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Today is Wednesday, July 29, the 210th day of 2015. There are 155 days left in the year.

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1890: Artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, dies of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

1914: Transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. becomes operational with the first test conversation between New York and San Francisco.

1921: Adolf Hitler becomes the leader (“fuehrer”) of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

One year ago: Spurred to action by the downing of a Malaysian airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions against Russia, including an arms embargo and restrictions on state-owned banks.

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1990: Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro is asked to serve on Ohioans Against Casino Gambling Citizens Committee by Youngstown Atty. Carmen A. Policy, an executive vice president for the San Francisco 49ers football team.

Youngstown’s Jeff Lampkin successfully defends his International Boxing Federation cruiserweight championship, sending Siza Makhathini of South Africa to the canvas in the eighth round in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Two Pittsburgh Steelers, linebacker Jack Lambert and running back Franco Harris, are among six players being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton.

1975: A bill requiring state and local government bodies to conduct their business at meetings open to the public passes the Ohio House 86-7.

“There’s nothing the matter with the Mahoning Valley that 40,000 jobs won’t cure,” Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes says in Youngstown City Council chambers as he makes a pitch for four anti- recession measures he is promoting.

All Ohio doctors and hospitals are guaranteed malpractice insurance coverage under a new state law signed by Gov. Rhodes.

1965: A proposal to allow Sunday sales of liquor in Cleveland and Cincinnati is rejected by the Ohio Legislature on a vote of 75-50, with 25 Democrats joining 50 Republicans to scuttle the proposal.

An unexplained explosion on Walnut Street in downtown East Liverpool sends a passing bicyclist, Harry Fotheringham, 14, to City Hospital with burns of the face and hands.

The New Castle Redevelopment Authority names Preston & Williams Inc. of Mount Jackson as developer of the proposed $3.3 million Lower Neshannock Creek Project, a 26-acre site for a shopping center and 9,543-space parking lot.

1940: Albert Horton, 77, a former sulky driver, is found murdered in his bed in a lonely farmhouse on Youngstown-Hubbard Road in Trumbull County. Missing from a nearby chest was valuable silverware and jewelry Horton was known to have.

Three new lines of 1941 Hudson cars, all longer, lower and more graceful than previous models, are unveiled at a meeting of Youngstown area Hudson dealers at Stambaugh Auditorium. These are the first 1941 model cars to arrive in the city.

Dr. David H. Kramer, 68, retired minister of Kinsman Congregational Church, dies at his home after a five-year illness. Doctors say the heat wave hastened his death.