Today is Saturday, July 23, the 205th day of 2016

Today is Saturday, July 23, the 205th day of 2016. There are 161 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.

1914: Austria-Hungary presents a list of demands to Serbia after the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum leads to the outbreak of World War I.

1962: The first public TV transmissions over Telstar 1 take place during a special program featuring live shots beamed from the United States to Europe, and vice versa.

1967: A week of deadly race-related rioting that would claim 43 lives erupts in Detroit.

1982: Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, are killed when a helicopter crashes on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”

1996: In one of the best-remembered moments of the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug makes a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her sprained left ankle as the U.S. women gymnasts clinch their first Olympic team gold medal.

2011: Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

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1991: Gov. George V. Voinovich pledges grants totaling $3 million from the state to Mahoning Valley economic development.

Public stock offerings during 1990 by RMI Titanium Co. and American Waste Service Inc. give the Youngstown-Warren area six representatives on the list of Ohio’s 200 largest public companies. The others are Commercial Intertech, CSC Industries, Ohio Bancorp and Mahoning National Bank.

Lloyd E. Reuss, president of General Motors Corp., says the company’s North American auto operations, which have been losing $4 billion to $8 billion a year, will be profitable within five years.

1976: J. Phillip Richley, former Youngstown and Mahoning County engineer and transportation director under former Gov. John J. Gilligan, is being mentioned as a likely candidate for chairman of the Ohio Turnpike Commission.

School and Urban League officials open the league’s new satellite project, the Learning Supplement Center in the Mill Creek Community Center.

Field Holcombe Jr., 38, is pronounced dead at South Side Hospital after he was shot four times at his Chicago Avenue home and was injured further when the car rushing him to the hospital was involved in a violent collision at Oak Hill and Woodland avenues.

1966: As part of an $11 million expansion program, Kaiser Refractories will build a $2 million addition to its Columbiana refractories plant to produce a variety of products for the steel industry’s new basic oxygen furnaces.

Ralph Kline, well-known investor and business editor of the Youngstown Telegram, dies of infirmities at his home.

Juvenile Court Referee Joseph Bryan sentences a Steel Street woman to a suspended three-month jail sentence for buying liquor for minors and hosting drinking and sex parties for juveniles at her home.

1941: The flood control bill, which includes authorization of funds for the construction of Berlin and Mosquito Creek reservoirs, was favorably acted upon at the executive session of a House subcommittee.

A one-story building containing two storerooms is being built next to the Uptown Theater by George Chakus. He plans to operate a dairy in one storeroom; the other has not yet been rented.