YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, July 22, the 204th day of 2016. There are 162 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1796: Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln presents to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

1916: Ten people are killed when a suitcase bomb goes off during San Francisco’s Preparedness Day parade, an event sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce in anticipation of America’s entry into World War I.

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater.

1943: American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.

1986: For the first time in a half-century, the House of Representatives impeaches a federal official; Judge Harry E. Claiborne is later convicted by the Senate of tax evasion and bringing disrepute on the federal courts.

1991: Police in Milwaukee arrest Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed murdering 17 men and boys. (Dahmer ended up being beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate.)

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1991: Mahoning County’s juvenile justice system, which once dealt primarily with runaways and truancies, is housing an increasing number of young offenders charged with serious crimes including gun-slinging and drug activity.

The Kiwanis Club of Youngstown celebrates its 75th anniversary, which was the 15th Kiwanis club in the United States when it was formed in 1916. It was originally called the Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order of Brothers.

1976: The 1976 Catholic Charities Appeal campaign yields $410,000 for the six-county Youngstown Diocese.

Greg Rudawsky, 15, of Poland, who had been in a coma since being struck by lightning July 11 at the Berlin Reservoir, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Twenty fifth- and sixth-graders on Youngs-town’s East Side are learning to play the violin from Diane Anastasiades, an instructor for the Youngstown Area Arts Council’s summer program at Immaculate Conception School.

1966: The Board of Directors of the Mahoning County Tuberculosis and Health Association and visitors attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new $50,000 office and outpatient clinic at Rayen Avenue and Watt Street.

Lourdes Cruz of San Jiguel, Philippines, will arrive in Niles as the fifth American Field Service exchange student to attend McKinley High School. She will stay with Mr. and Mrs. John Shaffer on Frederick Street.

Five teenagers, four of them Rayen School athletes, are injured when their 1964 convertible slams into a house at 1604 Stewart Ave. Injured are Bennie Blunt, 19; Jessie Langley, 19; Fred Bennett, 19; Phillip Bell, 18; and Jessie Williams, 16.

1941: Voting by 1,300 Truscon Steel Co. employees will determine a collective bargaining agency, choosing between SWOC Union 2434, New Deal Lodge 404 of the International Association of Machinists, or none.

Carrier representatives report 263 passengers boarded planes of United Air Lines and Pennsylvania Central at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Youngstown Councilman Nicholas P. Bernard requests appointment of an anti-smoke committee after council receives a protest from the Youngstown Hotel about smoky conditions and noise caused by railroad switching nearby.