YEARS AGO FOR JULY 24

Today is Monday, July 24, the 205th day of 2017. There are 160 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate by Scottish nobles in favor of her infant son James, who becomes King of Scotland at age 1.

1862: Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, dies at age 79 in Kinderhook, N.Y., the town where he was born in 1782.

1866: Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War.

1915: The SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 people, rolls onto its side while docked at the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago River; an estimated 844 people die in the disaster.

1952: President Harry S. Truman announces a settlement in a 53-day steel strike.

1959: During a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engages in his famous “Kitchen Debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

1974: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Richard Nixon has to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.

2002: Nine coal miners become trapped in a flooded tunnel of the Quecreek Mine in western Pennsylvania; the story ends happily 77 hours later with the rescue of all nine.

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1992: American Vending officials say a coin- operated machine that dispenses edible condoms as prizes was delivered to the lobby of the Liberty Plaza Phar-Mor store by mistake. A Girard man said his daughters age 8 and 10 received a box of condoms from the machine.

Trumbull County’s director of environmental services, Steven Yovich, says a raid uncovered 50 tires and tons of dumped demolition debris at an illegal dump behind Champion High School.

Federal Judge Thomas D. Lambros and U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. are among the speakers at a groundbreaking ceremony of Youngstown’s new $5.27 million federal courthouse.

1977: The German airline Lufthansa places a $500 million order for 11 Boeing 747s, which is expected to funnel $3 million to $5 million to RMI Corp., which has plants in Niles and Ashtabula.

Abraham Lincoln Hammonds Jr., superintendent of Warren city schools since 1975, says the school district is transitioning from turmoil to normalcy.

Dr. Michael Samuels, a 1957 Rayen School graduate and former U.S. ambassador to Sierra Leone, is appointed executive director of Third World studies at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies.

1967: Two appointments are made to the staff of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County: Madeline Margo, director of work with children, and Mrs. Robert Cady, head of the readers’ assistant department.

Vickie Valley, 11/2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Valley, misses death when a careening auto crashes into a tree near where the girl stood in her East Philadelphia Avenue front yard.

Mr. and Mrs. Axel Pearson of Bessemer, Pa., observe their golden wedding anniversary.

1942: The Hotel Pick-Ohio refuses an offer of the U.S. Conciliation Service to intervene in the strike of about 140 hotel workers called by the A.F. of L. over wages.

County Prosecutor William Ambrose and Assistant Prosecutor Harold Tetlow commend the Mahoning County May term grand jury as it returns 25 indictments.

A military drill for all auxiliary firemen will take place at South High athletic field. Instructors are Capt. Alvin Lehnerd, Fireman Victor Greenfield and Auxiliary Fireman John DeMain.