005: A federal appeals court rules that a Guantanamo detainee who once was Osama bin Laden’s driver could be tried by a military tribunal. (However, the Supreme Court struck down the tribunals in June 2006, saying they violated U.S. and international law. Salim Ahmed Hamdan later was convicted by a military court of material support for terrorism and sentenced to 51/2 years in prison, but his conviction was tossed out by a federal appeals court; Hamdan was given credit for time served and freed.)
2010: After 85 days, BP stops the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico using a 75-ton cap lowered onto the well earlier in the week.
VINDICATOR FILES
1990: The trucking industry is driving a minor employment boom in the Mahoning Valley, says Don Curry, labor market analyst for the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services.
John Moliterno, president of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, says the coming Phar-Mor LPGA golf tournament at Squaw Creek Country Club will give Youngstown positive national exposure.
Kathy Wess, a 17-year-old senior at Hubbard High School, will spend a week in the Soviet Union participating in a space-study program.
1975: Warren could have 11-hour bus service Monday through Saturday from the Western Reserve Transit Authority if the city contracts for three buses assigned to the city. The service could cost Warren between $22,000 and $65,000 yearly.
The Idora Park manager and a special-duty policeman fire a total of nine shots during a chase after three youths stole $40 from a ticket booth at the amusement park. One juvenile was captured by police.
Youngstown firefighter Ronald Barber, 28, is treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for a knee injury suffered when a section of the floor collapsed during a fire in a vacant building at 205 Madison Ave.
1965: Members of Columbiana and Fairfield Township Historical Society are greeted by Catherine Firestone Ake of Akron, when they tour the newly restored Harvey S. Firestone homestead on Route 14. She supervised the restoration by the Firestone family.
Sisters Betty Gallagher, 23, and Heather Gallagher, 16, are killed when their car is hit broadside by a second car at Rush Boulevard and East Dewey Avenue in the city.
Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who died in London, visited Youngstown three times, twice as a Democratic presidential candidate and the third time to attend the marriage of a longtime friend, Edison Dick and Sally Romaine Williams.
1940: Reporting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, The Vindicator’s Clingan Jackson writes that all but a few of the people he’s talked to are convinced Franklin D. Roosevelt will be nominated for a third term.
Youngstown police close the North Side Pool for the second time in two weeks over fears of trouble after a group of Negro bathers got into the pool.
Louise Fordyce, four-time champion of Ohio, and Albert Alcroft, pro at the Youngstown Country Club, lose an exhibition match to raise funds for Red Cross war relief to Mrs. Thomas Nolan of New Castle, Western Pennsylvania champion, and Tony Joy, pro at Squaw Creek Country Club.