YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, July 27, the 209th day of 2016. There are 157 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: President George Washington signs a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.

1866: Cyrus W. Field finishes laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.

1921: Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeed in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.

1946: American author, poet and publisher Gertrude Stein, 72, dies in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1953: The Korean War armistice is signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

1960: Vice President Richard M. Nixon is nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican national convention in Chicago.

1974: The House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.

1995: The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington.

1996: Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park, directly killing one person and injuring 111.

2003: Comedian Bob Hope dies in Toluca Lake, Calif., at age 100.

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1991: Pittsburgh police are searching for a suspect in the wounding of William Bland, 38, of Youngstown, a member of the Black Muslim security force that patrols a low-income housing project in Pittsburgh. Bland is in critical condition in Mercy Hospital.

A disturbance involving at least two dozen people at the St. Demetrios Church Greek Festival on Atlantic Street Northeast in Warren results in five arrests for fighting.

The Rev. Christine Goodman, formerly of Boardman, has worked through the Presbyterian church with war-displaced Kurds in Berlin, Germany, and has spent two weeks in northern Iraq working with Kurdish people.

1976: A 1 million, 100-unit apartment complex is under construction by Robert C. Pesa on Gluck Street on Youngstown’s East Side. It will be known as Lincoln Square Townhouse.

Chief Judge Frank Battisti of the U.S. District Court in Cleveland will be honored as one of the nation’s outstanding judges by the Association of Trial Lawyers of American during their convention in Atlanta, Ga.

Youngstown Municipal Judge Lloyd R. Haynes dismisses a charge of selling liquor to a minor against city school board member Ralph Clark after city prosecutors failed to provide a list of witnesses they planned to call.

1966: Kenneth Lloyd of Youngstown tells the Ohio Water Pollution Control Board that $166 million already has been spent to improve and control water resources in Youngstown and that any further expenditure is impossible.

Sgt. Kenneth Miller of the local howitzer battery, reports the Youngstown area National Guard units activated and sent to Cleveland to deal with an outbreak of race riots may return home in a few days.

Valley Mould & Iron Corp., which has plants in Hubbard, Cleveland and Chicago, has plans to build a $10 million plant in an Ohio location.

1941: The United States sets up a new Far Eastern army in the Philippines and puts Gen. Douglas MacArthur in command.

Salineville will observe its 103rd anniversary with a five-day homecoming celebration July 30. Sponsored by Saline ville volunteer fire department, the affair includes a community picnic, two parades, dance revue and church service.

“Raise our rent” is the cry of 147 families in the Westlake Terrace Gardens who are under orders to vacate their apartments because their earnings have risen above the maximum set by the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority.