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1846: U.S. annexation of California is proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

1865: Four people are hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government.

1898: The United States annexes Hawaii.

1937: The Second Sino-Japanese War erupts into full-scale conflict as Imperial Japanese forces attack the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing.

1954: Elvis Presley makes his radio debut as Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ plays his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.”

1976: President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford host a White House dinner for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.

1981: President Ronald Reagan announces he is nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

2015: Subway says it has mutually agreed with Jared Fogle to suspend their relationship after the home of the sandwich chain’s longtime pitchman was raided by federal and state investigators. (Fogle later pleaded guilty to one count each of distributing and receiving child porn and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a child, and was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.)

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1991: The Rev. William Newby, his wife, Dorothy, and the Greenville Literacy Council are teaching inmates in the Mercer County Jail how to read and write so that when they get out of jail, they will be better able to find honest work.

A field of 129 of the best women professional golfers that the LPGA Tour has to offer have committed to play in the Phar-Mor tournament at Squaw Creek Country Club.

More than 10,000 people are expected at the National Campers and Hikers Association convention at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

1976: A controversial bill that would establish tenure for Ohio’s public school teachers is vetoed by Gov. James A. Rhodes.

Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin tells Mahoning County commissioners that they can legally sell or lease the financially troubled county nursing home.

The former Erie Terminal building, known as the Binama Building at West Commerce and North Phelps streets, has been purchased by a group of Youngstown and Columbus interests for $200,000.

1966: Hanoi Radio announces that Lt. Cmdr. Robert Shumaker of New Wilmington, Pa., a captive since Feb. 11, 1965, is among the American prisoners of war that North Vietnam intends to put on trial for purported war crimes.

Democrats on Youngstown City Council reject a proposal by 5th Ward Republican Jack C. Hunter that the city’s wards be realigned and that a “little Hoover” commission be created to survey city services.

1941: Rain halts the national marbles tournament at Wildwood, N.J., where Tom Blangero is representing Youngstown.

Crowds at the Youngstown Municipal Airport on the first Sunday after the airport was opened exceeded those of opening day and the Fourth of July as sightseers come to see airliners take off and land.

Tom Pemberton, park and playground superintendent, says that since the city swimming pools opened June 23, receipts have been $3,500, about seven times more than for the same period in 1940. On an average day, the pools have 8,000 visitors.