Today is Tuesday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2017. There are 173 days left in the year.

Today is Tuesday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2017. There are 173 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1767: John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, is born in Braintree, Mass.

1798: The U.S. Marine Corps is formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.

1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J. (Hamilton died the next day.)

1937: American composer and pianist George Gershwin dies at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38.

1960: The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.

1989: Actor and director Laurence Olivier dies in Steyning, West Sussex, England, at age 82.

1995: The U.S. normalizes relations with Vietnam.

2007: Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who’d championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, President Lyndon Johnson, dies in Austin, Texas, at age 94.

2012: Unflinching before a skeptical NAACP crowd in Houston, Republican Mitt Romney declares he will do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama,

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: A group of landowners opposed to the building of a 14-mile-long hiking and nature trail along Neshannock Creek in Lawrence County gives county commissioners petitions containing 800 signatures.

Mayor Patrick Ungaro of Youngstown and Mayor Rastislav Jacak of Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia, meet at the B&O Station Restaurant to discuss how the sister cities can support each other.

The merger of Valley Pontiac and Cylde Cole Cadillac Jeep-Eagle is finalized and will operate as Cole Valley Motor Co. on Elm Road in Warren.

1977: Leetonia residents are asked to conserve water while village crews attempt to locate a leak that has drained an estimated 250,000 gallons from one of the village’s two reservoirs.

The Carter administration will proceed with construction of a $4-bilion uranium enrichment plant at Piketon, Ohio.

Two 21-year-old Boardman men are arrested on charges of public indecency after patrolmen spot them riding their bicycles in the nude at 1:15 a.m.

1967: Youngstown Foundry and Machine Co. gets an $8 million order from International Nickel Co.’s Huntington Allow Products Division for a combination bar and rod mill.

Katherine Fergus, 78, affectionately known as “Aunt Kate” to many South Side residents, is killed when she is struck by a car in front of her South Avenue confectionery while she was trying to remove the body of a small dog from the street.

Steel Valley Homes for Youth Inc. receives a deed for 12 acres from Gus Arp, Lowellville, for its homes for dependent and neglected boys.

1942: A threatened strike by 27 garbage truck drivers is averted when Teamsters Local 377 reaches an agreement with the Edward J. DeBartolo Co. that would provide the drivers with a 15-cent-per-ton increase.

A total of 5,000 sewing kits have been purchased by the Youngstown Send Off Committee for soldiers, sailors, and Marines as they leave Youngstown.

Helmets will be distributed to air-raid wardens of Zone 4 at the report center in Fosterville Fire Station.

Bus service on several North Side lines will be improved as a result of eliminating 315 non- essential city bus stops.