YEARS AGO
YEARS AGO
Today is Tuesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2015. There are 156 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1540: King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, is executed, the same day Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
1794: Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, is sent to the guillotine.
1821: Peru declares its independence from Spain.
1914: World War I begins as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
1945: A U.S. Army bomber crashes into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
1959: In preparation for statehood, Hawaiians vote to send the first Chinese-American, Republican Hiram L. Fong, to the U.S. Senate and the first Japanese-American, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he is increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost immediately.”
1976: An earthquake devastates northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate.
1984: The Los Angeles Summer Olympics opens.
1995: A jury in Union, S.C., rejects the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her to life in prison for drowning her two young sons (Smith will be eligible for parole in 2024).
2010: U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton puts most of Arizona’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law on hold just hours before it is to take effect.
2014: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Israelis to be ready for a “prolonged” conflict with Hamas in Gaza as both sides hold out for bigger gains, and a cease-fire in the three-week conflict remains elusive.
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1990: Mill Creek Park officials are mounting a campaign to counter a petition drive aimed at putting an issue on the November ballot that would dissolve the countywide park district and eliminate its levy.
Barbara Hafer, a pro-choice Republican challenging Pennsylvania’s incumbent Democratic Gov. Robert Casey, who opposes abortion, tells 80 guests at a Republican luncheon at Troggio’s Restaurant in New Castle that abortion isn’t the only issue in the campaign.
A 17-year-old Lisbon boy is charged with causing $100,000 in damage to First Presbyterian Church,111 E. Chestnut St. in Lisbon.
1975: A panel of three federal judges upholds the constitutionality of corporal punishment in the Youngstown City School District, rejecting a suit filed in October 1973 by Lincoln School students.
James M. McAllister, a former Niles resident who delivered The Vindicator in the 1920s, is the new president of Parade magazine, which is featured in 110 newspapers and has a circulation of 19.5 million.
Former Miami Dolphin receiver Paul Warfield, a Warren native, makes two touchdown passes for the Memphis Southmen in a 14-7 victory over Shreveport, La., in the World Football League.
1965: George Bellino, Youngstown Henry Stambaugh Course pro, turns in a 36-37-73 in the fourth round of the $3,000 Akron Open.
Among the 13 people approved by Gov. James A. Rhodes for state assignments is Clingan Jackson of Youngstown, appointed to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.
Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Don L. Hanni Jr. orders motorists appearing in his court to view gruesome police photographs of traffic victims as part of the city’s drive to reduce traffic fatalities.
1940: Leon H. Keyserling, acting administrator of the U.S. Housing Authority, says Youngstown will lose its second federal housing project, the $1.7 million McGuffey Homes job, unless city council approves a cooperation agreement.
The Youngstown Business and Professional Women’s Club takes over Crandall Park, serving an all-you-can-eat breakfast for 50 cents, with proceeds going to Red Cross war relief.
Thanks to the heat wave, Youngstown’s six public swimming pool already are operating in the black, with 113,287 swimmers and receipts of $5,658 so far this season.