YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, July 25, the 206th day of 2015. There are 159 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1909: French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to fly an airplane across the English Channel, traveling from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.

1943: Benito Mussolini is dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III and placed under arrest.

1956: The Italian liner Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and begins sinking; at least 51 people were killed.

1985: A spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms that the actor, hospitalized in Paris, is suffering from AIDS. (Hudson died in October 1985.)

2000: New York-bound Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.

2010: The online whistleblower Wikileaks posts some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records that amount to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war.

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1990: Arbitron’s radio ratings service says Radio 57 (WKBN-AM), which has a news/talk format, has dethroned seven-year Youngstown area ratings champion Hot-FM 101 in the spring 1990 ratings.

About a dozen members of the 83-member Warren Police Department, an unusually high number, have asked city Personnel Supervisor Gary Cicero to calculate their retirement pay.

Mahoning County officials say they would not be legally permitted to operate Mill Creek Park if a drive to dissolve the park district is successful, and state officials say they are not interested in adding the park to the state system.

1975: Small funnel clouds strike Fowler and Hartford townships in Trumbull County, uprooting trees, snapping utility poles and causing other damage.

An allergy clinic for children under 15 years old is established at Tod Babies and Children’s Hospital.

Playing at the Idora Park Ballroom is the Glenn Miller Orchestra, under the direction of Jimmy Henderson.

1965: Dr. Edward W. Posey of Minneapolis, former Youngstowner, is named psychiatrist-director of the Veterans Administration Day Hospital in Minneapolis.

Larry Lyons, 13, of New Castle, Pa., is in satisfactory condition in Jameson Memorial Hospital after being rescued from drowning at a nearby resort lake.

Nearly 800 troops take part in a Civil War re-enactment at the Columbiana County Fairgrounds to mark the end of Lisbon’s weeklong Railroad Centennial celebration.

1940: Louise Fordyce, Youngstown Country Club star, wins her fourth-consecutive Youngstown District Women’s Golf Championship, defeating Mrs. Emma Brown Wolff of the Hubbard Country Club.

Hubbard religious leaders are pleased with the success of religious-education courses in the public junior high school after a two-year trial of the courses. Youngstown religious leaders hope to introduce a religious course for city students.

A proposed compulsory military-service bill would result in drafting 1,745 men between age 21 and 31 from the Youngstown district, which includes Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Mercer and Lawrence counties.