YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, July 15, the 197th day of 2016. There are 169 days left in the year.

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1799: French soldiers in Egypt discover the Rosetta Stone, which proves instrumental in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

1932: President Herbert Hoover announces he is slashing his salary by 20 percent, from $75,000 to $60,000 a year.

1976: A 36-hour kidnap ordeal begins for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, Calif., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. (The captives escaped unharmed; the kidnappers were caught.)

1985:A visibly gaunt Rock Hudson appears at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from complications from AIDS).

1996: MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, debuts on cable and the Internet.

2006: The U.N. Security Council condemns North Korea’s missile tests and imposes limited sanctions.

2015: Vigorously challenging his critics, President Barack Obama launches an aggressive and detailed defense of a landmark Iranian nuclear accord.

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1991: Atty. Donna McCollum, who has been working with Mahoning County’s young people for 12 years, says she’s seeing many hardened kids who either don’t know or don’t care about the difference between right and wrong.

A change is being considered in the dress code for McDonald Schools that would allow the wearing of shorts on hot days in May, June, August and September. A parent suggests the district reconsider restrictions on the length of hair on boys and the prohibition of earrings on boys because of the possibility of sex discrimination.

Six days of generally sunny weather boosts attendance at the Trumbull County Fair to 60,534, compared with 33,750 a year earlier.

1976: Two Vindicator carriers, Tonita Menendez and Russell Lynch, East High students, are credited with saving the life of Elizabeth Helsel, 86, when they became suspicious about her newspaper remaining where they left it a day before. They searched the grounds of her Lansdowne Boulevard home and found her behind the house, disabled with a broken leg. She had been outside for 30 hours, through the heat of the day and a chilling rain.

George R. Thompson Jr., who escaped from the Mahoning County jail after jumping from a fourth-story window June 19, is recaptured in Akron.

James W. Shocknessy, outspoken guardian of the Ohio Turnpike since its inception in 1949, dies of complications from cancer in Columbus. He was 69.

1966: Youngstown Rotary Club members are shown weapons such as clubs, chains, brass knuckles, switchblades and guns by Atty. Paul Smith during his discussion of juvenile delinquency. All the weapons were taken from local juveniles.

A statewide teacher shortage is reflected in the Youngstown area, which needs more than 100 teachers by September. Youngstown public schools need close to 50 teachers in the junior and senior high schools.

Trustees of Mahoning Community College chose Candill, Rowlet and Scott, an architectural firm in Houston, Texas, for the projected $20 million community college on the 300-acre site of the old county home near Canfield.

1941: Production of howitzers, the destructive light cannon used for short-range work, has been started in United Engineering & Foundry Co.’s local plant under a $3.2 million contract awarded by the War Department.

Mark A. Osborne, deputy finance director and chief city accountant for six years, resigns to accept a position with a private firm.