YEARS AGO FOR JULY 12

Today is Wednesday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2017. There are 172 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1909: The House of Representatives joins the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax.

1967: Rioting erupts in Newark, N.J., over the police beating of a black taxi driver; 26 people are killed in the five days of violence that followed.

1984: Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announces his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate. Ferraro is the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.

2007: Presidential hopeful Barack Obama drew the loudest cheers of the eight Democratic candidates at an NAACP civil rights forum in Detroit as he assails the Bush administration’s record on race relations.

2012: Vice President Joe Biden rallies support for President Barack Obama at the NAACP’s convention in Houston

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1992: Mahoning County Auditor George J. Tablack, a leading early supporter of Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, declines an invitation to serve as a whip for the Ohio delegation during the Democratic National Convention. Tablack still supports Clinton, but believes he is wrong in not endorsing a balanced-budget amendment.

Meg Mallon sinks an 87-foot eagle to gain a tie with Betsy King and Katie Peterson-Parker going into the final round of the LPGA Phar-Mor golf tournament at Squaw Creek Country Club.

Bike Nashbar and Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District sponsor SunFest ’92, which includes a sand-sculpture contest at the Wick Recreation Area.

1977: Columbia Gas of Ohio is closing a deal for 6 billion cubic feet of out-of-state natural gas to shore up emergency supplies.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Scheuer of Boardman, parents of Sandra Scheuer, one of four students killed by Ohio National Guard fire in 1970, are among 194 people arrested during a protest on campus against the construction of a gym on the site of the shootings.

The Ohio Board of Education votes to revoke the charters of the Southington and Bristol local school districts in Trumbull County. The board has for years been advocating the consolidation of the Southington, Bristol, Farmington and Bloomfield-Mespo districts.

1967: Standard Oil Co. of Ohio increases gasoline prices 1 cent per gallon at 300 company operated stations, making the price of regular 33.9 cents per gallon.

Lance Cpl. Ronald Charles, 21, a 1965 graduate of Struthers High School, is reported killed in Vietnam.

The Mahoning Valley Vocational School at Vienna receives $452,855 in federal funds to train 175 people during the 1967-68 school year.

More than 200 children from the North and East sides will participate in Wick Park’s “Our American Heritage,” first of three shows being produced by area playground directors.

1942: About 100 Mahoning County residents will be qualified in a week to 10 days to fly the Treasury Department’s flag showing that employees pledged to invest 10 percent of their pay in war bonds.

Mayor William Spagnola calls upon Youngstown housewives to begin saving tin cans in a nationwide salvage program during the duration of the war.

Charles Dorf, 21-year-old infantile paralysis victim from near Sebring, is managing editor of Junior Journal newspaper published by patients of the Morris Memorial Hospital, Milton, W. Va.