YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, July 23, the 204th day of 2015. There are 161 days left in the year.

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1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.

1914: Austria-Hungary presents a list of demands to Serbia after the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum led to the outbreak of World War I.

1945: French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the pro-Axis Vichy government during World War II, goes on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison. On this date in 1951, Petain died in prison.)

1967: A week of deadly race-related rioting that would claim 43 lives erupts in Detroit.

1982: Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, are killed when a helicopter crashes on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter.)

1984: Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign her title, after nude photographs of her taken in 1982 are published in Penthouse magazine.

1985: Commodore International Ltd. unveils its Amiga 1000 personal computer during a press event at New York’s Lincoln Center.

Bandleader Kay Kyser, 80, known for his “Kollege of Musical Knowledge,” dies in Chapel Hill, N.C.

1990: President George H.W. Bush announces his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed the retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1997: The search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, an apparent suicide.

2011: Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

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1990: Small tornadoes are reported near Sharon and New Castle, Pa., and severe weather causes a suspension in play at the Squaw Creek Country Club on what was to be the final day of the Phar-Mor LPGA tournament.

General Motors Corp. will delay 1991 van production for two weeks until Aug. 13 at its Lordstown complex to compensate for slow sales.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Peter C. Economus rejects a claim by former Poland Councilman Nevin Seifert that Councilman Joseph S. Belichick was elected through improperly counted write-in ballots.

1975: Some 600 young baseball players from Little League, Pony League and Ponytail League teams have been ordered to vacate their playing fields off South Schenley Avenue within 30 days because of complaints filed against them by neighboring small businesses.

A diorama created by Otto Epping of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh showing a covey of quail is dedicated at the Ford Nature Education Center in Mill Creek Park as a memorial to Stephen Bacon Jr.

William Yeo III of Sewickley, Pa., a Youngstown native and former Greenville, Pa., resident, is nominated by President Gerald R. Ford as under secretary in the U.S. Treasury Department.

1965: Jack Hutch’s 2-year-old colt, “Larry Stolle,” named for The Vindicator’s sports editor, places third at Randall Park in only his second start.

Dr. Thomas B. Wagner of Poland is elected president of the Mahoning Valley Podiatry Society.

Lisbon postmaster Howard Hochmann says that after 63 years doing business at North Park Avenue, the post office is moving to a new building on West Lincoln Way.

Police are looking for the owner of a car that smashed into The Vindicator building at 4:30 a.m., damaging stone work at the southeast corner of the building.

1940: In the first day of a survey by the Youngstown Automobile Club, Youngstowners favor by a margin of 7 to 1 the arresting of pedestrians who violate traffic laws.

Two bodies found in the Mahoning River are identified as Mrs. Agnes Leombruno, 33, of Struthers and her daughter, Theresa, 2. Coroner David Hauser rules the woman’s death a suicide.

A heat wave and free admission drives 900 youngsters to the city’s North Side swimming pool.