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Today is Monday, July 10, the 191st day of 2017. There are 174 days left in the year.

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A.D. 138: Roman Emperor Hadrian, responsible for the construction of opulent temples as well as the barrier in northern Britain known as Hadrian’s Wall, dies at age 62.

1890: Wyoming becomes the 44th state.

1925: Jury selection takes place in Dayton, Tenn., in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)

1951: Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War begin at Kaesong.

1967: Country singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry records her hit single “Ode to Billie Joe” at Capitol Records in Hollywood.

1991: Boris N. Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

2007: A judge in Los Angeles sentences pizza deliveryman Chester Turner to death for murdering 10 women and a fetus during the 1980s and ‘90s (Turner remains on death row).

2012: Clashing over the economy, President Barack Obama challenges Mitt Romney to join him in allowing tax hikes for rich Americans

2016: President Barack Obama, during an abbreviated visit to Spain, urges respect and restraint from Americans angered by the killing of black men by police.

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1992: Among the casualties as Youngstown State University deals with a $4.5 million cut in state funding are the substance abuse office, Women’s Resource Center, the Neon yearbook and Penguin Review literary magazine and night shuttle services.

Angry Lake Milton residents oppose plans for a Wilhob Meats processing plant despite assurances from the company that it will produce no more noise or smell than any other farming operation.

Six Liberty Township churches have been burglarized over a one month period: Church Hill United Methodist, Liberty Baptist (twice), New Life Lutheran, United Methodist, Church of Latter-day Saints and Liberty Presbyterian.

1977: National Guard trucks begin removing 52 years of accumulated materials from the Christy Armory on West Rayen Avenue to the Guard’s new building on Victoria Road in Austintown.

A Parma Heights energy firm prevents a plan for an $8 million project to convert Youngstown and Warren’s garbage into steam.

The home built in the 1920s by the late Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden Jr., distinguished by its colonial design, is being moved to save it from the wrecker’s ball. It was loaded on a truck for the trip from 4816 Market Street to its new location, 129 Forest Hill Road.

1967: Gerard Bogdon of Struthers topples the boy who eliminated him in last year’s Class B final and coasts to a win in Youngstown’s Seventh Soap Box Derby.

The Struthers Rotary Club will host a luncheon at the United Presbyterian Church for 35 American Field Service students who are headed to their home countries.

Charles Baer is appointed superintendent of the electric pipe mills at Republic Steel Corp.’s Youngstown District steel plant, succeeding the late E.L. Kline.

1942: Thirty representatives of the nation’s three armed services, some veterans of battles with the Japanese, visit Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. plants here to see the men helping make the machines, guns and ammunition.

More than 1.5 million pounds of rubber finally collected in Mahoning County as the drive closes, according to Petroleum Industry.

Donald Koma, former faculty athletic manager at Struthers High School, named assistant to Coach Joe Horn at Rayen School in football and basketball.