YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2016. There are 173 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1767: John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, is born in Braintree, Mass.

1798: The U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.

1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J. (Hamilton died the next day.)

1922: The Hollywood Bowl officially opens with a program called “Symphonies Under the Stars” with Alfred Hertz conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

1952: The Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.

1960: The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.

1966: The game show “The Newlywed Game,” hosted by Bob Eubanks, premieres on ABC-TV.

1989: Actor and director Laurence Olivier dies in Steyning, West Sussex, England, at age 82.

1995: The U.N.-designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina falls to Bosnian Serb forces, who then carried out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

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1991: Youngstown and Girard are two of 15 Ohio cities participating in the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s aerial surveillance program. A state patrol plane times speeders and relays information to city police cruisers below.

Officials at ESSROC Materials Inc. in Bessemer, Pa., say a few dozen “emotionally charged” residents are trying to pressure borough officials to block a company plan to burn a hazardous-waste derivative for fuel at the Bessemer cement plant.

A Trumbull County common-pleas referee rules that the city of Niles is liable for damage to three homes after a power surge in May 1989 ruined appliances and inconvenienced residents.

1976: Forty Warren-area teenagers are spending their summer vacation as members of Teenage Enterprises Inc., a nonprofit corporation that is operating Miracle Station, a refurbished Penn Central Railroad station at 777 E. Market St. The project is the brainchild of James Friend, art supervisor for the Warren City School District.

The “Big Three,” General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, gear up for negotiations with the United Auto Workers, which are likely to be contentious, given a resurgence in the industry, including for workers at the General Motors Lordstown Complex.

Cmdr. Joseph W. Timlin, a graduate of Austintown Fitch High School, retires from the Navy after 20 years of service, including two tours of duty in Vietnam as a jet fighter pilot.

1966: Before nearly 10,000 area residents, Gary Thompson of Canfield races to victory in his blue cruiser, winning the sixth Youngstown Soap Box Derby.

For the 21st-consecutive day, above-normal temperatures prevail in the Youngstown district. Temperatures are in the 90s with no relief in sight. Two men suffer from heat exhaustion.

Thirty-eight foreign students from 22 counties arrive in Youngstown for a two-day stay under sponsorship of the American Field Service.

1941: Sharon tennis players under the guidance of Harold Cox are the first entries outside of Youngstown planning to enter the Vindicator Public Parks Tennis Championship.

Youngstown police officer William Lally, former detective chief, is at the top of the list of nine patrolmen whose grades in recent examinations for promotion to detective were tabulated by the Civil Service Commission.

Eighty foursomes tee off in the seventh annual Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament at Southern Hills Country Club. Lucius B. McKelvey is the chamber golf committee chairman.