YEARS AGO FOR JULY 17

Today is Monday, July 17, the 198th day of 2017. There are 167 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1918: Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.

1936: The Spanish Civil War begins as right-wing army generals launch a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.

1955: Disneyland opens in Anaheim, Calif.

1967: After seven dates, Jimi Hendrix quits as the opening act for the Monkees after a concert at Forest Hills Stadium in New York. (Although greatly admired by the Monkees, Hendrix had received a less than enthusiastic reception from their fans.)

Jazz composer-musician John Coltrane dies in Long Island, N.Y., at age 40.

1975: An Apollo spaceship docks with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

1981: Some 114 people are killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapses during a tea dance.

1997: Woolworth Corp. announces it is closing its 400 remaining five-and-dime stores across the country, ending 117 years in business.

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1992: A week of heavy rains causes dramatic increases in reservoir levels and the Youngstown Water Department’s chief engineer says restrictions on water use could be lifted within a week.

More than 6,700 fans jam Beeghly Center for the fifth annual World Basketball League All-Star Classic that sees a dunking contest and a game won by the North, 140-135.

Austintown Township trustees accept a bid of $130,000 from Victor Marsilio for the 54-year-old fire station in the 5300 block of Mahoning Avenue.

1977: U.S. Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. begin huge, multimillion-dollar air-pollution control projects.

Warren city officials plan to appeal a recent ruling by Warren Municipal Court requiring the city to pay $18,000 in severance pay to assistant fire chief Clarence Hipple, who retired after 45 years of service.

A cloudburst, high winds, lightning and power outages cause the temporary closing of the Youngstown Charity Horse Show at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

1967: The Youngstown district’s giant rail complex is virtually at a standstill, seriously disrupting service to steel mills as 3,000 railroad workers are on strike.

Dennis Karsnak, 18, an honor graduate of Ursuline High School, drowns in Springwater Acres Lake near Pulaski, Pa., while on an outing with a Catholic youth group.

Two Youngstown firemen are promoted: Vincent Virgallito to captain and Charles Dolan to engineer.

Mary Joan Grunenwald of Crandall Avenue, Youngstown, is among postulants receiving their white Humility of Mary veils during a ceremony at Villa Maria, Pa.

1942: Youngstown will get four trolley buses from the Twin Coach Co., Kent, under a new War Production Board allowance.

Profits from a book, “America Goes to War,” on sale at the Paramount Theater, will go to the American Theater Wing to entertain servicemen in New York City.

During a picnic at the home of Mrs. John Gillespie, the Brownlee Woods Garden Club decides to make 500 kits for soldiers.

James T. Begg, who is seeking the Republican nomination for Congress, accuses the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Youngstown Vindicator of falsely reporting that he said, “don’t be too sure that the government won’t repudiate these war bonds.”