Saturday, July 22, 2017
Today is Saturday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2017. There are 162 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1796: Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by General Moses Cleaveland.
1862:President Abraham Lincoln presents to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1934: Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”
1942: Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.
1946: The militant Zionist group Irgun blows up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.
1977: Elvis Costello’s debut album, “My Aim Is True,” is released by Stiff Records.
1992: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)
2011: Anders Breivik, a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacres 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II.
2016: Democrat Hillary Clinton tells supporters in a text message that she has chosen Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice-presidential running mate.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Phar-Mor Inc. opens its 300th store at the Cafaro company’s Ashtabula Mall 10 years after the large-volume discount chain opened its first store in Cafaro’s Great East Plaza.
Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says he wanted to lift water restrictions because rains are filling the Meander Reservoir, but he will follow a task force’s recommendation to keep the limits in effect for 10 more days.
Youngstown State University tuition will increase by $225 for the 1992-93 school year, bringing a year’s tuition for in-state students to $2,640 and for out-of-state students, $4,440.
1977: High winds tear the roof off the Love Heating & Cooling Co. at 728 S. Mill St. in New Castle, Pa.
The Taylor-Winfield Corp. is moving its induction heating line out of Warren, but Trumbull County economic-development officials, the Chamber of Commerce and the USW, which represents employees at the plant, all say they haven’t been able to find out where the plant is being moved to.
The Rev. Msgr. Benedict Franzetta, vicar for finance at the Youngstown Diocese, is elected president of the Ohio Catholic Cemetery Association.
1967: Defending Champion Bill Forney returns to stock car racing at the Canfield Speedway after an absence of a month.
Mahoning County deputies are investigating the strangulation of a pony at the home of Mrs. Donald Murdock on Oak Street Extension. Another horse was killed two months ago on nearby Coitsville-Hubbard Road.
Strouss-Hirshberg’s home furnishings sale as five-piece maple dinette sets for $133; three-piece bedroom sets for $395.
1942: Donald C. Patrick, 22, son of Dr. H.E. Patrick of Youngstown and Donald F. Boylan, 27, son of Struthers Postmaster Robert E. Boylan, pass the Ohio board examinations in pharmacy.
The Youngstown park commission will recommend to council the purchase of Wright Field, a former baseball and circus lot owned by Ohio Edison, as the site of a new swimming pool.
Mrs. James Wood, the former Janet Scott, is accepted as an officer candidate in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.