YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2015. There are 162 days left in the year.

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1587: An English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances is established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

1796: Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater.

1963: Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in the first round of their rematch in Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight title.

1995: Susan Smith is convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She later was sentenced to life in prison, and will not be eligible for parole until 2024.)

2011: Anders Breivik massacres 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II.

2014: A Hamas rocket explodes near Israel’s main airport, prompting a ban on flights from the U.S. and many from Europe and Canada.

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1990: Ohio spends about $1.1 million a year in rent for office and other space in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties for agencies, and much of that money goes to the area’s rich and famous, an analysis of state records shows. Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro, who wants the state to build an office tower in the city, says the situation reflects a “political system that sells its soul.”

Federal railroad officials are predicting a new era in ground transportation where trains zip over a magnetic field at 300 mph and says it could be reality by the end of the 1990s.

Seventy-seven women from age 27 through 80 attend Cooperative Extension Service’s three-day “Homemakers Camp” at 4-H Camp Whitewood in Ashtabula County. There’s swimming, boating, water-exercise class, crafts and singing around the campfire.

1975: The Youngstown Board of Education votes to submit three proposals to the state board of education that could yield more than $1.6 million in state and federal aid, including $795,000 for reading and mathematics programs.

Ohio EPA and Young-stown officials will meet to plan implementation of the cleanup of the Mahoning River.

1965: B&I Management Inc. announces plans to build two apartment projects worth $10 million in the Valley: Central Park West in Austintown Township and Arlington Arms in Niles.

About 3,500 residents turn out for a summer band concert in Wick Park featuring local musicians.

Six-year-old Richard Thompson is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a deep slash of his head inflicted by a watermelon peddler who believed the boy tried to take a watermelon from his truck.

1940: The bodies of a small girl still clutching a doll and a woman believed to be her mother are found in the Mahoning River under the Marshall Street Bridge.

Beaver Township Fire Chief Earl Brubaker and Fireman Homer McCormick are killed instantly, and five other volunteer firemen are injured when their speeding firetruck careens off a curve and rolls more than 2 miles south of North Lima.

A crowd estimated at between 10,000 and 12,000 people jam Idora Park for the annual picnic of the Jewish Community Center.