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Today is Wednesday, July 13, the 195th day of 2016. There are 171 days left in the year.

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1787: The Congress of the Confederation adopts the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory, an area corresponding to the eastern half of the present-day Midwest. Ohio, the southeastern portion of the territory, was admitted to the union in 1803.

1863: Deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupts in New York City. (The insurrection was put down three days later.)

1972: George McGovern receives the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Miami Beach.

1985: “Live Aid,” an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, takes place to raise money for Africa’s starving people.

2015: Calling America “a nation of second chances,” President Barack Obama cuts the prison sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders.

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1991: A 44-year-old Austintown man is charged with one felony count and six misdemeanors after being arrested for selling fireworks out of a camper in the parking lot of the General Motors Lords- town plant.

Krista Blake, a Lisbon woman who has become an AIDS activist, files a $1.2 million lawsuit against the man she said infected her with the HIV virus without telling her that he had tested positive for the virus.

Father Timothy O’Neill, pastor at St. Paul the Apostle Church in New Middletown, describes himself as “just ordinary” but he draws high praise from parishioners for his ability to expose his own feelings and connect with people in all walks of life.

1976: Dr. Leonore Hoffmann, an English professor at Youngstown State University, is completing a film, “Women of the Western Reserve,” that was funded by a $7,675 grant from the Ohio Program in the Humanities.

An unidentified Ohio State Highway Patrolman from the Canfield barracks spent more than 100 hours of his own time tracking down a 1968 Pontiac involved in the hit-and-run death of Ormond W. Long Jr., 21, of Salem. The officer had only a piece of a turn-signal lens and a fleck of paint, which led him to visit every Pontiac garage in the area for information on every car sold that matched the model and color. The car was found, partially disassembled, in a barn in Salem.

Clifford McGinnis of 39 W. Water St., Hubbard, a retired postman and self-taught artist, carves and paints realistic duck decoys that are meant as ornaments, not for use in hunting. He also paints oil landscapes.

1966: Youngstown Police Chief John Terlesky authorizes two towing firms, Passarelli Brothers and Riley Brothers, to handle all towing cases on city streets and cautions others against violating an ordinance prohibiting monitoring of police calls to pick up business.

Ohio Edison Co. is confident it can supply all its customers needs without any power blackouts in spite of unusually high electrical loads due to intensive use of air conditioning equipment..

After a day’s delay because of the airline strike, The Vindicator Tour group bound for Europe leaves New York by Air India to begin the first leg of a trip to London. A second Vindicator group headed for Scandinavia leaves New York for Glasgow aboard KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

1941: Jerome H. King leaves Youngstown for Hawaii to enter active service as an ensign aboard the U.S.S. Trenton.

Army officers announce plans to photograph and fingerprint 14,000 employees at the government’s $39 million arsenal at Ravenna as a precaution against saboteurs and spies.

A new bridge will be built across the Mahoning River at Lowellville. The 320-foot span will cost an estimated $125,000.