YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, July 18, the 200th day of 2016. There are 166 days left in the year.

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A.D. 64: The Great Fire of Rome began, consuming most of the city for about a week. (Some blamed the fire on Emperor Nero, who in turn blamed Christians.)

1872: Britain enacts voting by secret ballot.

1925: Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his autobiographical screed, “Mein Kampf [My Struggle].”

1932: The United States and Canada sign a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1947: President Harry S. Truman signs a Presidential Succession Act, which places the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.

1976: A 14-year-old Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, competing at the Montreal Olympics, receives the first perfect score of 10 with her routine on uneven parallel bars. (Comaneci would go on to receive six more 10s in Montreal.)

2006: Gen. David Petraeus hands over command of American and coalition forces in Afghanistan to Gen. John Allen as he leaves to take over the Central Intelligence Agency.

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1991: Larry and Alice Smith of Canfield are attacked by a bear while hiking in Glacier National Park. Both are in stable condition in a Montana hospital.

Four months after Black Muslim security guards began patrolling the Westview Terrace apartment complex in New Castle, the gang violence and drug activity has almost vanished, but 20 of the 98 apartments in the complex remain vacant.

Workers at the Lordstown plant of General Motors approve a landmark deal that will cut operating costs, allow expansion of J-car production. The agreement is projected to save 1,700 jobs at the plant.

1976: Empire builder Victor Posner is using Sharon Steel Corp. as a takeover vehicle in an effort to grab control of Foremost-McKesson Inc., a 100-year-old, $2.5 billion San Francisco company that dwarfs Sharon Steel, McKesson is resisting Posner’s efforts.

The Youngstown area’s first solar-powered home is built at 10 Dorchester Drive in the Hubbard Meadowlands by StanJim Homes. The solar panels were provided by Solar Energy Engineering of Youngstown.

The 33rd annual Youngstown Charity Horse Show concludes another successful run, despite heavy rain forcing the cancellation of events for one day.

1966: Henry H.M. Jacobs, a native of Indonesia and a member of the Mount Union faculty, is appointed an economics instructor in the School of Business Administration at Youngstown University.

About 1,500 people attend German-American Day at Idora Park and hear Chester Amedia, an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel, describe the differences between East and West German. He recently returned from Germany.

Six Austintown boys ranging in age from 9 to 13 are turned over to juvenile authorities after admitting to cutting wires that control the warning devices at the Route 18 crossing of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.

1941: Youngstowners are drawing fatter pay envelopes with the national defense industry booming, and are putting more of their income into accounts at Youngstown’s four large banks, which report a gain of $6 million in total deposits since Jan. 1.

A car crashes through a guardrail, skids off the incline of the Oak Street Bridge, rolls over and lands at Elk and Meadow streets. The driver, John Henyard, has several cuts, but returns to work three hours later.

The Homestead Grays, four-time winners of the Negro National League and three-time Negro world champions, are coming to Idora Park to play the Philadelphia Stars.