YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, July 19, the 200th day of 2015. There are 165 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1553: King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary is proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey is deposed.

1848: A pioneer women’s- rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

1903: Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.

1944: The Democratic National Convention convenes in Chicago with the renomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a certainty.

1965: The first president of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, dies in Honolulu.

1975: The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separate.

1979: The Nicaraguan capital of Managua falls to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.

1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics begins, minus dozens of nations that are boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1984: U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York wins the Democratic nomination for vice president by acclamation at the party’s convention in San Francisco.

1985: Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire is chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in January 1986.)

1989: One hundred and eleven people are killed when United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which suffers the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashes while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 others survive.

1990: President George H.W. Bush joins former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace (since redesignated the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) in Yorba Linda, Calif.

2005: President George W. Bush announces his choice of federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. (Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in September 2005; Samuel Alito followed O’Connor.)

2010: The Agriculture Department pressures Shirley Sherrod, an administrator in Georgia, to resign after a conservative website posts video it claims showed her making racist remarks. (After reviewing the entire video, the White House ended up apologizing to Sherrod.)

A train slams into another at a station north of Calcutta, India, killing at least 63 people.

Australian David Warren, who’d invented the “black box” flight data recorder, dies in Melbourne at age 85.

2014: A New York City police officer involved in the arrest of Eric Garner, who died in custody two days earlier after being placed in an apparent chokehold, is stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty.

Actor James Garner, 86, dies in Los Angeles.

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1990: Thirty-seven families living near Squaw Creek Country Club have opened their homes for the week to 51 of the 144 professional golfers competing in the Phar-Mor LPGA Classic.

An alleged member of the notorious gang The Bloods who was wanted in Los Angeles on charges involving theft, drugs, a shooting and conspiracy to commit perjury is arrested by Austintown police but is released by a judge after 72 hours pass without Los Angeles authorities responding to a request for them to declare their intention to extradite the fugitive.

U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel sentences baseball great Pete Rose to five months in a federal prison on two counts of failing to report $354,968 in income on his tax forms. Rose says he’s getting treatment for a gambling problem.

1975: With about 7,000 production workers at the Lordstown General Motors complex idled by a strike, talks are underway to settle the dispute before it idles another 2,500 to 3,000 workers and affects GM model plans.

Robert A. Hovis, 23, of Lake Milton, an employee of the Greyhound Food Management Co. of Columbus, is killed when a tire he was working on explodes in a storage area at the GM assembly plant in Lordstown.

Youngstown will receive a $14,500 Ohio EPA grant for an evaluation survey for the proposed $700,000 Poland Avenue interceptor sewer that would serve an area that dumps 200,0000 gallons of raw sewage a day into the Mahoning River.

1965: State Sen. Thomas P. Gilmartin of Youngs-town calls on Gov. James A. Rhodes to urge passage of a bill extending school bus transportation to private and parochial pupils.

Mrs. Edith Ramage, an active civic leader and wife of William H. Ramage, chairman of the board of Valley Mould & Iron Corp., dies of a heart ailment.

1940: From the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, The Youngstown Vindicator’s Clingan Jackson reports that the Ohio delegation waited until Henry A. Wallace had enough votes to win the vice presidential nomination, then gave him all 52 of its votes.

The Youngstown Players open their drive for a new playhouse at a picnic supper at Hugh Bonnell’s Logan Road farm.

Dr. Robert D. Gibson, one of the first eye, ear, nose and throat specialists in Ohio, dies at his residence, 310 Wick Ave., a showplace of the city for many years. He was 84.