YEARS AGO FOR JULY 16

YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, July 16, the 197h day of 2017. There are 168 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

622: The Muslim Era begins with the start of the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina.

1557: Anne of Cleves, who was briefly the fourth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, dies in London at age 41.

1790: A site along the Potomac River is designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area became Washington, D.C.

1861: The Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War, begins.

1862: Flag Officer David G. Farragut becomes the first rear admiral in the United States Navy.

1935: The first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City, Okla.

1945: The United States explodes its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M.; the same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components to Tinian Island in the Marianas.

1951: The novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger is first published by Little, Brown and Co.

1957: Marine Corps Maj. John Glenn sets a transcontinental speed record by flying a Vought F8U Crusader jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds.

1964: As he accepts the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater declares that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and that “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

1969: Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.

1973: During the Senate Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly reveals the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret taping system.

1980: Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan wins the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Detroit.

1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when their single- engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, plunges into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

2002: The Irish Republican Army issues an unprecedented apology for the deaths of “noncombatants” over 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

2012: Singer Kitty Wells, whose hits such as “Making Believe” and “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” made her the first female superstar of country music, dies at 92.

2016: Republican presidential nominee-apparent Donald Trump formally introduces his running mate, Mike Pence, during an event in New York, hailing the Indiana governor as his “first choice” and “my partner in the campaign” a day after announcing the selection on Twitter.

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1992: Trumbull County commissioners will hold public hearings in preparation for placing a sales tax on the November ballot.

Zoltn Mdi, mayor of Youngstown’s sister city of Nyiregyhaza in Hungary, says during a visit here that he is struck by the peaceful spirit of Youngstown residents. “People live hard lives in Hungary, working two or three jobs and 14 hours a day; their spirit is not as peaceful,” he says.

Cleveland Browns Head Coach Bill Belichick says the failure of the team’s top three draft picks – Tommy Vardell, Patrick Rowe and Bill Johnson – to show up for training camp over contract disputes is “becoming a part of the game.”

1977: Meeting at District 1 headquarters in New Castle, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials say small, fuel-efficient cars are cutting gasoline tax receipts and are a major contributor to PennDot’s budget problems.

The Youngstown Area Urban League asks City Council to re-evaluate how it is spending $2 million in anti-recession funds and shift spending toward efforts that would create jobs and reduce unemployment.

The Mahoning County coroner rules that the death of Tom Ealy, 16 months old, of Youngs-town, was due to an accidential overdose of PCP, an animal tranquilizer.

1967: A private utility corporation to carry through multmillion- dollar development of sewage treatment and water supply utilities in central and western Mahoning County is proposed by C.E. Fisher, local Realtor.

Simco Enterprises Inc. begins laying foundations in the first phase of a $6 million apartment construction project at North and Reeves Road on Warren’s Northeast Side.

Dr. Leonard Scribner, Shaker Heights, joins Youngstown University’s chemistry department.

John Truhan of Campbell is appointed assistant chief of systems maintenance for the Federal Aviation Administration.

1942: Most of the 500 local motorists summoned to the IRS office for allegedly failing to obtain the federal auto-use tax stamps had purchased them, but failed to paste them on their windshields.

Local draft boards are under orders to continue filling their calls until new deferment regulations take effect.

Clarence Mayfield, 12, of Arlington Street, Youngstown, is in fair condition in South Side Hospital after being stabbed by a girl of his age after an argument.