YEARS AGO FOR JULY 21

Today is Friday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2017. There are 163 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1861: During the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run is fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.

1925: The so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)

1930: President Herbert Hoover signs an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).

1949: The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.

1961: Capt. Virgil “Gus” Grissom becomes the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the Liberty Bell 7.

1980: Draft registration begins in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.

1997: The USS Constitution, which defended the U.S. during the War of 1812, sets sail under its own power for first time in 116 years, leaving its temporary anchorage at Marblehead, Mass., for a one-hour voyage marking its 200th anniversary.

2016: Donald Trump accepts the GOP presidential nomination with a speech in which he pledges to restore the safety Americans fear they are losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from Hillary Clinton’s record of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: For the first time in nearly two decades, all five Youngstown high schools will have white principals, which could further anger the city’s black community already infuriated by the hiring of Alfred Tutela, who is white, as superintendent.

An outbreak of parvovirus is reported by veterinarians in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties, which is potentially fatal, especially to puppies and older dogs.

A domestic dispute leaves Tonya A. Wilson, 25, a mother of four, dead – Youngstown’s 28th homicide so far in 1992.

1977: The final car of about two million Chevrolet Vegas or Pontiac Astres assembled at General Motors Corp.’s Lordstown complex rolls off the line. The line will be down for retooling for four weeks and will then begin manufacturing Chevrolet Monzas, Pontiac Sunbirds, Olds Starfires and Buick Skyhawks.

A heat wave causes electrical outages, including one that caused the Wild Cat at Idora Park to come to a stop, stranding 24 riders.

A crowd of 1,000 turns out to watch the opening sessions of the 34th annual Youngstown Charity Horse Show at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

1967: A 200-bed hospital on South Avenue in Boardman that never opened is sold for $850,000 to Akron interests and will be operated as a long-term care facility known as Little Forest Medical Center.

Three off-duty junior police cadets help police disperse a crowd of about 60 that gathered downtown at the Town Burger restaurant, 335 W. Federal St., after a brief fight.

Atty. Robert Manchester of Canfield is appointed to the finance committee of Rotary International and will serve with men from Australia, Hong Kong, Argentina and the U.S.

1942: The Youngstown Board of Education adopts a 1943 budget of $3 million, about $70,000 less than the 1942 budget.

Cpl. Leslie Walters Jr., a Marine on the Aircraft carrier Yorktown, disabled during the battle of Midway, is reported safe in Honolulu.

Officials of draft boards in Mahoning County are studying new regulations.