YEARS AGO FOR JULY 7

Today is Friday, July 7, the 188th day of 2017. There are 177 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1846: U.S. annexation of California is proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

1865: Four people are hanged in Washington, D.C. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the federal government.

1898: The United States annexes Hawaii.

1919: The first Transcontinental Motor Convoy, in which a U.S. Army convoy of motorized vehicles crossed the United States, departs Washington, D.C.

1946: Future President Jimmy Carter, 21, marries Rosalynn Smith, 18, in Plains, Georgia.

1969: Canada’s House of Commons gives final approval to the Official Languages Act, making French equal to English throughout the national government.

1981: President Ronald Reagan announces he is nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

2012: The Obama administration declared Afghanistan the United States’ newest “major non-NATO ally.”

2016: Micah Johnson, a black Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, opens fire on Dallas police, killing five officers.

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1992: William G. Lyden, chairman of a tax-review committee, says he believes Mahoning County officials are considering spending $4 million earmarked for a new county jail to balance a budget that got out of kilter by hirings and pay raises after commissioners imposed a half-percent sales tax in 1991.

The Pennsylvania Teachers Retirement Fund is considering a $30 million investment in the Sharon Steel Corp. Sharon Steel had a net worth of $60 million when it emerged from bankruptcy in early 1990.

The Youngstown Fire Department reports that it received 67 complaints on the Fourth of July about people setting off fireworks illegally.

1977: Six firemen and steelworkers are overcome by heat exhaustion or smoke inhalation during a six-hour battle against a stubborn fire at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works.

About 300 people apply at the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services for city jobs available under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.

The Mahoning County grand jury tours the jail, samples the food and talks to inmates before issuing a report commending Sheriff Michael Yarosh for his administration of the jail, while at the same time voicing support for the construction of a new city-county lock-up.

1967: Pittsburgh businessmen purchase the Caravan Motel 3 miles west of New Castle and will operate it as a Holiday Inn franchise.

Robert P. Cline Jr., a 20-year-old Columbiana sailor on home for leave, is killed when his car crashes in Route 14 , tossing him into a pond.

Twenty-six junior police cadets assigned to the Youngstown Police Department by the Community Action Program are working in the juvenile and traffic divisions as liaisons between police and youth.

1942: Fifty-five young people, most of them high school youth, are hired as farm workers through the Youngstown branch of the U.S. Employment Service.

Although city officials expected a deluge of complaints from bus users with the elimination of 314 bus stops, only 14 protests are filed.

The Army war show will exhibit precision corps and a mock battle in Akron to a special audience from Youngstown.