YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, July 20, the 201st day of 2015. There are 164 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1861: The Congress of the Confederate States convenes in Richmond, Va.

1871: British Columbia enters Confederation as a Canadian province.

1917: The World War I draft lottery goes into operation.

1923: Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa is assassinated by gunmen in Parral.

1944: An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb fails as the explosion only wounds the Nazi leader.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for a fourth term of office at the Democratic convention in Chicago.

1954: The Geneva Accords divide Vietnam into northern and southern entities.

1965: The Bob Dylan single “Like a Rolling Stone” is released by Columbia Records.

1968: The first International Special Olympics Summer Games, organized by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, takes place at Soldier Field in Chicago.

1969: Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon after reaching the surface in their Apollo 11 lunar module.

1976: America’s Viking 1 robot spacecraft makes a successful, first landing on Mars.

2012: A gunman opens fire inside a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colo., during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 12 people. (Defendant James Eagen Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to more than 160 counts of murder and attempted murder. A jury found him guilty last week.)

2014: Pro-Moscow rebels pile nearly 200 bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 into four refrigerated boxcars in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene move big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders who say the rebels are tampering with the site.

Rory McIlroy completes a wire-to-wire victory in the British Open to capture the third leg of the career Grand Slam, closing with a 1-under 71 for a two-shot victory over Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Trumbull County has five grant projects and 16 loan projects on the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s updated priority list of sewer projects, the highest number among area counties.

Organizers of a drive to dissolve the Mill Creek Park Metropolitan Park District have only 6,000 of the 22,5000 signatures they need to put an issue on the November ballot.

The rain-plagued 1990 Trumbull County Fair went an estimated $40,000 in debt, but fair board directors remain upbeat about next year’s event.

1975: Raymond Rummell, 22, of Salem is killed when a tractor he was operating at the home of his foster parents in Lisbon overturned.

Some 150 jugglers, including several from well-known circuses, will be in Youngstown between July 1 and Aug. 3 for the International Jugglers’ Association annual convention at the downtown YMCA.

A crowd of 4,500, most wearing combinations of red, black and green, the African liberation colors, line the route to Federal Plaza for the African Cultural Weekend parade.

1965: John A. Saunders, president of General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, recommends a 2-for-1 split of the company’s 592,323 outstanding shares.

A monthlong strike is settled by Natural Gas Workers Local 555 against East Ohio Gas. Co. that idled 2,400 employees in 16 Northeast Ohio counties.

Vandals get into a manhole and open a valve that drains Pemberton Pool. Edward A. Finamore, park superintendent, says the pool was drained to the halfway mark and will be closed for a day to allow it to be refilled.

1940: John R. Ellliott, manager of the Youngstown airport, and H. Ross Packard, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, plan to ask the Civil Aeronautics Bureau to move a weather reporting station from Champion to the airport in Vienna.

Ann Fascewsky, 20, of Sharon is killed when she and three companions were trying to push a stalled car on Hubbard-Youngstown Road a mile north of Youngstown. A second car came around the curve and struck Fascewsky.

Seventeen fliers pass tests given at the New Castle airport by Nelson Brown, Civil Aeronautics Authority inspector. Most receive commercial- transport licenses, and one gets a flight instructors rating.