YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, July 9, the 191st day of 2016. There are 175 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1540: England’s King Henry VIII has his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.

1776: The Declaration of Independence is read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.

1850: The 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, dies after serving only 16 months of his term.

1896: William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous “cross of gold” speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago.

1918: Some 101 people are killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tenn.

The Distinguished Service Cross was established by an Act of Congress.

1945: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unveils his design for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a spiral structure on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was completed in 1959.

1951: President Harry S. Truman asks Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany. (An official end to the state of war was declared in October 1951.)

1962: Pop artist Andy Warhol’s exhibit of 32 paintings of Campbell’s soup cans opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

1974: Former U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren dies in Washington at age 83.

1995: Jerry Garcia performs for the final time as frontman of the Grateful Dead during a concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field (Garcia died a month later).

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1991: Southington Christian Church is struck by lightning, which sparked a fire that destroyed the steeple.

Warren auditor Anthony Iannucci says the city has paid out $473,480 in the first six months of 1991 to retiring city employees, straining a budget that is also seeing at least $125,000 in delinquent tax collections.

The Western Reserve Transit Authority is using a “Clean Air Bus” powered by natural gas on loan from the East Ohio Gas Co. for a six-week trial.

1976: The Youngstown Board of Education names principals and assistant principals at six buildings. Among them are Patrick J. Ungaro, named assistant principal at South High, and Charles Sammarone, assistant principal at Woodrow Wilson High.

Thelma Murphy Camp, 34, organist at the Youngstown Charity Horse Show for 32 years, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital. She once operated a music studio in the old bus arcade and presented organ programs on radio for many years.

Edward J. Salata, Youngstown city engineer, accepts a job as a consultant on the proposed Youngstown State University sports complex.

1966: Classes in swimming, diving, racing and other water sports begin at East Palestine’s City Park in preparation for the annual Labor Day water program, manager Baird Stewart announces.

Richard Rudibaugh of Elk Run Township plows and seeds his 18-acre corn crop with two Belgian horses instead of a tractor. His corn was shoulder high by the Fourth of July.

1941: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. is named general chairman and Canfield Mayor George Wilson is campaign chairman to collect aluminum in Mahoning County outside of Youngstown.

W. Santor, Lou Babalo and S. Pipoly tie for low honors in the city’s Y Golf League play at Mill Creek Park, each carding a 38.

Many families in Westlake Terrace face eviction because their income has increased beyond the limit allowed for tenancy.