YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, July 25, the 207th day of 2016. There are 159 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1866: Ulysses S. Grant is named general of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.

1934: Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is assassinated by pro-Nazi Austrians in a failed coup attempt.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for Japan’s occupation of southern Indochina.

1946: The United States detonates an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.

1952: Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1975: The musical “A Chorus Line” opens on Broadway, beginning a run of 6,137 performances.

2000: A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first crash of the supersonic jet.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Youngstown City Council approves a proposal by Fire Chief Hector Colon that eliminates the position of ambulance attendant in the fire department and uses firefighters to double as EMTs.

Warren City Council approves a 50 percent increase in sewer-service rates as the city reels from wastewater operating deficits and environmental costs.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says he has asked the FBI to investigate past sales of land at Lake Milton by the city of Youngstown to private owners. Some longtime residents say they were shut out of the sales.

1976: John Marshall, a Hubbard man who just received his bachelor’s degree in education from Youngstown State University, is leaving for a teaching position in the Outback, a rural region of Australia.

Despite the efforts of a neighbor, Walter Tesner, 7-year-old John Frederick accidentally strangles after becoming entangled in a pair of pants on a clothes line while playing in his Fleming Street backyard.

The late Ernest C. Hall, Howland aviator, will be honored on the last day of the Trumbull County Fair with the dedication of an airstrip named in his honor adjacent to the fairgrounds.

1966: Robert Groves of Greenford, Mahoning County 4-H extension agent, will leave in September to become 4-H agent in Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry and Washington counties.

The annual DeMain, DelQuadri and Vicarel family reunion takes place at Glen Echo Park with about 100 attending, the farthest coming from New Jersey.

Drexel A. Scott of Poland buys “Little Stinker,” a 21-year-old award-winning biplane, and brings it to Lansdowne Airport, where it is being refurbished.

1941: Youngstowners receiving cards with a message from Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, urging appeals to President Roosevelt against entering the war, are mystified as to how the America First Committee, which sent the cards, got their names and addresses.

Enough aluminum to build several pursuit planes was collected in Mahoning County and its cities, with 5,550 pounds of aluminum weighed at the Wilkoff Co.

Eight children are crowned champions in the city playground “washers” tournament. They are Dorothy Lucas, Marie Mernan, English Preston, Dan Capalichi, Bob Sobnosky, Jim Rodgers, Daisy Gilmore and Henrietta Johnson.