Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Today is Wednesday, July 19, the 200th day of 2017. There are 165 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1848: A pioneering women’s rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1903: The first Tour de France is won by Maurice Garin.
1941: Britain launches its “V for Victory” campaign during World War II.
1961: TWA becomes the first airline to begin showing in-flight movies on a regular basis as it presents “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.
1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics begin, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1990: President George H.W. Bush joins former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif.
2012: A controversy pitting gay rights against religious freedom begins as a cake-shop owner in Lakewood, Colo., refuses to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
2016:Republicans meeting in Cleveland nominate Donald Trump as their presidential standard-bearer.
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1992: Mahoning County Auditor George J. Tablack forecasts a budget crisis in 1993 despite the imposition in 1991 of a 0.5-percent sales tax.
The Trumbull County Board of Elections clears the way for a July 28 recall election of two Newton Falls councilmen, Terrance Mohan and James K. Langley.
Kent State University’s “Kent for Kids” program allows children from kindergarten through seventh grade to participate in classes that include foreign languages, science and sporting activities.
1977: Catherine Swan, a frequent critic of book selections in the Warren City School District, vows to continue opposing the use of “Freedom’s Frontiers,” a textbook that has been described as “unpatriotic” by some residents and veterans.
Lawrence M. Stolle, Vindicator sports editor for 27 years and a reporter of local and national sports stories for a half-century, dies at 68 in Cleveland Clinic Hospital, where he had undergone heart surgery.
A second abandoned mine shaft opens in Youngstown, this one 40 feet wide and 50 feet deep in the backyard of Mary Davis, 2714 Normandy Drive.
1967: Two young bandits stage separate robberies at the Howland Drive-In Theater and the Belmont Golf Driving Range, getting $158 from the theater and $10 from the driving range.
Construction is underway on the first phase of a $600,000 luxury apartment complex on Lake Forest in Boardman. It is called Cambridge Square.
Walter Bender, retired chairman of General Fireproofing Co. and a longtime civic leader, dies at his Elm Street home of a heart attack.
1942: Some 2,600 people fill Stambaugh Auditorium for the Breakfast Club of the Air, sponsored by the Youngstown Police Department.
Between $1.4 million and $1.6 million in back pay will be distributed to Youngstown district employees of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Republic Steel Corp. under the War Labor Board’s decision to grant a 44-cent-per-day wage increase.
Ellwood City, Pa., will celebrate its 50-year history, which has seen it grow from a racetrack resort to a thriving war production city of 12,329.