YEARS AGO
YEARS AGO
Today is Thursday, July 16, the 197th day of 2015. There are 168 days left in the year.
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1790: A site along the Potomac River is designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area becomes Washington, D.C.
1945: The United States explodes its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M. 1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when their single-engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, plunges into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
2014: The U.S. and the European Union impose new economic sanctions on Russia; in his announcement, President Barack Obama says, “What we are expecting is that the Russian leadership will see once again that its actions in Ukraine have consequences.”
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1990: The Columbus Dispatch reports that in the first 10 years of the Ohio Lottery’s Pick Three game, 036 has come up 10 times, defying the odds. Forty-eight three-digit combinations have yet to be drawn.
Rain fell all six days of the Trumbull County Fair, cutting attendance to 34,000, about half of what had been expected.
A Canadian daredevil, Dave Munday, fails in his attempt to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel when his 650-pound padded vessel becomes snagged on the brink of the Horseshoe Falls because water had been diverted to Ontario Hydro’s power plant, reducing the flow over the falls.
1975: Two young men are held by nurses until the police arrive to arrest them for taking drugs from a tray in a recovery room at St. Elizabeth Hospital.
C. William O’Neill, chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, says lawyers seeking jury trials as a delaying tactic for clients charged with drunken driving are responsible for serious delays in justice at the municipal court level.
Joe Nelson is the overall winner of the Jaycee Junior Golf Tournament at Stambaugh Golf Course, shooting a par 72. Darryl Spelich was the 13-15 winner and Joe Santagata was the runner-up. Don Kniska was the runner-up to Nelson in the 16-18 group.
1965: An enthusiastic crowd of 1,000 spectators greets Arthur Godfrey, TV-radio star, as he arrives at Youngstown Municipal Airport in his own Grumman Gulfstream jet for a week’s engagement at the Kenley Players in Warren. He and Maureen O’Sullivan will star in “Never Too Late.”
Hilda Davis, 64, of 4114 Hilda Ave., is released from the hospital and back home a day after two thugs forced their way into her home, struck and bound her and stole more than $1,000.
The Ohio Chair Division of Corry Jamestown Corp. will move from North Meridian Road to the former Saramar Aluminum Co. plant at 4021 Mahoning Ave. in Austintown, clearing the way for expansion.
1940: The Anna Furnace of Struthers Iron & Steel Co. makes its first iron after several months of idleness. Between 200 and 300 men are called back to work.
Architect Charles Owsley says bids are being requested for construction of Buechner Hall on Bryson Street north of Youngstown College. The cost is estimated at $200,000. Miss Lucy Buechner provided for construction of a home for working girls in her will 13 years earlier.
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, EleanorRoosevelt asks the Democratic platform committee to reject a proposed plank endorsing an “equal rights” for women constitutional amendment, saying the amendment would create a hardship for women in the industrial workforce at this time.