YEARS AGO FOR JULY 2

Today is Sunday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2017. There are 182 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1776: The Continental Congress passes a resolution saying that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”

1867: President James A. Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield would die the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)

1881: President James A. Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield would die the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)

1892: The Populist Party (also known as the People’s Party) opens its first national convention in Omaha, Neb.

1917: Rioting erupts in East St. Louis, Ill., as white mobs attack black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly blacks, are believed to have died in the violence.

1926: United States Army Air Corps is created.

1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator.

1955: “The Lawrence Welk Show” premieres on ABC-TV under its original title, “The Dodge Dancing Party.”

1961: Author Ernest Hemingway shoots himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress.

1977: Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov, 78, dies in Montreux, Switzerland.

1987: Eighteen Mexican immigrants are found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in what authorities called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man survived.

1997: Academy Award-winning actor James Stewart dies in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 89.

2007: President George W. Bush commutes the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him a 21/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case.

Russian President Vladimir Putin concludes his visit to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he’d held talks with President Bush.

Opera singer Beverly Sills dies in New York at age 78.

2012: Jim Yong Kim begins his new job as president of the World Bank, promising to immediately focus on helping poor countries navigate a fragile global economy.

The U.S. Justice Department says British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion in fines for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs taken by millions of people.

Former NBC President Julian Goodman, 90, dies in Juno Beach, Fla.

2016: Hillary Clinton is voluntarily interviewed for 31/2 hours by the FBI at the agency’s Washington headquarters about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, 87, dies in New York.

Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino, 77, dies in Beverly Hills, Calif.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Columbiana County Sheriff Richard J. Koffel has begun wearing a uniform to work, trading the suit and tie he’s been wearing since 1980 for the same black shirt and gray trousers worn by his deputies.

Trumbull County prosecutors say a 35-year-old Southington man facing jail time on two counts of rape of a minor faked his suicide by leaving his car and a note on the shores of Lake Erie, but was apprehended by custom agents at the Canadian border.

Miffed by criticism from Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas Carney that Youngstown is holding up implementation of a 911 emergency phone system, six of seven councilmen say they will place the issue before city voters, which will take a year.

1977: A number of dignitaries are on hand for the dedication of the new Youngstown Post Office to the late Congressman Michael J. Kirwan. A photograph of Kirwan visiting President John F. Kennedy at the White House will be hung there.

A Trumbull County grand jury indicts John Tidwell, formerly of Champion, for the July 1973 murder of industrialist C. Walter Holm- quist and his wife Dorothy in their Cortland home.

Youngstown Fire Chief George Panno warns residents that setting off fireworks by private individuals is illegal in Ohio and that Youngstown will enforce the law vigorously on and around the Fourth of July.

1967: Heavy storms lash the Youngstown area, raising the Mahoning River’s level by a foot.

Herman Bonchek of Euclid, who worked for the Youngstown Telegram and the Cleveland city administration dies of a heart attack in Cleveland.

Seven area Boy Scouts will take part in the 12th annual World Jamboree at Farragut State Park, Idaho: Russell Mikos, Percy Squire, Charles Hess, William McDonough, John Post, Bradford Price and Eric Weinberg.

1942: In cooperation with other retailers throughout the United States, most Youngstown stores hold special programs and campaigns to boost the sale of war bonds and stamps.

Municipal Judge Peter Mulholland raises his total of traffic fixes to 1,873 for the first six months of 1942 by taking care of 262 during June.

The Garden Forum’s colored pictures of Youngstown gardens entertain the Garden Club when Mrs. H.R. Hooper and Mrs. Paul Haber are co-hostesses.