YEARS AGO FOR JULY 23

Today is Sunday, July 23, the 204th day of 2017. There are 161 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1253: Jews are expelled from Vienne, France, by order of Pope Innocent IV.

1793: Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.

1827: The first public swimming pool in the U.S. opens in Boston.

1829: William Austin Burt receives a patent for his “typographer,” a forerunner of the typewriter.

1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.

1914: Austria-Hungary presents a list of demands to Serbia after the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum leads to the outbreak of World War I.

1925: New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig hits the first of his 23 grand slams of his career.

1945: French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the pro-Axis Vichy government during World War II, goes on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison. On this date in 1951, Petain died in prison.)

1966: Napoleon XIV releases “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!”

1967: Five days of deadly rioting erupts in Detroit as an early morning police raid on a “blind pig” (an unlicensed bar) at the intersection of 12th Street and Clairmount Avenue results in a confrontation with local residents that escalates into violence that spreads into other parts of the city; 43 people, mostly blacks, are killed.

1968: Race rioting in Cleveland leaves 11 dead, including three police officers.

1977: A jury in Washington, D.C., convicts 12 Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.

2007: In the first political debate of its kind, all eight Democratic Party contenders, appearing on CNN, field questions submitted by the public on YouTube.

2011: Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

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1992: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals supports construction of a slaughterhouse a half-mile from Jackson-Milton Elementary School on the theory that children who witness the slaughtering process will be more likely to pursue a vegetarian lifestyle.

Warren police seize cocaine valued at $160,000 that was brought through a sophisticated delivery system from Hollywood, Calif., to Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Boardman Township officials say hundreds of teenagers are cruising U.S. Route 224 on weekend nights, raising renewed interest in establishing a curfew.

1977: U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-Youngstown, said he’s met with officials of the Commerce Department to complain about mismanagement in the Local Public Works program.

The federal government’s extended benefits program ends, cutting benefits to 15,000 jobless Ohioans, including 1,350 in the Youngstown area.

Volunteers in the Mahoning Valley are collecting food, clothing, bedding and other usable household items for victims of the Johnstown, Pa., flood. The death toll has risen to 49, but is expected to rise.

1967: Some 40,000 Youngstown district steelworkers and many employees of steel fabricating companies will get pay raises ranging from 6 to 12.6 cents per hour, plus additional fringe benefits.

Dr. Norman Johnson of Youngstown co-authors a study in typology of organizations in the Administrative Science Quarterly.

Enforcement of a curfew receives strong endorsement of an East Side of Youngstown group, which is also calling for parental discipline.

1942: Louis Heller Jr. gives a talk on “Know Your Garden” for the Lisbon Garden Club.

Youngstown retail markets and local packing houses are experiencing shortages of beef and pork, but lamb and veal are plentiful.

Strouss-Hirshberg’s half- yearly furniture sale has Simmons mattresses with inner spring construction for $23.85; bedroom chairs for $12.97, and textured cotton 9-by-12 rugs for $29.88.