YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, July 19, the 201st day of 2016. There are 165 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1553: King Henry VIII’s daughter, Mary, is proclaimed Queen of England after Lady Jane Grey is deposed.

1848: A pioneering women’s rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

1903: The first Tour de France is won by Maurice Garin.

1941: Britain launches its “V for Victory” campaign during World War II with Prime Minister Winston Churchill calling the V-sign hand gesture “the symbol of the unconquerable will of the people of the occupied territories and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.”

1944: The Democratic National Convention convenes in Chicago with the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a certainty.

1961: TWA becomes the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presents “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.

1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics begins, minus dozens of nations that are boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1996: Opening ceremonies take place in Atlanta for the 26th Summer Olympic Games.

2006: President George W. Bush issues his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that could have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research.

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1991: After three months of playing it close to the vest, Toys R Us confirms that it will build a $29 million distribution center in Youngstown’s Salt Springs Industrial Park. (The center closed in 2014.)

The General Aggregates site in Vernon Township in Trumbull County and Chemline Corp. in Lisbon, Columbiana County, are on the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Master Sites List of places where hazardous waste “may present a substantial risk to public safety.”

Warren Police Chief Thomas Hutson “completely exonerates” five police officers of any wrongdoing after a man accused them of beating him after a slow-speed chase through the city.

1976: A Lyden Oil Co. tanker carrying 9,300 gallons of gasoline overturns into the Meander Reservoir off the Interstate 80 bridge.

Major Gen. James C. Clem, adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard, and U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney help break ground for a new $930,000 Ohio National Guard Armory on Victoria Road in Austintown.

Dr. Paul D. Bunn, endocrinologist and an assistant professor in the department of medicine at Ohio State University, is named to the staff of the Youngstown Hospital Association.

1966: A bolt of lightning shakes many downtown Youngstown buildings is believed to be responsible for a three-alarm fire at the Scholl-Choffin Building on Hogue Street. Damage is estimated at $50,000.

With Boardman Township water pressure at its lowest level, one Boardman official will ask county commissioners to begin a township water-improvement project immediately. Hundreds of families were without water for 12 hours.

Peter P. Chick of Lake Milton dies after falling 18 feet from a beam in the warehouse of the Copperweld Steel Co. in Warren.

1941: Nearly $1.5 million will be distributed to Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. shareholders in dividends voted by company directors.

Judge Erskine Maiden Jr., in charge of the county aluminum campaign, and Assistant Law Director James Cannon, in charge of the city collection, tugged on an aluminum kettle to urge donations of the metal to the U.S. defense effort.