YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2016. There are 163 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1773: Pope Clement XIV issues an order suppressing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits. (The Society was restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814.)

1816: Paul Reuter, founder of the British news agency bearing his name, is born in Kassel, Hesse, Germany.

1861: During the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run is fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.

1925: The so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction later was overturned on a technicality.)

1930: President Herbert Hoover signs an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).

1949: The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.

1972: The Irish Republican Army carries out 22 bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what would become known as “Bloody Friday.”

2006: The 30-year-old space shuttle program ends as Atlantis lands at Cape Canaveral, Fla., after the 135th shuttle flight.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Two 14-foot-high fences with razor wire attached are installed around the Trumbull Correctional Institution, the $37 million state penitentiary being built on Warren’s West Side. Completion is scheduled in the spring of 1992.

Anita Means of Warren, who won the Girls National Marbles Tournament as Anita Danyluk in 1961, still teaches youngsters the art of the game.

1976: John A. Coakley, vice president of Commercial Shearing Inc., will head the Youngstown United Appeal’s campaign for $2.1 million in its fall campaign.

Some 2,600 striking Westinghouse Electric Corp. workers in Sharon are back on the job, ending a strike and picketing at the plant.

The Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club stages a mini-dog show on Federal Plaza in downtown Youngstown as a preview of its big event at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

1966: Mrs. Thelma Pletcher of Lake Milton learns that her husband, Capt. James Pletcher, of the Ohio National Guard had been slightly wounded during racial disturbances in Cleveland.

George Steel is promoted to assistant sales director for the A&P Central division at Pittsburgh.

Hundreds line Boardman and Grant streets in New Springfield for an antique car parade that opened the Volunteer Fire Department’s 20th annual homecoming celebration.

First Ward Councilman John Franken says abuse of sick leave by Youngstown garbage collectors is the main reason why collections, which used to be done every 10 to 12 days, have stretched to 17 days.

1941: Appealing to rural housewives, Canfield Mayor George Wilson declares that America needs aluminum more rapidly than existing facilities can produce it. Collectors will call on every home in the county.

A three-dimensional Polaroid motion picture will be the feature of the Plymouth Motor Fair at South High School. The fair, in two big carnival tents, is sponsored by three local Plymouth dealers.

Sheba, “Queen of the Lions,” gets loose from her cage while the Mighty Sheesley’s Midway caravan is unloading at Mahoning Avenue and Meridian Road. The lion is cornered among the trucks and put back in chains after three hours.