YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, July 1, the 183rd day of 2016. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.

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On this date in:

1535: Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England, charged with high treason for rejecting the Oath of Supremacy. (More was convicted and executed.)

1863: The pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, begins in Pennsylvania.

1867: Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act takes effect.

1916: Dwight D. Eisenhower marries Mary (“Mamie”) Geneva Doud in Denver.

1934: Hollywood begins enforcing its Production Code subjecting motion pictures to censorship review.

1961: Diana, the princess of Wales, is born in Sandringham, England. (She died in a 1997 car crash in Paris at age 36.)

1966: The Medicare federal insurance program goes into effect.

1974: The president of Argentina, Juan Peron, dies; he is succeeded by his wife, Isabel Martinez de Peron.

1991: President George H.W. Bush nominates federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, beginning an ultimately successful confirmation process marked by allegations of sexual harassment.

2004: Actor Marlon Brando dies in Los Angeles at age 80.

2011: Leon Panetta takes over as U.S. secretary of defense after 21/2 years as director of the CIA.

2015: After more than a half-century of hostility, the United States and Cuba declare they will reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, marking a historic full restoration of diplomatic relations between the Cold War foes.

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1991: The Galaxy Cheese factory in Neshannock Township near New Castle, Pa., is destroyed by a fire that took a dozen fire companies to extinguish.

Anthony Less, 53, a graduate of Leetonia High School, is promoted to vice admiral in the Navy and will command the Naval Air Forces Atlantic.

1976: Some 1,200 members of United Steelworkers of America Local 1617 strike GF Business Equipment Inc. in Youngstown, halting production.

1966: The massive Medicare program providing hospital insurance for 19 million senior citizens goes into effect. It includes an optional doctor bill policy elected by 17.3 million at a premium of $3 per month.

A hometown talent show will take place in Leetonia, sponsored by the centennial “Brothers of the Brush” organization and open to any village resident, regardless of age or type of talent.

1941: About 1,000 letters bearing the special air mail cachet commemorating the dedication of the Youngstown Municipal Airport are on the first flight to leave the airport. Thousands of people converged on Youngstown’s new $2.6 million airport for the formal dedication. William Stout, designer of the famous Ford Trimotor plane was the speaker.

About 2,000 fishermen are at Newport and Glacier lakes in Mill Creek Park for the opening day of fishing season. Officials say the turnout was down from previous years because of better economic times and the opening of the new airport.

Garbage collections resume after a one-day strike by members of Teamsters Local 377 after the M. DeBartolo Co. increases the per-ton payment from $1.85 to $1.95, which is divided among the three men on each crew. The company operates nine trucks.