Today is Sunday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2016

Today is Sunday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2016. There are 174 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1509: Theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, is born in Noyon, France.

1890: Wyoming becomes the 44th state.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urges its ratification. (However, the Senate rejects it.)

1925: Jury selection takes place in Dayton, Tenn., in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)

1929: American paper currency is reduced in size as the government begins issuing bills that are approximately 25 percent smaller.

1940: During World War II, the Battle of Britain begins as the Luftwaffe starts attacking southern England. (The Royal Air Force is ultimately victorious.)

1943: During World War II, U.S. and British forces invade Sicily.

1951: Armistice talks to end the Korean War begin at Kaesong.

1962: AT&T’s Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of relaying television signals and telephone calls, is launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral.

1973: The Bahamas becomes fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.

John Paul Getty III, the teenage grandson of the oil tycoon, is abducted in Rome by kidnappers who cut off his ear when his family is slow to meet their ransom demands; young Getty is released in December 1973 for nearly $3 million.

1985: The Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist is killed.

Bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. says it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while still selling New Coke.

1991: Boris N. Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

President George H.W. Bush lifts economic sanctions against South Africa.

1999: The United States women’s soccer team wins the World Cup, beating China 5-4 on penalty kicks after 120 minutes of scoreless play at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

2006: A Manhattan town house is leveled by an explosion; authorities say a suicidal doctor set off the blast to avoid selling the $4 million mansion in a divorce settlement. (The doctor, Nicholas Bartha, died five days later.)

A section of ceiling in Boston’s Big Dig tunnel collapses, killing a car passenger.

A Pakistani passenger plane crashes, killing all 45 people on board.

Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev is killed when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy explodes.

2011: The space shuttle Atlantis docks with the International Space Station, the final such hookup in orbit.

An overloaded cruise vessel sinks in Russia’s Volga River, killing 122 people.

Some 70 people are killed when a train derails in northern India.

Britain’s best-selling Sunday tabloid the News of the World, brought down by a phone-hacking scandal, signs off with a simple front page message: “THANK YOU & GOODBYE.”

Acclaimed French choreographer Roland Petit, 87, dies in Geneva.

2015: Katherine Archuleta, the embattled head of the government’s Office of Personnel Management, abruptly steps down, bowing to mounting pressure following the unprecedented breach of private information her agency was entrusted to protect.

To the cheers of thousands, South Carolina pulls the Confederate flag from its place of honor at the Statehouse after more than 50 years.

Actor Omar Sharif, 83, dies in Cairo; actor Roger Rees, 71, dies in New York; opera singer Jon Vickers, 88, dies in Ontario, Canada.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: On the first day of the Trumbull County Fair, 4,030 people pass through the gates under sunny skies.

A member of the Warren Board of Education, Sharon Nuzzi, is rethinking her vote to consolidate the Warren and Trumbull Joint Vocational Schools after an Ohio House-Senate committee removes a guarantee of $2.5 million that was to go to the city schools under a bill introduced in the House by state Rep. Michael Verich.

Youngstown’s income tax collection for the first six months of 1991 is $13.2 million, an increase of 2 percent over the same period a year earlier.

1976: Youngstown and Struthers are among 16 Ohio cities that have banded together to oppose a $200 million rate increase sought by the Ohio Bell Telephone Co.

Chester Carson, a Mahoning County sheriff’s deputy on loan to the Ashtabula County sheriff’s office, posed as a killer-for-hire to help nab an Ashtabula County official who wanted his wife murdered.

The Rev. Jacqueline Russell, former pastor of Coalburg United Methodist Church, Hubbard, is the new pastor of Lockwood United Methodist Church in Boardman.

1966: Dr. Bernard Yozwiak, professor of mathematics at Youngstown University, is named chairman of the math department. He joined the faculty in 1947.

Col. Albert A. Tisone of Struthers is the new deputy controller for the Defense Supply Agency in Alexandria, Va. A graduate of Rayen School and Youngstown University, Tisone received his doctorate at George Washington University.

1941: A housing committee headed by Leo Heller develops the “Youngstown Plan” to provide decent affordable housing for hundreds of families in the city.

A gavel and past-president’s pin are presented to Fred James, retiring president of the Rotary Club. Each week, an English Rotary Club salutes an American club. The Youngstown club was chosen the club of Sale, Manchester, England.

An effort to work out airline schedules that will give Youngstown more satisfactory passenger and mail service will be made at a meeting at the Youngstown Club. Early morning and late evening flights are needed.

Tom Blangero, Vindicator marbles champion, is eliminated from the national tournament in Wildwood, N.J., but wins third place in his league.